Help Hillside School Be A Winner!

Hillside Elementary School

School funding is all over the news these days.  Most of the news involves there not being enough funding to go around.  Here in the West Shore School District our taxes were raised for the 2012-2013 school year.  In Cumberland County, the school taxes went up 3.33%, while our York County neighbors had theirs raised 4.58%.  We hear about other districts cutting sports and kindergarten.  We are lucky that has not happened in our schools, yet.

As taxes go up, parents are being to asked to chip in for their children to be able to participate in sports and other activities.   West Shore School District has recently enacted an activity fees for middle and high school.  These fees range from $50 - $200, to cover sports, band, JROTC and more.  To find out more about the West Shore School District's activity fee, click here.

We seem to pay more and more, and get less and less for our tax dollars.  Schools are always looking for new ways to raise money.  There are the usual fundraisers, but sometimes we need something different.

So, it's summer, and school's out, why am I writing about school funding?  Our town's public elementary school, Hillside, is trying something new.  Avery Office Products has a promotion called "Avery Give Back to Schools."  Hillside is trying to win this promotion, but they need the entire community to get behind them and vote.  To win this promotion, they need community members to go to the Avery Give Back to Schools Website, login with your Facebook ID or register for a website ID.  After logging in, find Hillside by searching the name or zip code 17070.  You will click to vote, then verify your vote.  It's simple and it takes less than a minute.  Unfortunately, one vote on one day, won't be enough.  They need you to vote every day between now and September 14.  Please bookmark the Avery site, and when you check your email, or Facebook page, take a minute to vote for Hillside.  I will keep a link here on this page so you can easily connect with the promotion.

What will Hillside win?  If they are among the top 5 vote getters, they will receive $10,000 worth of Avery School Supplies, $1,000 worth of gift cards, and 25,000 Box Tops for Education coupons.   25 runner up schools win 10,000 Box Tops for Education coupons.  For just participating in the promotion, all schools have a chance of winning one of 10 prizes of 5,000 worth of Box Tops for Education coupons.

I know if we can get our community behind Hillside, they can be one of those top 5 winners.  Currently Hillside ranks in the 260's out of approximately 16,000 schools.  Thank you for helping Hillside be a winner!

Click here to vote for Hillside. 

PS:  Just learned you can vote more than once, if you vote for two different schools, so make sure you vote for New Cumberland Middle School, too!