Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

We have been doing some fundraising this summer for our homeschool Science Olympiad team. The funds will be used to send several moms’ to SO training in October, for the purchase of SO study materials, and hopefully building materials. Some weeks ago we went out and purchased Italian Ice — quite expensive—-and sold it out front of one of our SO member’s store. The traffic was heavy but we sold little.

Then two of our moms had an idea on a very hot weekday — let’s just go and give away free freezer pops at the local WaWa and have a donation can sitting there. They already had permission from the store to stand outside the store and collect money. The results were favorable so yesterday was our second collection day, and we grossed a tidy sum in a couple hours.

Sometimes we gave away just freezer pops, and sometimes the person just wanted to give a donation, and sometimes both. But then there were the times that we shared information about Science Olympiad and what kids do in SO, and it was fabulous to watch folks faces light up when they learned what the kids do. I heard “Amazing” so often yesterday from strangers as they saw and heard about SO. What a great way to spend a few hours on a Saturday. We only had one person who was screaming at us as to how we were destroying society by hs’ing our kids and taking salaries away from PS teachers since our kids weren’t in school. Uninformed folks—our taxes still go to the school and we still have to pay for the school books our kids use. And that doesn’t count the salaries we all give up by staying home. Thankfully the store started to power wash the side of their building during his rant so allot of it was drowned out. But he was the only one, among hundreds of supportive folks.