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Buy your own school supplies
Posted on 8/5/18 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 8/5/18 at 1:53 pm
My wife is a nurse and she just informed me that she has to buy school supplies to stuff the bus at her work.
Why cant schools budget this into their tax dollars? We litterally give free school, books, lunches, and transportation to every child in america. Why cant they provide pens and paper?
Better yet why cant the parents of the children provide for their child. Every year its the same thing.
Why cant schools budget this into their tax dollars? We litterally give free school, books, lunches, and transportation to every child in america. Why cant they provide pens and paper?
Better yet why cant the parents of the children provide for their child. Every year its the same thing.
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Posted on 8/5/18 at 1:54 pm to Mud_Till_May
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she has to
Does she?
Posted on 8/5/18 at 1:55 pm to Mud_Till_May
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Why cant schools budget this into their tax dollars?
Because we have to have bloated administrative structures, baw.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 1:55 pm to Mud_Till_May
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Better yet why cant the parents of the children provide for their child. Every year its the same thing.
Because mommy needs the new iPhone and little Johnny needs a new pair of Jordan's and a PS4.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 1:55 pm to Mud_Till_May
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Why cant schools budget this into their tax dollars? We litterally give free school, books, lunches, and transportation to every child in america. Why cant they provide pens and paper?
Is this a joke? Schools give everything to kids and those who cannot afford are even gifted all their school supplies. If parents did their jobs then schools wouldn't have to treat kids like prisoners.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 1:56 pm to Mud_Till_May
Stuff the Bus is a charitable endeavor. Don’t participate if you are not a charitable type.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:06 pm to Mud_Till_May
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Better yet why cant the parents of the children provide for their child.
You mean like parents use to do back in the day?
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:08 pm to Mud_Till_May
Better yet why cant the parents of the children provide for their child bc we don't pay them enough and don't have jobs for all them
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:18 pm to Mud_Till_May
This has been going on perhaps longer than you think.
When I started elementary school about 1980, all students from families with means we're expected to bring pencils, construction paper, glue and Kleenex to distribute to the poors.
The difference? More poors (or at least more people on welfare blowing their money on beer and cigs, and making their Little Johnny do without).
As long as there are weepy white women willing to subsidize this behavior, it will continue snowballing.
When I started elementary school about 1980, all students from families with means we're expected to bring pencils, construction paper, glue and Kleenex to distribute to the poors.
The difference? More poors (or at least more people on welfare blowing their money on beer and cigs, and making their Little Johnny do without).
As long as there are weepy white women willing to subsidize this behavior, it will continue snowballing.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:24 pm to Mud_Till_May
It's worse.
You get your child nice school supplies, they take them to school.
The public school indoctrination officer (formerly known as a teacher) then proceeds to confiscate them all and put them in a big community pot. That way all kids get access to the same school supplies, instead of some having nicer stuff.
Because socialism.
You get your child nice school supplies, they take them to school.
The public school indoctrination officer (formerly known as a teacher) then proceeds to confiscate them all and put them in a big community pot. That way all kids get access to the same school supplies, instead of some having nicer stuff.
Because socialism.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:34 pm to Mud_Till_May
I take a different approach to helping kids. I don't donate to 'Stuff the Bus.'
However, I know a couple of public elementary school teachers so I ask them every year what do the kids need who can't afford their supplies.
I then go to Target or Office Depot and buy a cart full of pencils, paper, rulers, scissors, glue, colors, markers, etc. and give the stuff to those teachers. They hand it out to the kids who need it and they also share with other teachers at their school.
I'm not going to let kids be embarrassed and suffer for the poor decisions of their parents.
However, I know a couple of public elementary school teachers so I ask them every year what do the kids need who can't afford their supplies.
I then go to Target or Office Depot and buy a cart full of pencils, paper, rulers, scissors, glue, colors, markers, etc. and give the stuff to those teachers. They hand it out to the kids who need it and they also share with other teachers at their school.
I'm not going to let kids be embarrassed and suffer for the poor decisions of their parents.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:35 pm to Mud_Till_May
Nah. Just get the teachers to pay for it like the Catholic schools
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:36 pm to Mud_Till_May
quote:Because they dont give a shite, they have no pride in their kids performance or do they value any part of the education process.
Better yet why cant the parents of the children provide for their child. Every year its the same thing.
Their kids dont have supplies, will not behave and will be in jail in a matter of years.
Pens and paper are a drop in the bucket compared to the three hots and a cot we will give them until they die in a state run hospital.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:40 pm to Mud_Till_May
The bulk of my school years was in the 80s and it was the same then.
They would put out a supply that was more than an individual student needed knowing that there were enough responsible parents to provide enough of a supply surplus to meet the needs of the kids that didn’t bring their own supplies.
ETA: My youngest goes to a private school and her supply list is very modest because it is only for her use.
They would put out a supply that was more than an individual student needed knowing that there were enough responsible parents to provide enough of a supply surplus to meet the needs of the kids that didn’t bring their own supplies.
ETA: My youngest goes to a private school and her supply list is very modest because it is only for her use.
This post was edited on 8/5/18 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 8/5/18 at 3:09 pm to Mud_Till_May
A lack of personal responsibility, priorities out of wack, and lack of family structure.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 3:24 pm to Mud_Till_May
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she has to buy school supplies to stuff the bus at her work.
Sorry to hear how she feels a flu coming on. Hope she gets better once the school drive is over.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 3:57 pm to Mud_Till_May
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Better yet why cant the parents of the children provide for their child. Every year its the same thing.
My poor person alarm went off.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 4:20 pm to Mud_Till_May
My son's school sent a form home before the end of last school year for a new program. You sign up, pay $30, and the school is supposed to provide all his supplies for this upcoming school year. He starts back in a week. I fully expect that I will still have to go buy more supplies and this program to flop.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:17 pm to Mud_Till_May
my kids are 28 and 30, when they were young we had to buy their supplies, we got a flyer with all things the would need, we took our daughter shopping to get them and made it personal for her. First day of class teacher took all the supplies and threw them into a pile for all kids to use.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:44 pm to Mud_Till_May
I’d be willing to bet that all kids have their own school supplies bought by their parents and they take all these free supplies as extras or just take them home for general household use.
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