• moshankey@lemmy.world
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    Gosh I miss book fairs. I think I became worse when I became a teacher. And discount made it so much harder to refuse.

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      My teacher weaponized his discount. In the grade school I was at you stayed with the same teacher for 1-6 grade, and my teacher kept a classroom library. And every year when the book fair came around, every kid that kept their grades at the B line or higher got to bring him one book that he would buy and add to the collection.

      My class ended up makin that man put up two new bookshelves over those six years.

      • 93maddie94@lemmy.zip
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        Yes, it’s $5 off $20 or more. But it’s not out of the kindness of Scholastic’s heart. It comes out of your book fair profit, so the money is taken out of the fundraising amount for the school.