That doesn’t say anything about a Uber style bake sale lose money on every order scheme. PTAs accept donations.
I agree with your overall premise, there was no need to make up a story around it.
I agree with your overall premise, there was no need to make up a story around it.
A more grounded example of this behavior is well off parents buying their child's quota of items that are meant to be sold door to door out of a catalog to raise money. I don't know the name of this type of fundraising but this is a behavior I have witnessed many times. Parents buying overpriced crap out of a catalog so that their kid gets the extra credit and other perks offered by the school in exchange for this.