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This is an excellent thread. When I was a girl we had 2 children come to our door ostenisbly selling "fund raising" tickets for a "youth group." It was a weekend night and it was dark out. My mother asked the children a lot of questions, reasonable ones like, where are you from, where are your parents, etc...
She got extremely vague answers from the children, so she excused herself to go get her pocketbook. While she was away she called the police.
The police found that these children were being coerced into selling these tickets by a group of young men whom they knew from their neighborhood. The children's parents thought that they were playing basketball at the local Catholic Church when in fact these young men were picking them up at Church and threatening them making them sell tickets and candies bars in different towns.
The young men were eventually arrested.
Many, many school districts have rules against using children for solicitation of any kind. Even though schools and many after school programs are sorely under-funded to use children to fundraise is simply wrong.
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