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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 2:20 pm to chalmetteowl
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bc we don't pay them enough and don't have jobs for all them
Yet they all have money for neck tattoos.
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 2:27 pm to Boatshoes
quote:Our school does this, also. I do not like it.
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.
We buy the required supplies in crap brands and send them to the classrom storage. We also buy good stuff for our girls to carry in their backpacks and use.
This post was edited on 8/5/18 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:28 pm to AggieHank86
quote:This sounds like a bullshite charity that allows people to avoid decisions like, "Should I forgo the PS4 game and buy school supplies?" It's like the morbidly obese "food insecure" who show up at the local food bank.
Stuff the Bus is a charitable endeavor. Don’t participate if you are not a charitable type.
I'm a charitable type, I just donate to St. Jude for kids who are truly in need and getting the shaft in the form of cancer.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:29 pm to Jake88
I agree. So don’t participate.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:31 pm to AggieHank86
I won't. But, I will take the opportunity to call it bullshite.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:33 pm to AggieHank86
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We buy the required supplies in crap brands and send them to the classrom storage.
Do you live in an all-white, gated community, too?
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 2:36 pm to LSURussian
quote:Embarrassment is a great learning tool and motivator. There were certainly things that embarrassed me as a kid and got me on the ball.
I'm not going to let kids be embarrassed and suffer for the poor decisions of their parents.
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