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re: Buy your own school supplies
Posted on 8/5/18 at 4:34 pm to LSURussian
Posted on 8/5/18 at 4:34 pm to LSURussian
quote:
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.
^ This right here.
Is part of the problem.
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Posted on 8/5/18 at 4:36 pm to Scoop
quote:
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.
I don't know where you went to school but that socialist bullshite didn't fly at the schools I attended.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:01 pm to Lakeboy7
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Well said. But some, in this thread, are so pissed off at the parent they are fine with the child being embarrassed.
Easy solution to this.
Don't buy a thing for the school or their 'community' supplies and don't ever 'stuff the bus'.
Teach your kids to be nice. When their classmate needs a pencil, they can just hand them one. At least then when the kids get something for nothing, they understand it had to come from someone else, not some magical pot where supplies just materialize each year. They need that lesson to counter all the shitty ones coming from their parents. Will also show your children how much more efficient it is for us to help each other than to use government as a conduit.
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.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:07 pm to LSURussian
quote:
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.
You are a good man
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:08 pm to starsandstripes
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Where are the parents?
Yeah thats the problem Einstein, the parents arent doing their part and the children suffer as a result. Compassionate people that are able help, I think there is some shite like that in the Bible, not sure..
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:10 pm to Lakeboy7
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I think there is some shite like that in the Bible, not sure..
Christian charities give away hundreds of millions a year. You want others to pay....compelled subsidy isn’t charity.
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 5:18 pm to BBONDS25
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You want others to pay....compelled subsidy isn’t charity.
I dont give a shite if someone helps or not and who exactly is being "compelled"?
Its pretty simple, are you a compassionate person or a petty person? lots of petty types in this thread.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:24 pm to Uncle Don
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Because mommy needs the new iPhone and little Kyrecion needs a new pair of Jordan's and a PS4.
quote:
FIFY
No, you didn't. Trash has no color.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:33 pm to starsandstripes
quote: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.
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.
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 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.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:45 pm to LSURussian
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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.
quote:
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.
quote:
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.
quote:
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 on 8/5/18 at 5:49 pm to Mud_Till_May
I wasn't replying to you.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:50 pm to Mud_Till_May
quote:
she has to buy school supplies to stuff the bus at her work
no she doesn't
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:54 pm to Mud_Till_May
Wow, is this new?
Back in the 80's - you got used books that you were forced to cover with a cut up brown paper bag so you wouldn't damage it further...
And that was it.
Pens, notebooks, binders, lunchbox...parents responsibility.
Back in the 80's - you got used books that you were forced to cover with a cut up brown paper bag so you wouldn't damage it further...
And that was it.
Pens, notebooks, binders, lunchbox...parents responsibility.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:57 pm to Mud_Till_May
Don't most people buy their own school supplies?
Notebooks, pens, paper, etc.
Notebooks, pens, paper, etc.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 5:58 pm to LSURussian
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 on 8/5/18 at 6:05 pm to dantes69
I don't have a lot of empathy - but I tend to support kids getting an education because it was my way out of trash. Our school requires EduKits, and if parents cant afford them, there are two levels - the EduKit company provides a discount, and if they still can't afford them - the PTO steps in. But we go to a public school where the PTO could say they need to raise $100k in a week and they would make it.
On a side note, It pisses me off every year that Mississippi has a Back to School tax free weekend but school supplies aren't included like in every other state that does it.
On a side note, It pisses me off every year that Mississippi has a Back to School tax free weekend but school supplies aren't included like in every other state that does it.
This post was edited on 8/5/18 at 6:08 pm
Posted on 8/5/18 at 6:08 pm to Smart Post
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As long as there are weepy white women willing to subsidize this behavior, it will continue snowballing.
Exactly.
So, as a white woman (who is prone to weepiness) I no longer contribute to such.
Posted on 8/5/18 at 6:10 pm to anc
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On a side note, It pisses me off every year that Mississippi has a Back to School tax free weekend but school supplies aren't included like in every other state that does it.
Wtf?
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