The junior ASB class is currently $1300 in debt. This fund deficit has caused concern among many students that ASB may not be able to afford Junior Prom. The Prom is happening, but the class of 2020 went into debt to pay for it, leaving ASB leaders scrambling to come up with funds for next year’s activities.
ASB Treasurer Nicole Fong, Secretary Mackenzie Crall, and President Adelina Hernandez all pointed out that the lack of funding stems from a deeper problem in the ASB and HISP class schedules, which result in a lack of sophomore representation.
“Because all HISP sophomores have a mandatory zero period, we have a very small number of sophomores in ASB every year—this year we have about six to eight sophomores,” said Fong. “This is really bad for all classes, but especially sophomores, because that is when fundraising for Junior Prom needs to happen.”
This dilemma has caused significant debt for the class of 2020. “Freshmen year, there were a good amount of people in the 2020 [ASB] class, but sophomore year—when the HISP students have a zero period—there was a total of three sophomores in the class, and to ask three people to fundraise for the entire class is ridiculous,” said Crall.
In order to fill this funding void, ASB has begun to scramble to raise money.
“The junior class has had a lot fundraising ideas and plans. The flower grams were a huge success, Lisi Long is currently heading the planning of a bake sale, we had our yard sale and bake sale in December, and we are planning Cycle Life and Quickly fundraisers,” said Fong. “At the rate we are going right now, I have high hopes that we will be able to repay our debt.”
President Hernandez provided an update for the status of the ASB treasury. “We recently did the Valentine’s Day flower delivery, which brought in around $300. However, we are still in debt by $1300.”
The ASB class of 2020 is not only concerned about paying off debt and successfully throwing a Junior Prom. “Here’s the thing, we are having a Junior Prom. But it is going to be hard to pull of all of the events that will be happening in our senior year such as our senior gift and our ball,” said Secretary Crall.
“In order to pay off our debt and have money for all of our senior activities, we need a lot of people to go to this prom! High attendance means high ticket sales, which gives us more money to spend on our senior activities!” said Treasurer Fong.
3 replies on “Junior Class Scrambles To Pull Themselves Out Of Debt Before Senior Year”
Is it just the ASB that can help with fundraising? I know as a freshman parent it is very hard to look on the website to find information about fundraisers, tournament times that we would love to go watch and support.
When we look at the calendar there is nothing on it about spirit days, fundraisers, games, or any other happenings for the school. I can say that if I want to know when Valentines day is or the end of the semester or winter/spring breaks are I can look at the calendar and they are listed. Please put notifications up on the website. Maybe I am not going to the page I need to see for this information but if that is so then the information is buried to far down.
I guess what I am saying is that I will help out any way I can. Please make the information available on the CKM page or a direct link from the home page to the ASB page.
Thank you for your comment. We’d like to let you know that this is the website for an entirely student-run newspaper. We do not have control over McClatchy’s official website or ASB page. https://ckm.scusd.edu is the official school website. ASB also runs active social media accounts, @officialckmlion on Twitter and Instagram, where they recently posted a GoFundMe to help raise money for the junior class.
Thank you for explaining how this problem occurred. The GoFundMe page doesn’t explain how the lack of representation and organization due to zero period caused the deficit. You would raise ALOT more if you explained it in more detail s saying the class deserves to go (they do!). It reads like SSB miss managed and picked a venue too expensive using up senior funds. Saying their was no representation last year is a biggy. And where was your advisor??