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Adopted: 12/18/2006                                                                                                                                                                                                             

School District of Prairie Farm

Public Sales or Solicitations

No organization or individual shall use school property and/or school facilities for sales or solicitations without first obtaining approval of the District Administrator or his/herdesignee.

No school district employee may receive for his or her personal benefit anything of value from any person other than his or her employing school district to sell, promote the sale of or act as an agent or solicitor for the sale of any goods or services to any public school pupil while on the property of the school district or at an activity of the school district. Examples of selling, soliciting or promoting the sale of goods or services include student trips chaperoned by teachers, athletic camps run by coaches who receive a share of the registration fees, band instruments leased from a store in which the band instructor has a

pecuniary interest, book sales to students that result in teachers benefiting personally, etc.

An employee may not gain any benefit from requesting students to buy books or to join a book club. All incentives or “points” garnered by the sale of the books must go directly to the school and not to any individual teacher.

A school district employee may solicit the school board to initiate or approve a program or activity that will provide him or her a personal benefit. If the school district is sponsoring an event as part of its regular curriculum, the district can provide an employee with some personal benefit as long as the value of the benefit comes from the school district, even though a third party may be involved.

No contributions of money for local, state, national or international causes or

philanthropies shall be solicited from students or employees, nor shall any collections be made in the schools except those which are recommended by the building principal and approved by the Board of Education or District Administrator.

Collections thus approved shall be so conducted as to minimize the amount of school time required and to emphasize the educational and civic values of individual participation. Any approved collection or drive shall be subject to review annually.

Contributions shall be made on a purely voluntary basis.

Ticket selling in the schools for events which are not school-sponsored or are not

beneficial to the school/school district is prohibited, except as authorized by the District Administrator.

LEGAL REF.: Section 118.12 Wisconsin Statutes