To earn cash back for their prom ticket, seniors can sell boxes of chocolate until Feb. 28.
“I just go around with boxes in my hand and people walk up to me,” senior Jacky Dao said. “It’s really great if you want to sell bars fast.”
Seniors are hosting a fundraiser with World’s Finest Chocolate until the end of the month. Every box contains 30 bars of chocolate that sell for $2 each. The total value of a sold box is $60.
“Trying to sell some of them, like the almond, is a challenge,” Dao said. “Seniors buy up all the wafers and freshmen don’t really like the almond bars, so they just sit there.”
In previous years, the price per bar was $1. Starting this year, the price has increased to $2 per bar. Among students and staff, there have been differing opinions of this change.
“We’ve been joking around that inflation got to the bars,” English teacher Grace Schuetze said. “I’ll cough up the $2, even if I’m probably getting less chocolate per bar.”
Students can pick up boxes from Ms. June’s room in U-13. For every box a senior sells, their prom ticket price decreases by $10. To incentivize seniors to sell what they have, boxes that are not completely sold will result in a $60 fine per unsold box.
“Someone once left a box on a table in one of my classes so he could passively sell bars and clear a box,” junior Austin Davis said. “It was a pretty creative way to sell it all.”
Prom tickets will cost $85 per ticket March 31 to April 3. The price will increase to $95 each April 7 to April 18. The final price will be $105 each April 21 to May 2. Seniors are encouraged to purchase their tickets before the price raises.
“I see people go through boxes and they’re motivated by earning money back on their ticket,” Schuetze said. “It makes it feel a little more worthwhile if you work for it because I don’t think anyone wants to spend upwards of $80-$90 on a prom ticket.”
WFC representatives will visit during advisory and all lunches April 1-2 to reimburse seniors for selling boxes on time. Any student that doesn’t meet with the representatives will forfeit their earnings.
“I know some teachers get really annoyed when people knock on the door and ask to sell in the middle of class, but it hasn’t really been that much of a problem,” Schuetze said. “I think the seniors have been pretty respectful about it this year.”
