Ok, I brought my paper. Now what?
Posted on 10/11/2009 3:32:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Irish children told to bring loo roll to school to save costs
Children at an Irish primary school have been asked to bring their own lavatory roll in order to help save money.
Published: 7:00AM BST 07 Oct 2009
Pupils at a St John's girls' national school were asked to bring their own supplies of toilet roll Photo: GETTY Pupils at a St John's girls' national school, in Carrigaline, in the southern county of Cork, were asked to bring their own supplies in one of the starkest examples yet of the death of Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" economy.
Catherine O'Neill, the school's principal, said, in a letter to parents: "From time to time we will request your daughter to bring in a toilet roll to her class teacher. These rolls will be specifically for your daughter's class and will be dispensed by the class teacher."
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Ping!
We’ve been sending in boxes of kleenex to our teachers for years—I can only imagine that toilet paper will be next under sparse government school budgets.
Yep. Government can’t find enough money in its budget for toilet paper. Poor government. What ever will it do...
Plenty of money for paper pushing Administrators and teacher's union thugs, though.....meanwhile test scores continue to slip against other industrialized nations.
Hope and change......
“We’ve been sending in boxes of kleenex to our teachers for years—I can only imagine that toilet paper will be next under sparse government school budgets.”
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When I was a youngin’, our parents had to provide writing tablets, pencils and a number of other basic learning tools. My folks were not wealthy, as was true of most people in that town, but they paid their taxes, including the school property tax. My father would grumble that since he paid his taxes, the district should have enough money for school supplies. Were was all that tax money going?
Our state legislature just passed, and Gov. Fast Eddie Rendell just signed a long overdue budget for the state. i don’t know the exact figure, but it provides for an increase in education spending. Of course, that spending is going to be provided through new and increased taxes and fees (same as taxes). It’s amazing how government throws so much money at “education;” yet an alarming number of chidren graduate without knowing how to read, write and do simple math (even WITH a calculator). You would think that our fearless leaders would be aware of that and stop throwing huge amounts of our tax dolIares at the problem. But nooooooooo.
I wonder how many home schoolers experience this problem.
When I was in Dublin a little more than two years ago it was **booming**.Construction cranes dotted the skyline.Every single waitress and hotel maid I came across was either Polish of Czech and just about every car you saw on the streets was either a Range Rover or an expensive German car.
“I’m not too knowledgeable about Ireland’s educational system but it would seem to me that the elimination of one or two overpaid, underworked bureaucrats would solve this particular issue.”
My local school district has THREE “Diversity Counselors” at $90,000 each. I have schoolteachers on both sides of me that have maids to clean their houses. I’m jealous.
It’s selfish hostile policy directed at the children. Some lines shouldn’t be crossed. This is one of them IMO.
Local governments always target the "vital" services to gain support for tax increases. Why do you think things like police, firefighters, paramedics, schools and the like are always the first on the chopping block then times are tight?
Ireland lowered it’s Corporate Tax rate to 12%...and everyone from around the world rushed in to set up and do business with them.
Corporate taxes in the USA hover around 40%!
Funny, that. ;)
I've always wondered what happens to the students who don't share equally?
We thought you said Lou Rawls!
Ah the joys of living under socialism! Now everyone can crap their pants together and all will be equal - how nice!
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