<p>I love Key Club. It's my favorite club at my school. I'm so excited - I just got elected Vice President for next year. In my school, it's the most fun, the most inclusive, the most caring. We run a dance, run a food drive, have a Relay for Life team, do pancake breakfasts.... DCON... so much fun. Any other devoted Key Clubbers out there on CC?</p>
<p>Really? At my school it’s a complete joke and no one takes it seriously. </p>
<p>But your club sounds fun, so congratulations on being VP.</p>
<p>i <3 key club! D31 Lt. Governor ;DD</p>
<p>All Key Club does is hold fundraisers and dumb events like the pancake breakfast things. I never see them doing actual volunteer work even with their 200 members. And the most prominent members just go to the “fun” events and stuff.</p>
<p>@EntropyRising and fairy_dreams:</p>
<p>Are you serious? That’s a real shame - I’m founding officer/Events Coordinator at my high school’s Key Club, and I try to make sure there’s at least three-four service events a month, on top of regular fun events. It’s a tough job, but I take my officer position seriously, along with the rest of my colleagues, but it pays off really well.</p>
<p>^Hmm, that’s nice to hear. </p>
<p>I originally joined, but then all the officers told me that they were only doing it for college. And the treasurer openly flames the club and never goes to the meetings. It’s rather ridiculed at our school. </p>
<p>However, there are other altruistic clubs at our school that actually do things beneficial. Key Club just didn’t work out :/</p>
<p>Yeah, everyone at my school does it for college or for going to events like Fall Rally and DCON. It seems all they do is hold events to raise money. No one ridicules ours but I think that comes later.</p>
<p>I hate Key Club. There’s no direct community service. All they do is, like EntropyRising said, fundraisers. From my friends who also hate it, they told me that Key Club members can get community service while having fun at the amusement park.</p>
<p>Rotary Interact > Key Club anyone?</p>
<p>Key Club is so corrupt at my school. They give out hours just for going to the meetings.</p>
<p>Wow. There’s definitely Key Club hate around here. However, it’s extremely different at my school… Entropy Rising - did you ever consider that they actually are volunteering while having fun? Whenever the community needs us, we volunteer. Last week, I volunteered at a grade school “carnival” (every teacher sets up a game like twister or bowling) that raised money for the PTA and the town park. I painted faces, sold cotton candy, and made popcorn. That sounds like a ton of fun, right? But it was also volunteering? And next week, Kiwanis is having a pancake breakfast, so I’m making the pancakes. Both are forms of volunteering, but appear to the outside to be just fun.</p>
<p>They do nothing, so I quit. There are some nice people, but it was really boring watching people trying to inflate their resum</p>
<p>How is having a pancake breakfast a volunteering? In what way is it benefiting the community? Is it one of those fundraiser event again?</p>
<p>Eh, here we have something more like Beta Club. Key Club is rather in the shadows, and totally a joke/stepchild. I looked into both at first, but the lameness scared me away. It was boring, and nothing they did (which was…nothing) did anything to help that lol. I never got that feeling that the members were joining for fun or to help out. They were also quite mean. :(</p>
<p>I find it really weird that there are clubs that organize community service activities…we just join a bunch of groups that each fundraise for one specific charity… From what I understand, you just join this club and do random service stuff for different causes?</p>
<p>Is it just a club oriented around volunteering?</p>
<p>I feel like in a lot of cases, it’s a club designed for random volunteering activities and churning out volunteer hours.</p>
<p>Even Interact focuses on a specific cause.</p>
<p>It reminds me of CSF. I was just wondering if it possessed a distinctive purpose.</p>
<p>^You know, I don’t know why I join CSF. It does nothing. Initially I thought it would impress college, but really, it just something just to motivate you to get good grades. Besides, I don’t even need CSF, but I want the seal and etc. during graduation.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why people would make such harsh generalization about Key Club. Sure, the Key Club at YOUR school might not be strong, but that doesn’t mean that the majority aren’t. I’m VP of my home club and we’ve organized events like soup kitchen, food bank, helping out at the local elementary school, etc. In fact, we’ve only held one fundraising event all year. I really wish people would take Key Club more seriously…</p>