Who is Becca Howard (and why is she so mad at Kathryn Beigh)?

K-SOFA Means Reading This and Doing an Assignment Afterwards

The following letter was written to a fundraiser. Please choose a target and write one yourself on the back of this letter

Dear Kathryn Beich:

My name is Rebecca Marie Howard; I am 12 years old and live in Nashua New Hampshire. Today my class at Sunset Heights Elementary read a book called If the World Were A Village. It touched my whole class including myself and taught us how lucky people in America are compared to other countries in the world. Afterward we had a discussion and all of us realized that the people of the U.S. aren’t always thankful for what we have. We waste lots of food, paper and other valuable products that countries in poverty would be happy to have.

Soon after reading this powerful book, we were handed a flyer saying our PTO was holding a Kathryn Beich fundraiser to raise money for our school. I was disgusted and outraged to find out that we were to sell chocolate rabbits for $5.00 each. It did not seem right to me to be spending so much money on chocolate bunnies.

I appreciate all you do for schools across the nation, but I do not appreciate having you sell chocolate for such a high price when people are starving in Africa, overpopulation in China, radiation in Russia and terror in Iraq. These people have nothing, while your company is cheating people out of their money. Five dollars for chocolate? That’s outrageous!

Another reason I am appalled at the products your company makes is that they are insensitive to other religions. At my school there are many children from different countries who practice different religions and celebrate different holidays. I do not think that these kids would like to go around selling chocolate Easter bunnies. No, there was nothing on the flyer that said that these rabbits were Easter rabbits, but you and I both know that in the spring chocolate rabbits are usually considered Easter treats. If you do keep on selling these chocolates (which I hope you do not) please be respectful to other religions.

All I ask is that next time the Kathryn Beich company sells a fundraising product, please make sure it has some value and is not insensitive of other religions or you should be sure that you’ll be hearing from me again and I’ll be trying to drive you out of business. I’d also like to ask whoever is reading this letter to go and read the book, If the World Were a Village and hopefully you will be just as moved as I was. Thank you for being so kind as to listen to a 6th grade girl complain about your company, I just wanted to get my point across.

Sincerely,


Becca Howard