NBR - Help me brainstorm ideas

ErikaLynn75

Hey ladies! This is totally unrelated to the board, but I am dealing with an issue at work, and could really use some new ideas. I'm at a total loss here...

I'm a math teacher, and moderator for Math Club. This year, for Pi Day our math club students wanted to do a fundraiser that involved letting students "pie" their math teacher in the face. Kids would buy raffle tickets, and each math teacher would draw a ticket from the jug of students who want to pie them to determine who would get to throw it. The math department was totally on board. But our activities director says this "diminishes the human dignity" of the teachers. She suggested we do a "pie walk" instead. *yawn* 

I feel terrible for the student who has organized it, because she's already put a lot of work into this, and she just got totally shot down.

The thing is, it's a Catholic school, and these poor kids are constantly being asked for money beyond their tuition (for club t-shirts, dues/fees, charity donations, etc) so there has to be some serious incentive to get them to donate money to math club. Winning a pie is not going to cut it. Throwing a pie at your math teacher probably would. 

Can anyone think of a way we could modify our fundraiser to make it not so offensive [to this one woman]? Or anything else pi/pie related that we could do? 

yvanehtnioj

LOL at the suggestion of having a Pie Walk. Beyond that, I got nothin.

skyrockets

We do the pie throw at my school but teacher volunteers get to stand behind a trifold so only their face gets it. Pie eating contest? Some kind of game involving a circle?

ErikaLynn75

Ugh... I'm so bummed about this. We really need it to be a fundraising event, and I just don't think we're going to get kids to pay a buck to participate in a game or a contest. Plus it's an all girls school, so I just don't think there will be much interest in a pie eating contest. Oh well... thanks for the suggestions, gals.

Kmbaybay

Is the activities director aware that the teachers are on board?

MamaLlama14

We did something similar.  Here's what ours was like:  We made a board with the names and photos of the teachers willing to participate.  During lunch, kids made a donation to place their vote for which teacher(s) they wanted to see pied the most.  They collected donations/votes for about a week.

Then on the last day, during 9th period, the principal announced the teachers who received the top 3 votes.  The other volunteer teachers who didn't HAVE to get pied were the ones who then did the throwing (on the stage in the auditorium, kids there watching).  We used pie tins with whipped cream only- not real pies.  That way none of the kids could accidentally (or purposely) hurt a teacher, and we didn't have to worry about them slipping and falling on whipped cream.

ErikaLynn75

Kmbaybay said:

Is the activities director aware that the teachers are on board?

Yeah, she knows. She just thinks it sends the wrong message, since "we have a Respect for Life Club and we work so hard to build up respect for people, and this just un-does all of that." The students volunteered to bake or buy pies for each teacher to take home after they get pied, so we were all totally willing. I guess that means a pie is more valuable to me than my own dignity... haha