[TontoKowalski]

As to the waste, I’m with you there. I’ve witnessed teachers throwing out brand new supplies by the arm load at the end of every year.

I want to teach in one of these schools where they can afford to throw out new supplies. That's crazy.

At the end of the school year, I dig through the garbage cans to salvage supplies that the kids throw out when they clean out their lockers. The kids actually catch on, and they ask me if I want anything before they dump it.

Paper doesn't go bad over the summer... I especially salvage quad paper, which I use to teach graphing and charting. It's cheap at the beginning of school, but much more expensive later in the year.

For the record, my 8th grade math supply list includes pencils, quad paper, a three ring binder, and a cardboard-bound composition book, which are for students' individual use. I recommend a TI-84 graphing calculator which should take kids all the way through high school and into college. If a kid doesn't have one... no problem. I still teach the old fashioned way... graphing by hand. The calculator is a convenience for use when a student knows how to do the work without one.

I'm hesitant to mention it here, but I also require students to have a Satanic Bible, so we can worship the devil during class changes.

[wintertime]

I’m hesitant to mention it here, but I also require students to have a Satanic Bible, so we can worship the devil during class changes.
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By law, your class is godlessly secular. When there is a God vacuum, Satan has an opportunity to rush in.

If you are sneaking in a God-centered worldview, then you are teaching the children that those who believe in God are sneaky.

There is NO possible way to resolve the conundrum between having either a godless or God-centered worldview in a classroom. There will be one or the other and **neither** is religiously neutral in content or consequences for the child and our continuing freedom as a nation,

[mware]

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

[verga]

I'm hesitant to mention it here, but I also require students to have a Satanic Bible, so we can worship the devil during class changes.

Good for you. this year I am planning on beginning with animal sacrifices and moving up to human ones by the end of the year.

Let's see how many of the Krazy Keyboard Kammandos that irritates.