Child missed school? Please pay $40

The Orange County Register ^ | February 17, 2012 | Fermin Leal

[Fast Moving Angel]

ORANGE – Parents in Orange Unified received a letter at the beginning of the school year asking them to donate $40 for each day their child misses class to help offset the $5.5 million in attendance funding the district loses annually.

Five months later, the district has netted $920.

[Fast Moving Angel]

It really is all about the Benjamins.

[Raycpa]

Reverse vouchers.

[Raycpa]

Reverse vouchers.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Orange Unified seems to have an entitlement mentality. I wonder who the jerk or jerks were who donated the money and if the money actually want into the district’s coffers and not someone’s wallet.

[Clintonfatigued]

Either deal with bullies, bad teachers, and boring busywork all day or your parents pay a fine. Talk about something for nothing.

[annelizly]

You mean if my kid has a doctors appt. and i have to take them during the school day I have to pay the doctor AND THE SCHOOL?! Bull crap!! My kid, my choice to let them go to school or not.

[Jonty30]

Not the Benjamins, but the Jacksons.

They aren’t asking for $100, yet.

[BfloGuy]

Five months later, the district has netted $920.

Not to quibble, but the district has grossed $920. To net $920 would imply that it was ahead by that amount on the revenue it had lost.

This isn't surprising. After all, the figure we know as GDP, Gross Domestic Product, is really Net Domestic Product. The meanings have been lost.

[GeronL]

wow.

Will they try to collect from homeschoolers?

[ArchAngel1983]

" Orange Unified officials conceived the idea after some parents approached the district saying they felt guilty for taking their children out of school for doctor's appointments, ski trips or other reasons, said school board member Mark Wayland. ""It's a way to clear your conscious.

Yeap, that's the Orange County I remember in the 80's when I was stationed at MCAS El Toro

I begged my detailer to get me the hell out of CA. We ended up in Corpus Christi, TX and never, ever looked back.

[Average Al]

So we bill the parents whose kids aren’t in school to pay the kids to go to school now? ;-)

[bigheadfred]

The homeschoolers WILL have to participate in the school lunch program.

Everyone knows homemade lunches do not meet industry standards.

[EEGator]

It does say donate, though this is completely ridiculous.

[Jonty30]

If somebody wants to send me a Cleveland, feel free.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Will they try to collect from homeschoolers?

That's got to be one of the reasons that they're so against homeschooling. It's not about the kids.

[Gay State Conservative]

Reminds me a bit of a line on the Massachusetts State Income Tax return that allows taxpayers to pay *more* than they're required to under the law.A Boston talk host mentions it occasionally and says that in one recent year several hundred people volunteered to pay the higher tax.Several hundred out of a population of 6+ million.

[Westbrook]

> Orange Unified seems to have an entitlement mentality.

The “public school” is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.

The “public school” is better understood as the “school collective”.

It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is communist.

If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue, and like-minded friends and relatives.

If you already have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.

DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!

Especially not with your own children!

[TheRobb7]

I thought our tax money already went to pay for the school to be open.

Sorry, not gonna pay twice........

[GeronL]

voluntary, this year anyway

[Kickass Conservative]

I live in OC. I currently pay $3,600 a year in Property Taxes on our Home and another $1000 a year on the Condo my 88 Year Old Father lives in.

Two thirds of the Property Tax bill goes to the Public Schools. My Wife and I are childless, yet here we are paying for the Education of other people's children.

No wonder they got only $920. Everyone already feels fleeced by the Government. Unfortunately, the Sheep in California continue to Vote for the Shepherds, who sell them to the Slaughterhouse at every opportunity.