Why can't the students just use the calculator on their iPod?
And then when the test is over, they can listen to
Been Caught Stealing to celebrate!!. woo hoo! *bump*
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!
Hope she isn't taught math in base 8 like my kids were.(That's for kids with 8 fingers and toes)
Not sure they have a base 8 calculator. LOL
Why the hell do they need calculators?
All through my Boston Public School school years we paid for nothing.
We got used books from at least a year ago that we had to cover in brown paper bags ... which was really great fun and excellent manual arts training ... AND ... we could write and color on them as much as we wanted !
We got dark green #2 pencils with "Boston Public Schools" stamped on them in gold lettering ... free.
The lower grades got that multilined paper to teach kids that some letters were short, some medium and some taller ... free
All the way up to Jr. high, everything was free
('course I know NOW it was tax dollars ... but I NEVER heard any anti-tax talk ... ever)
In Jr High .. I had to buy a jock strap for gym ... we used our own shorts and T shirts (NObody ever wore anything but white T shirts. ... I don't think God had invented colors in those days .. )
High school weas a drag ... we still got our free books and we still covered them in brown paper ... but the girls looked down on brown paper ... so we had to spend a few dollars for some "hip" covers .. (The girls loved the Beatles, but us guys couldn't EVER bring ourselves to put a beatles cover on out books ... car covers were cool.
I quit and joined the Army in 65, so I didn't do the prom thing or any of that get drunk stuff (I wish'd I had .. ) so the class ring and all that never entered my6 life.
The point of this whole essay is; I've read a lot of stories about how schools no longer provide the things I got for free and THAT would flat out piss me off.
I can hear now the response I'd get, after complaining at a PTA (do they still HAVE them?) meeting or school board meeting ...
But Mr Knarf ... we have the salaries to consider ...
And then when the test is over, they can listen to
Been Caught Stealing to celebrate!!. woo hoo! *bump*
It was about $120 for school supplies for my daughter this year, haven’t shopped for my son yet. A large portion of that was supplies like cleaning wipes, kleenex and hand sanitizer, not items she would use herself like paper and pencils.
Schools are supplementing their custodial budget on the backs of parents.
Yes, because the values of e and pi are constantly changing.