We haven’t been asked YET for toilet paper! I do provide the tissues, hand sanitizer and hand soap that they request. I’m not thrilled with it but I would rather the kids (who are sick) have the tissues and soaps... I get them at the Dollar Stores and hope that it keeps the illnesses down a bit. Just a thought.
Meanwhile, six-figure salaried and pensioned Administrators go about their 2-hour lunches and seminars in 5-star resorts, right on schedule.
Always, “da chid’ren” never the overpaid, underworked and overpensioned teachers and adminstrators and their Unions who kill budgets.
You would not BELIEVE the $hit we have to buy each year. Here’s a dirty, little secret. If you get a chance, go into the classroom storage rooms in the elementary schools. Ours was chocked FULL of leftovers. Waste. Each year they ask for more and more. When I went to elementary, all I brought was a spiral notebook, loose leaf paper, and a pack of pencils and a ruler. That was IT! Now it’s everything from hand sanitizer to white board markers. The schools need to start buying wholesale and let the parents pay the wholesale price.
On the other hand, many of these are “underprivileged.” They pay no local taxes other than sales tax, yet enroll several children at the taxpayers’ expense. If you can get anything out of them, it’s a plus.
However, it’s much more likely that their children will appear at school sometime during the first week of classes, without so much as a pencil. Many simply walk in and say, “Where are my supplies?” or as one put it to me, “Where’s my free stuff?”
The parent flips a cigarette out of the window of a car newer than the teacher’s as they come to pick up their student at the end of the day. America, what a country.
I buy my kids the required items only, I figured I “contributed” enough to the class when I paid thousands of dollars in property tax every year, of which 75% is suppose to go too schools.
Get rid of the teachers unions, but eventually we are going to have to face the fact that it’s the lack of parenting that brought us to where we are in the educational system today. Many of the suburban school districts around the country produce great educational results despite the interference of the unions. I challenge anyone to find me an inner-city school that has a majority of students that are literate or capable of doing long division. These schools don’t exist anymore, because government has assumed the role of father in these communities. Those who are not members of certain ethnic groups are reluctant to mention these facts. While inner-city schools in the 50s were not exactly superb, they were far better than they are today, before the government started with its War on Poverty. Student performance has also fallen steadily since the federal Department of Education was created.
“graphing calculator”
Worthless waste of money.
Why on EARTH does this woman’s daughter’s school require a graphing calculator in 9th grade? I did three semesters of college calculus before I needed one of those!
Supplies?
If only. What about the free breakfast and lunch I buy OTHER PEOPLES KIDS everday?
THAT needs to be addressed.
WITH OVER A $TRILLION INCREASE IN SPENDING (EACH YEAR~!!!) WHY ARE SCHOOLS GOING BEGGING???
They should be farting through golden silk with the money we are spening