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re: Buy your own school supplies

Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:33 pm to
Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
127307 posts
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:33 pm to
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This shite is out of control "oh the chidren the children". Where are the parents? They can't save $4 per month for school supplies? They can save $4 per month but we have a bunch of weepy vagenes out there that refuse to make them do it.
Okay, tough guy, when the kid falls behind in his grade level because his grandmother is raising him and she's on social security and food stamps and his parents are dead or in prison and he never catches up so he either gets socially promoted or he drops out of school and turns to a life of crime all because you were too heartless and/or cheap to buy him $20 worth of supplies when he was in the first or second grade, I hope it's you he robs.

That's why I give the supplies directly to teachers I know and trust to make good decisions who to let have the supplies I buy. They know the kids' situations at home. If it's deadbeat parents, the teachers only give the kid the minimum tools he needs to complete his work assignments while continually hounding the parents to buy all of the supplies their child needs.

And they don't have "community supplies." I've volunteered in both of their classrooms and I've seen the 25 drawer supply cabinet containing each child's supplies in separate drawers in their name. They can't use anything from another child's drawer...only theirs.

If a kid has been dealt a terrible hand in life and just needs a hand up not a hand out, he gets the helping hand up.

Go ahead and continue sitting on your high horse pretending you're doing the world a favor by not spending $20 to help a child whose life is already difficult enough. Your momma must be so proud of you....
Posted by Mud_Till_May
Member since Aug 2014
9685 posts
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:45 pm to
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Okay, tough guy, when the kid falls behind in his grade level


NOT MY FAULT

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his grandmother is raising him and she's on social security and food stamps and his parents are dead or in prison


NOT MY FAULT

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or he drops out of school and turns to a life of crime all


NOT MY FAULT

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you were too heartless and/or cheap to buy him $20 worth of supplies when he was in the first or second grade, I hope it's you he robs. ? 


Actually you will be the one he robs because he feels entitled to your things. 20 dollars isnt the issue, its the lesson that he learns from it.

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That's why I give the supplies directly to teachers I know and trust to make good decisions who to let have the supplies I buy. 


Nice of you.

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They know the kids' situations at home. If it's deadbeat parents, the teachers only give the kid the minimum tools he needs to complete his work assignments while continually hounding the parents to buy all of the supplies their child needs.


I wish someone would feel pitty for me and pay my bills.

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Go ahead and continue sitting on your high horse pretending you're doing the world a favor by not spending $20 to help a child whose life is already difficult enough. Your momma must be so proud of you....


I need that 20 dollars to buy my horse feed. My momma is proud.
Posted by dantes69
Boise, Id.
Member since Aug 2011
2022 posts
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:58 pm to
look, all that needed to be done was put on the flyer to please send extra supplies to help kids who's parents couldn't afford them and I would have been more then happy to help, but sending my daughter home in tears because she picked out a ruler with super heroes she loved and it was taken away from her was way over the line.
Posted by Green Chili Tiger
Lurking the Tin Foil Hat Board
Member since Jul 2009
47968 posts
Posted on 8/5/18 at 6:11 pm to
Honestly? I would gladly buy 2 chromebooks (1 for my kid and 1 for another student) if they would just switch to a digital based curriculum instead of actual paper textbooks and tests, homework, etc.

A lot of schools are heading this direction, but it's kind of asinine that education is the last place to adapt to technological advances.
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
23965 posts
Posted on 8/5/18 at 6:53 pm to
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Okay, tough guy, when the kid falls behind in his grade level because his grandmother is raising him and she's on social security and food stamps and his parents are dead or in prison and he never catches up so he either gets socially promoted or he drops out of school and turns to a life of crime all because you were too heartless and/or cheap to buy him $20 worth of supplies when he was in the first or second grade, I hope it's you he robs.



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If a kid has been dealt a terrible hand in life and just needs a hand up not a hand out, he gets the helping hand up.



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