A lesson in finance: Parents, teachers prepare for back-to-school expenses (tissues & toilet paper)

M Live ^ | 8/22/11 | Megan Hart

[JenB]

I’m a proponent of the Saxon math series method of learning math - you practice, and practice, and practice. So I don’t plan to let my kid use a calculator at all for arithmetic, but once she’s in Algebra and the problems are about more than adding up numbers, she’ll get a calculator. And no graphing calculator at all - if we get to calculus at home, like I expect, we’ll get access to MatLab software or something similar for really advanced problems that you can’t do on paper.

But I have the luxury of doing it the right way... lots of kids are just stuck with whatever is easiest for their teachers.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

If only. What about the free breakfast and lunch I buy OTHER PEOPLES KIDS everday?
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Want to know where the ‘free breakfast’ comes from in our schools?? Burger King. Yep! We can’t even afford BK once a week for our kids at the drive-thru.

[Responsibility2nd]

Want to know where the ‘free breakfast’ comes from in our schools?? Burger King. Yep! We can’t even afford BK once a week for our kids at the drive-thru.

 

 

Why does that not surprise me?

[Thank You Rush]

Have to add that we lived in a farming community. There wasn’t much to go around but when neighbors needed help, everyone was there to help. No bureaucrat came around to tell us what we HAD to do for others!

I don’t even have kids in school any more but this still gripes me!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Even during Carter's great depression, schools could still provide the TP.

The stories of corruption in school procurement of things like TP are legendary.

When I was in school they went thru every school in the district and removed dozens of perfectly good paper towel machines, replacing them all with new ones.

The reason was that the new supplier of paper towels to the district had made this a contractual condition. All machines supplied by his cousin Guido, no doubt.