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re: Buy your own school supplies
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:37 pm to Jake88
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:37 pm to Jake88
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This sounds like a bull shite 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.
I have a friend that works in a school that is basically all free and reduced lunch students. They have more backpacks to give away every year than they have kids to take them.
Some of it is because the backpacks are generic type backpacks and even the kids in poverty want to pick out their own backpacks.
But we don’t have an entitlement problem.
This post was edited on 8/5/18 at 2:38 pm
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Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:37 pm to Jake88
Congratulations.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:38 pm to Gevans17
quote:Yeah, that's not what happens where we send the kids. My wife just spent all yesterday buying supplies.
Nah. Just get the teachers to pay for it like the Catholic schools
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:40 pm to Jake88
these kids are not embarrassed, they have been taught at an early age that someone will step in and take care of them and if no one does, it is because the world hates them.
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 2:41 pm to LSURussian
I'm not criticizing your decision, I'm simply talking of how embarrassment is a great teacher.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:44 pm to Jake88
quote:Most of these kids over the age of 12 have a mobile device and data.....a pack of Ticonderoga pencils should be within the budget.
, "Should I forgo the PS4 game and buy school supplies?"
Posted on 8/5/18 at 2:46 pm to LSURussian
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I'm not going to let kids be embarrassed and suffer for the poor decisions of their parents.
When I was in elementary school all the free lunch kids would have to go up to the teacher's desk every Monday morning so she could check their names off a list.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 3:04 pm to rpg37
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those who cannot afford are even gifted all their school supplies
Things are to the point now that even ones that can afford them just don't buy them because they expect them to be gifted.
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 3:17 pm to Capital Cajun
LSURussian does it a great way.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 3:18 pm to LSURussian
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I'm not going to let kids be embarrassed and suffer for the poor decisions of their parents.
1. You misunderstanding "suffering". Cancer? Check. Starvation? Check. Disease? Check. Abuse? Check. Using generic school supplies or last years pencils? Not so much.
2. Given what human nature is, one should always be very hesitant to break the link between cause and effect in the realm of human endeavor. It is one of the most powerful methods to change human behavior and motivate people there is.
I'm all for preventing children from suffering...but not having the same kinds of nice things other kids do in a school setting can be a tremendous motivation to success later in life.
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 3:55 pm to LSURussian
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I'm not going to let kids be embarrassed and suffer for the poor decisions of their parents.
My personal issue is that I'd be surprised if there's more than a handful of parents that can't afford supplies in my entire district yet I have to send enough for three kids every year. Where are these supplies going?
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 4:13 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Because mommy needs the new iPhone and little Kyrecion needs a new pair of Jordan's and a PS4.
FIFY
Posted on 8/5/18 at 4:16 pm to Boatshoes
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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.
It's ridiculous that this is done. I don't understand why parents even allow it.
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 4:21 pm to LSURussian
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I'm not going to let kids be embarrassed and suffer for the poor decisions of their parents.
Well said. But some, in this thread, are so pissed off at the parent they are fine with the child being embarrassed.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 4:33 pm to Boatshoes
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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.
This will not happen to my kid.
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