On my local Student Council at high school, we are required to pay a certain fee monthly.
But here is my question.
If we are doing so much service for the community and the school, why do we have to pay a ten dollar fee monthly? I think it is ridiculous. I am doing every thing I can for the student council, and they give back by reminding me daily that I have forgotten my fees to pay. You do the math. August through December and ten dollars per month is fifty dollars, just to be in Student Council. Then it happens the next semester again. So, overall, I am paying one hundred dollars to be in student council. Where is this fair? We are supposed to be giving all of our service to the school, but I do not think it is necessary to make us pay those fees, especially when I am already paying off so many other things, that it is hard to keep up with all the fees, and I do not need the student council fee on top of all of that. Maybe I am just being irrational, but I do not believe they needed to implement this new rule. If I am going to put forth so much academic service, I believe they are the ones debted to us, not us to them, because without us, there would not be a student council, and they want to kick members out by Christmas if they have not paid their fees. Now THAT is ridiculous. Does anyone agree with me on this topic?
Thanks for reading!
Interesting.
My Student Council doesn't pay such fees, but just recently my girlfriend and I volunteered at a charity that made us pay $5. I understand in the case of fundraisers, but not charities.
However, on the other side, my school demands senior fees like a typical high school, but the Studen Council is demanding each of us pay $50 more towards prom. We already have a highschool fundraiser in progress, and my lessthan500, small class is the frist graduating class from my highschool, but doesn't $50 go towards a sing ticket, anyhow?
Woah, hold on, you have to pay ten dollars a month to be on Student Council? There's a legality issue in there, you can't do that, if you're elected to a council and you're told you need to pay money to be on it there's something wrong. I'd talk to the teacher organizing this because there has to be some rational explination, snacks and sodas or lunch maybe? Though if your highschool is like mine it's about ten dollars a week for lunch...I'm not sure...that's very odd. I think about things like this all the time, why do you have to pay a sitting fee for your senior pictures and why pay fifteen dollars for a parking sticker? All it does is allow you to park on school grounds, it doesn't cover the cost for paying for insurance or the people that watch the lot.
Anyway, I would talk to someone and if you have to go to the principal I would, that doesn't sound right at all and if there's no practical use for the money, that's extortion and there needs to be some legal action taken against the school board.
Alexa
Well, my Student Council advisor says that they money goes toward student council incase we have a 'slump' at some point during the school year. I still believe it is absolutely ridiculous, and I made a motion to have fees cancelled for atleast the months of November and December, because we were having to buy candy for the Halloween Trunk or Treat that we hosted, plus all the cans for janitorial services and for the poor, and some Christmas stuff that we are doing. And we all had to buy all of these things, then we have to worry about paying our monthly fees, it is a little hard for those who do not have a lot of money. Therefore, I brought that point up in an Executive Meeting a half hour before regular meeting started. There were a couple people in favor of the fees idea, but the majority was against it. It's ridiculous!