Change Challenge Update #1
Fourth grade out to an early lead, but third grade isn't too far back.
Your Johnson Learning Leopards have gotten the 2023 Change Challenge Fundraiser off to a roaring start. (Google assures me that leopards do, indeed, roar.) As expected, the fourth grade has raced to the front of the pack, but this contest has only just begun. Here’s the leaderboard as of Wednesday evening.
We would also like to clarify the rules of the game a bit. The basics are quite simple: you give your child some money, and they put that money in the large jugs inside the front door of the school. The PTO then turns that money into teacher reimbursements or classroom snacks, or we use it to help lower the cost of student field trips, as we recently did for the kindergartner’s upcoming trip to Carter Mountain. Sometimes—if the upstairs fridge is on the fritz and the downstairs fridge appears to belong in a museum of Soviet-era home conveniences that only made life more despairing—we even get to buy cool stuff like new refrigerators for the teachers’ lounges.
Here’s the clarification: your kid should be adding nickels, dimes, quarters, and any paper money to their grade’s jug. (Though this is the Change Challenge, we have very shrewdly decided to also accept paper currency in any denomination you see fit to part with.) Each silver coin and dollar bill is worth a point total that reflects how many cents it contains—so a nickel is 5 points, a quarter is 25 points, and a ten dollar bill is 1,000 points. Pennies, on the other hand, should be added to the jugs of the other grades, because each penny counts as negative one point.
The Change Challenge is reliably one of our most successful fundraisers of the year. We very much appreciate every single (occasionally gooey, slimy, and/or sticky) cent that makes its way into those jugs. We’re off to a great start already—please keep the coins, and assorted paper currency, coming!
Oh, and don’t forget about our ongoing Krispy Kreme fundraiser! They make it very easy to order, and a full fifty percent of your purchase price comes right back to the PTO. Just follow this link to order. Thanks!