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Where do school coordinators sign in to enter points now?  I can't sign in with my school email on the regular sign in page.  There use to be a separate link.
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Robert Pkripper

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I am the coordinator for a very small rural school. I had to call the school and explain Coke rewards to the princple. I also spoke at school orintation and sent home a news letter. I now have tons of Coke points to enter and no way to enter them. As stated in an earlier comment not everyone has a computer much less the internet. I don't understand the point of not having a school coordinator. Can't checks still be cut and sent to the school with a coordinator? With the way things are I'm sure not going to send home anymore news letters encouraging people to use Coke products. We are frustrated but the schools and the kids are the ones suffering because of this. Why are we waiting? Are you telling us you didn't think this through before you made the changes? Or are you just not wanting to help schools as much and this cuts things back? I'm grateful for the program but this stinks.
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I am also a coordinator for a small rural school...many of our families do not have computers and/or Internet access.  I have many families who like to drink COKE products and they love sending in the COKE lids with their student.  I have approximately 300 lids to enter, but wanted to wait to see what the new program had to offer.

I am very disappointed that the email they sent the coordinators said nothing about dropping access for school coordinators.  I saved the email and went back to look at it when I couldn't access the website last week.  I am glad that schools who do not have coordinators will be able to get donations from COKE, but don't forget those us who are coordinators for our schools so our teachers can afford materials that will help our students be more successful.  Many of us spend our own time on the weekend to enter all of the codes our families give us to help our small schools.  COKE...please help us understand why you changed it.
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Robert Pkripper

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I think the bottom line is they changed it to save money and now are trying to figure out a way to sugar coat it so we aren't upset.

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shawn

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Our kids turn in codes, we're getting another 5-10,000 codes this week. Parents don't want the hassle of entering these codes. Without our collection of caps process, the school would be lucky to earn $10 a year. Another thing, why would someone want to donate money through your new third party and have them take a percentage when you can give money directly to the school without a fee taken out. I have 10,000 codes to enter and right now I am begging teachers to let me create accounts for them. This program has gone from a blessing to a curse
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I'm in the same boat, several gallon sized bags FULL of codes and no way to enter them.  Even creating an MCR login for every one of my family members, I'll never get them entered at a rate of a max of 70 points, or whatever it is, per week.  The school coordinator login was PERFECT.  Our school parents don't want the hassle of entering the codes themselves, but are more than willing to send them in.  The other problem seems to be that the code entry is a pain in the neck and doesn't always work.  MCR, if you spent a lot of money on this new set up, it was a waste.  PLEASE change it back to allow us to enter codes as coordinators.  The change to a monetary payment vs. supplies is fine, but the rest of this is terrible!

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It's been two weeks. Has anyone received any updates from Coke? I still have bags of caps and codes coming in every week and no way to possibly get my school the reward money we're "drinking." We need the option to enter more codes at once!
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I haven't heard anything and nothing on the facebook page that I have seen. Our school just did our collection (we collect monthly) and got 954 caps. The last thing that I saw posted was the same as before that using personal accounts to donate to the school is temporarily. I am just entering as many codes as I can and donating to the school.
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Hello nissenbaumjen, we recommend removing your private email address from out public page. The MCR for Schools program is fully functional at this time. All members can donate cash and points through their personal accounts. At this time, we cannot provide any timeline for potential future updates. 
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Robert Pkripper

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If Coke truly cares about our schools they will make this right. They want to look good but they don't want to pay out. Don't get me wrong. It is super awesome for Coke to have this program. However they got us into it and  now they simply want to short change the schools. The current set up is completely unfair. Maybe Coke didn't realize just how much was going to be paid out or they realized it was growing and it's being changed before they have to pay more. I think it's great the school is getting money and can decide what they need. You can't enter all the codes you get though. 75 points a week is a joke and Coke knows it. Coke knows not everyone is wiling to sit and put in code after code. Cut out the coordinator and cut back on cash payouts. Works with using our personal points as well. We can't save codes for our personal account because all the codes we are entering are the schools and our personal codes are backing up as well. So we can't get anything for ourselves so Coke wins again. I drink Coke and would split up my codes between myself and school. So much for that. I don't know what to do. The school keeps sending me codes and I have no way to enter them. This is just a mess and Coke needs to make it right or just end the program.
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Shelly Gailey

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75 points is $1.13
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LOL......so just under 5$ a month. LOL whatever will the schools spend ALL that money on...I'm with Robert my school has really enjoyed receiving the basketballs, football's, etc......coke did not do this to help schools it was done to help coke and only coke.....I will be sending out letters this week notifying parents that our school's program has been suspended and explaining that coke has changed the program and we can no longer order items but instead we can now earn money in the amount of around 5$ a week!!!!
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Amanda Kirby

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If you get volunteers can earn a lot more than $5 a week
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Robert Pkripper

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Yes if you CAN get volunteers and they DO have access to the computer and feel like wasting their important time for less than $5.00 a month!!! If I ask parents if they would rather give $5.00 a month or sit and waste time punching in codes when they could be doing something way more useful with their time which do you think they would choose? Coke knows exactly what they are doing. I might be only 1 customer lost but that's still some money out of Coke's pocket. I'd rather give the money to the school that would have been spent on Coke and drink some good old fashioned water. This way I can give the school way more than $5.00 a month and not promote Coke. When a company as big as Coke decides to do this to our kids its time to take a stand.
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Shirley

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Volunteers. LOL now that is really funny...couldn't get anyone to volunteer before certainly will not now...Robert you are not the only person who will not be doing any business with coke.....back to all water for me and once they receive my notification
that we are suspending the program I anticipate some of our parents will be doing the same

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