So, why aren’t you putting your kids in private schools or home schooling?
Each year we spend more and more on “school supplies” and pay more in taxes. Teachers and Administrative salaries go up. When I was in HS we needed a notebook, pens and pencils and later a Scientific Calculator. And don’t get me started on the calculator. Daughter needed a $150 one last year, but it was suppose to last all 4 years of math. Now they may be going “a different direction” which would require a new calculator! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I hear ya.
Signed my son up for high school on Friday. You should have seen the look on the face of the lady that asked me if we needed a free/reduced lunch form when I told her that we didn’t. She had to do a double take and look up at me to see what kind of alien creature was standing before her.
Big giveaway for school supplies in August for this area. Free breakfasts. Free lunches. Free school supplies. Some people don’t have to pay for anything any more.
High school sure changed, all I needed was a #2 pencil, a fountain pen, a notebook, a pocket knife and some smokes, a bottle of Thunderbird and a rifle out in the car, and I was good to go.
In the school district I live in parents have been given a list of items to buy and then told to have the kids bring them all to school. The teachers then redistribute the supplies, giving the costlier items to low income kids and the cheaper stuff to kids they know come from better circumstances.
I heard the other day on the news that some folks are spending $1200 on supplies, but that did include a lap top or tablet, so your number is right there.
I can’t remember what it cost me. I just remember that we could never buy stuff until school actually opened and then it was a scramble because of course you had to have RIGHT AWAY.
I actually liked Catholic school, they gave you everything you needed. Of course you paid for it (you even had to purchase the text books) but at least you had what was needed with no shopping hassle.
If you think students pay too much you should see how much teachers have to shell out of their own pockets.
Try home schooling! I coughed up over a grand last year in books, supplies, etc.. and still paid taxes to the county to not educate my kids.
History is the blue folder, math is red, science is green....just plain idiotic.
Half our job in life is learning to create your OWN order. Just check out your kitchen...we all "file" different.....but we all have a junk drawer.
Yeah, my daughter gets the list, stuff like handi-wipes, sani-wipes, lots of pencils, pens, etc.
Then the teacher pools the supplies and distributes to everyone.
I/daughter say B##S@#$% !
The NC state legislature (repub, for the first time in forever) just passed a bill requiring the schools teach cursive writing !! Some of the systems weren’t.
Can you believe that ?
Sacrifice and go private if possible.
Like my grand daughters’ school. They ask for way over the amount of supplies each child needs (e.g., 5 packs of 48 count #2 Ticonderoga pencils) because the teachers give the extra supplies to the illegals’ children that have flooded our schools. Look at any bus stop near an apartment building anywhere in your state or county. They are overwhelmed with illegals’ children.
And when they are all normalized (how Rubio weasel words Amnesty) they will STILL be getting free sh!t as citizens and will be eligible for many more entitlements.
Simply REFUSE TO OBEY !
We’ve just spent over $1,000 for school supplies. On top of already having paid taxes for our local school district. We homeschool ...
Your kid needs #2 pencils, erasers, probably a pack of colored pencils, a blue medium tip ink pen, 3 ring binders, lined paper, folders, calculator, gym clothes and a backpack. Your kid might also need a ruler, protractor, compass, headphones and thumbdrive.
Before I wised up and sent my children to Catholic school, I never bought any of the crap that was intended to be given to parasites. Just a few essentials for my own children.
None of the public school goons ever said a word to me about it. I was kinda disappointed in that, cause I had a few things I wanted to tell them.
The solution to the demand for “shared supplies” is simple. Just refuse to buy them. This is nothing more than state-sponsored socialist indoctrination. You have to pay the taxes that support the socialist school; you DON’T have to participate in the kiddie-Starnesville.
If you do buy something for your child to take to school, put his name on it and make it clear to the “teacher” that it’s your child’s property. That makes the “teachers” mad.
At the end of the year we always send a list of school supplies for the coming class.
My list is: two - three ring binder (98 cents a piece at Walmart), pencils and a pen. Our school supplies needed crayons, colored pencils, composition paper, glue, etc.
They also supply facial tissue, but the quality is so poor that I alway buy bxes when they are on sale for the class use.
The only thing that I have as "community property" are pencils and pens that I find on the floor of the classroom and hallways.
They get put in a cigar box and if a students needs a pencil for class or the day, they can take one out and use it.
Been there, done that when our daughter went to school. I read the replies and most people here have the same message. This is nothing but redistribution of wealth. We had the same thing happen back in 2000. We bought the cheapest stuff at the dollar stores.
"The lists get bigger every year," said Damion Hester when talking about school supplies. He has five children so he has a lot of supplies to buy this year. But it's tough, he and other parents say it's not just the issue of longer lists. "It's actually getting more and more pricey," said Antwon Williams Sr.
Parents aren't liking the numbers they're seeing behind the dollar signs for school supplies. And it's not all in their heads. According to Huntington Bank's Annual Backpack Index for an elementary school student you'll pay an average of $577 for supplies, $763 for a middle schooler, and over $1,000 for a high school student. For every age it's more than a 20 % increase since 2010.
I sound like a broken record on these threads saying that I often thank God that my kids are out of public school.
Y’all have my sympathy. All that can be said is there will come a time when your kids are grown and the nightmare of direct involvement with the social engineering educrats will be over.