I'm as disgusted as you are on the way the public schools drain my bank account. After the school supplies comes the begging /fund raising. Yearbooks sold for twice their value, school spirit t-shirts that the kids are encouraged to always wear on Friday, Fundraiser selling cookie dough, carnival and all the tickets needed to play, holiday party for the classroom can you send 5.00, teacher appreciation week another 5.00 please , student council is having a fund raiser to send money to someone needy, art class is selling my kids art on coffee cups. At least once a month they want something more from me than the supplies and lunch money. Multiply that by three kids and it takes a part time job just to keep up with it all! I can not believe they asked you to send in the UPC codes so they could get the rebates! Have they not heard of the Boxtops for Education program run by General Mills? Collect those boxtops off the products (there are hundreds of products with them) and send them to General Mills who then sends you a dime for every single one of them. I can't send that boxtop to General Mills and get anything for it but the school can. I think I'd keep my UPC rebates and tell the school about this totally legal program with boxtops!