Posted on 07/28/2013 3:45:35 AM PDT by MacMattico
I'm in NY and my daughter's schools just recently put out their "school supply lists" -- what students have to have for each class and supplies they "share" like tissues, whiteboard markers, colored pencils. My kids are in high school and Jr High.
It cost me $206 for school supplies! And we spend about $17,000 per year per student in this district! Wayyy over taxed!! My parents couldn't have afforded this for 4 kids.
I told the Superintendent this was ridiculous. She tried to steer me to a "charity" group that could help me get the supply's. I said I'm not in need of charity, I think you're wasting our money! She told me not to worry, when school starts they'll have some free supply give-a-ways! How dense! I don't need your $$, I need you to stop wasting money that isn't yours!
When I was a kid in rural Mississippi, out lunch ladies actually cooked. The meals were delicious and nutritious. We were allowed (even encouraged) to go back and ask for seconds on the vegetables. Now, it's all heat and serve, and the meals are awful.
If I'm too rushed to pack my own lunch, I take one of the pre-prepared salads, and even then the vegetables are rarely fresh and crisp.
When I visited my granddaughters school, I was stunned to see papers posted...everyone of them having spelling errors...and everyone of them "printed".
I taught my granddaughter to "write" and also her multiplication tables. The system is disgusting.
Socialism destroys the natural compassion and gratitude that God intended for his children to have one toward another. When children attend socialist-entitlement schools they are learning a **powerful** and ungodly lesson. They learn that the voting mob can take ( by threat of police force) money from their neighbor so that they can have tuition-free school. Where is the example of the compassion and generosity shown by their neighbor? Why would there be any opportunity to learn gratitude? Instead, the children risk learning that any voting mob powerful enough to give them tuition-free schooling is powerful enough to use police force to get **lots** of free stuff from their neighbor.
Honestly....I am perplexed that any Christian or conservative would agree to support, uphold, and establish such evil.
And....I bet you are doing LOTS of other afterschooling as well.
Who will take all the credit? The **socialist-entitlement school** OF COURSE! And, the real estate agents will boast about the area's “good” schools. BARF!
Now, which religious world-view should I include in my math classroom? Catholic? Mormon? Jewish? Baptist? Muslim? Do we venerate the Dali Lama?
As a teacher, I try to model and encourage values that we'd all like to see in children: honesty, kindness, gratitude, respect... teaching the path to heaven is a duty of parents, not teachers.
However...Let's be honest. **Books** of tables are not necessary. A few pages of trig and log functions is enough for any high schooler and a few pages is not a “book”.
You had a car. I had to walk to school through the snow, five miles there and seven miles back, and it was up hill both ways. When I was a senior I was allowed to drive the dinosaur.
Father Finks was our chaplain at Mercy which is where I went. A true Marxist!!
I have already read it. I got to visit Edward Teller when I started my nuke design career. He had many stories and liked to tell them.
God allowed me a great life and career.
Truth stranger than fiction! LOL
I think you are 100% correct.
And I'm still waiting for the train to arrive that left Newark at 10:15 for Detroit and passed the Detroit to Newark train that left Detroit at 7:45. The one from Newark was going 50 MPH. The one from Detroit was traveling at 62 mph.
It looks like he stood me up.
I don’t want the ACLU to get wind of it, but in our middle school we still sing religious carols during our Christmas Sing -A-Long
Bought my foster daughter a pair of nice jeans. First day of school my wife gets a call that the child is dressed inappropriately in a pair of "Daisy Dukes" My wife grabs a pair of my sweats and my read hunting suspenders.
The child wore the jeans to school went into the lavatory dumped them in the trash and put on the shorts.
My wife made her wear my sweats and suspenders for the rest of the day after she (foster brat) went through the trash to find the new jeans.
When I got home I explained to her that if she pulled a stunt like that again the only thing she would be wearing were my sweats and suspenders.
Problem solved.
It’s too bad that those of us without children or those with children no longer in the system can’t get those taxes knocked off our bill. It might even be an incentive for a teacher, such as yourself, to set up his own homeschool foundation and get the like-minded parents involved in teaching. My sister-in-law homeschools their children and it has come at a great sacrifice in income, but the kids are smarter than public school kids, polite and Christians. And my brother and SIL say the loss of income has been worth it. Now, the eldest is off to college.
Yes, because the values of e and pi are constantly changing.
My wife is thoroughly enjoying taking our 22 year old son out to buy him nice clothes for his first job as a college grad. Moms always enjoy that. It’s especially nice that he has a paycheck now and is paying for his own clothes. Of course Mom sneaks in some “treats” for him. Such a refreshing change to get his out of the college grunge look.
There is an amazing scene in "Apollo 13" Where they need to calculate the new trajectory and the one engineer says that he is on it and pulls out the slide rule.
In the one control room at Canaveral they had one in a red box with a glass front. The sign on it said "In case of battery failure break."
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