Posted on 07/28/2013 3:45:35 AM PDT by MacMattico
I'm in NY and my daughter's schools just recently put out their "school supply lists" -- what students have to have for each class and supplies they "share" like tissues, whiteboard markers, colored pencils. My kids are in high school and Jr High.
It cost me $206 for school supplies! And we spend about $17,000 per year per student in this district! Wayyy over taxed!! My parents couldn't have afforded this for 4 kids.
I told the Superintendent this was ridiculous. She tried to steer me to a "charity" group that could help me get the supply's. I said I'm not in need of charity, I think you're wasting our money! She told me not to worry, when school starts they'll have some free supply give-a-ways! How dense! I don't need your $$, I need you to stop wasting money that isn't yours!
Congratulations on your retirement!
My district is in an upstate NY suburb. Overall, we like it. There’s just been recent problems with spending choices, Administrative decisions, and teachers actually making mistakes in grading. Simple things that make a big difference. The Regents requirements have changed and sent people scrambling. I was not in a good mood when I started the thread!
Too much focus on none academics, such as physical fitness and diet of students.
An administration that would rather be the students friends instead of enforcing discipline, especially with kids who are continual behavior problems.
My colleague teaches language, and she has been told she can not spend too much time on grammar.
She is actually afraid they are going to come into the classroom when she is covering grammar.
Our states grades in science are in the mid 90's, so they have pretty much left me and the physical science teacher alone.
I really feel sorry for those just entering the teaching profession.
I heard that “no cursive” was part of Common Core but honestly I haven’t looked into it that closely.
The theory is, if kids can’t read/write cursive they can’t read our founding documents which were all written in cursive. Of course they are available online but who’s to say some leftist won’t change the wording?
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