Fund Raising in Schools

The primary school and the dance school are trying to raise money by selling Cadbury Freddo chocolates. Children whose parents agree to sell the chocolates ($1 each) will have to bring home at least one box of 50 chocolates, which then they sell to raise funds. The child who sells most chocolates gets a prize. But if a child cannot sell all the chocolates (after his/her parents alienate colleagues, neighbors and friends with desperate pledges to buy "some" chocolates), for safety regulations, none of the unsold chocolates can be returned to school. Parents can send a decline to school, opting not to have children pick chocolates for the fund raising (and I did, because I would rather donate some cash to the school than be forced to deal with 50 x 200 calories). I know schools all around the world need funds and depend on such fund raising, but do they really have to sell chocolates for this? It is known that kids should not be eating too much chocolate and should not be tempted with such sugar loaded sweets. School health programs promote these ideas themselves. Of course, schools "believe" that the chocolates will be sold to others and very few will decay the school children's teeth, but we all know, especially when none of the unsold chocolates can be returned to school, that the kids will buy and eat most of the chocolates themselves. I admired the school for doing a recent fund raising with flower bulbs, which were preordered and nobody had to be stuck with loads of unsold bulbs. And because I said flowers, here are some amazing frangipani (aka plumeria in the US) from the Botanical Garden in Darwin (Northern Territory).