FINALLY – A PTO Letter That GETS IT! – Hilarious Letter Goes Viral For Cutting The Crap

Not every parent has time to go door-to-door selling cookie dough and candles, or bake 150 adorably decorated cupcakes to fundraise for their kids’ school activities

Most parents, DO, however, know how it feels to have to awkwardly bow out, WISHING they could just throw a couple of bucks at the “cause” to stop feeling guilty about not being the perfect Suzy Homemaker.

WEEEELL one Alabama school’s PTO TOTALLY GETS IT… So they came up with the PERFECT fundraiser.

“The Opt-Out Fundraiser.”

Slow clap for this PTO, folks. This is BRILLIANT.

BAHAHAHAHAHA.

If you don’t get it, you must just be an absolutely peerrrrrfect, totally not busy individual who has their entire life together, ALWAYS. With all due respect, GET OUT.

JUST KIDDING…I’m just jealous. How do you do it?

According to Fox News:

An Alabama mom is applauding her 16-year-old daughter’s high school for taking a unique approach to student fundraising this year — asking for donations directly instead of forcing parents and children to participate in bake sales, sell products or spend hours making cold calls.

Because let’s face it… most of the time you end up participating, it’s purely out of guilt.

Briana Leggett Woods, a mother of two from Auburn, was preparing for another stressful year of “brown envelopes, emails and Sign Up Genius notices” when she returned from her tenth-grade daughter’s “Back to School Night.” But as the mom shuffled through all of Auburn High School’s orientation papers, one form, in particular, caught her eye.

“Don’t want to sell anything, bake anything, buy anything or generally avoid fundraising of any kind? We feel the same way!!” the form, titled the “opt out” fundraiser, read.

Woods called the honest note a “breath of fresh air.”

Because who WOULDN’T like a little less guilt-tripping?

“My very first thought was, ‘Someone finally gets it. Sign me up!’ I was ecstatic to see this idea presented in such a humorous way,” Woods wrote on the popular blogging site Love What Matters.

The mom, who works as a part-time nurse between juggling the busy schedules of an eighth-grader and high school sophomore, admitted she often skipped fundraising events anyway and cut a check instead.

“Whether you are a stay at home parent or work full time outside the home, life is full. The days are full. And I don’t want to spend any of my precious spare moments selling candles or tubs of cookie dough to people who don’t really want to buy that stuff anyway,” Woods explained. “I want 100% of my efforts to go directly to my kids’ schools.”

It’s not that parents don’t want to participate… it’s that many don’t really have the time, or even the CAPACITY to do so.

This makes them feel a little less sh*tty about it.

Auburn High School Parent Teacher Organization president Emmy Sorrells confirmed to Opelika Auburn News the hilarious fundraising option is real.

“[I] was looking for a way to do a no-pressure, totally tongue-in-cheek and humorous way to get more financial involvement” in the organization, Sorrells told the newspaper.

Her efforts clearly paid off. The letter she drafted, which prompts parents or guardians to make a $15, $25 or $50 or more donation, went viral after Woods posted about it on Facebook. As of August 7, the image has been shared more than 35,000 times and received hundreds of responses.

BUSY MOMS AND DADS TOTALLY GET IT.

So… if YOUR kid’s school sent this out… would you cut them a check?