My sympathies re your granddaughter’s situation. Public school is toxic as street drugs and likewise expensive.
As I peruse this thread I wonder what would happen if the parents who can afford to comply with the demand for supplies, simply declined to do so.
Would some school official contact the parent and make demands? Do a shakedown? an act of extortion if performed by a person not employed by a government!
Won’t anyone try it and let us know how it goes?
But I fear no one will. I often urge people to go Galt, and everyone’s got a reason not to go. I tell them to consider moving to places where the property tax is low, to buy a house they can afford with NO mortgage, to cut the cable and the credit cards. There’s always some reason they just can’t do the things that make a difference; they can only spout theory and whine discreetly about practice.
At this point it would not surprise me if they are too craven to ignore the public school shopping list.
Will it take a James O’Keefe to contact a school and say “Yes I can afford it but no I won’t do it” and record the reaction?
I used to raise holy hell when my kids came home with questionnaires asking for information about me and my wife as parents. Where did we work, did we serve in the military, are we government employees, and so on.
I always refused profusely, adamantly. I even got calls from the principal and teachers. The reason they wanted the information was to apply for more government funding because of the stress my working for the government put on that particular school.
I always told them to stop taking this government blood money - and the other money the US Dept of Ed gives them because it leads to no good. I paid my property taxes which should have been enough to pay the schools. If they can’t make it without Government money, then they should be disestablished in my opinion because they are giving up my child’s freedom for effing money.