If you have a child in school you've probably made cupcakes or cookies for a bake sale, sold wrapping paper or chocolate bars to your family and co-workers, or ran, walked or swam in a 'thon.' One school in Texas is letting parents off the hook from all fundraising activities in hilarious PTA letter that's gone viral.

Dee Wise Heinz, mother of three, posted the letter her 12 year-old daughter brought home on her Facebook page, that lets parents donate cash instead of taking part in any school fundraising actives. 'My first thought was, ‘A fundraiser already?’ But after reading it, my husband and I got such a chuckle out of it and we thought it was so refreshing," Heinz tells ABC News.

Instead of baking cupcakes parents are given the option to donate $15, the amount spent to make them. $25 gets them out of selling anything.

The most creative option: "I really wouldn't have helped anyway, so here is $100 to forget my name."

Heinz says “I don’t want to diminish the value of fundraisers, but time is a valuable resource also, so I appreciated having the option. With three kids, there’s never just one fundraiser and they’re never just that simple, so it does take a lot more time than you realize.”

The hilarious PTA form has been shared over a quarter of million times on Facebook.

I don't know about you but I'd pay whatever they asked to not have to bake, walk, run, swim, sell or anything else that takes valuable time I can't afford.

Would you participate with your time or you check book?


I love that our school PTA has a great sense of humor. This form came home with our 7th grader yesterday. 󾌴

Posted by Dee Wise Heinz on Tuesday, August 25, 2015


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