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AI Summary
- Schools fundraise through students selling wrapping paper and chocolate, turning kids into salespeople to fund field trips and school activities—a bizarre but entrenched tradition
- Companies running school fundraisers deploy tactical strategies to win school business, while Villacorta Elementary in California fights to raise money for a school-wide field trip after three years without one
- The episode reveals how school fundraising is surprisingly strategic and examines why schools rely on this unusual model to generate revenue