> Schools Are Responsible For Providing School Supplies — Not Parents
This is absurd.
The parents pay for the schools and everything in them one way or another.
Now for my standard public school rant ...
The “public school”, including the “charter school”, is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The “public school” is better understood as the “government school collective”.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is collectivist.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children better than you can.
Nobody knows your children better than you do.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
It is hypocritical for you to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. And your children will know it.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
DO NOT FEED THE BEAST!
Especially not with your own children.
And DO NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT “EDUCATION” MONEY!
He that pays the piper calls the tune, and that’s especially true for any government entitlement program.
Glad my kids are out of school, but not glad we still have to pay taxes to the school district through property taxes.
I pay over $8000 a year in property taxes for schools, for what?
Heck, city kids get free backpacks, groceries, meals, babysitting, healthcare, meals, legal representation, computers, iPods, etc., and most of all they get an entitlement mentality..
Pens and pencils are the least of our worries.
Well we the citizens of my rural county in SE VA are presently paying for iPads for the kids in our schools...
And facing a county tax hike to “erase” a deficit in the budget...
And test scores in our schools are dismal.
Amazing.
I don’t know what the law is here in SC and I have grown grandchildren, no great grands yet. However, I did buy school supplies for a young boy from our church whose parents could not afford them. Just to get him started was $85
I would have to look this one up, but I have a feeling that requirement is for elementary schools only.
I had to provide my own supplies once I started in 6th grade, and that was back in 1980. The middle school or high school never provided us paper for taking notes, crayons then was not even used. The high school almost never provided a pencil or pen for anything. I think the only time they provided pencils for anything was for the state assessment tests.
Now the schools require students to have a calculator that is worth anywhere from $85 to $120. I am giving a little for inflation since I dealt with the graphic calculators when I worked in retail.
I grew up in California, Florida and Iowa. My mother never bought a school supply in her life. She’d still be complaining about it if she had, and I’m 52 and my sister is 48. OTOH, I’ve bought tons of them. What gives? We’re still paying property taxes (whether directly as a homeowner or indirectly as a renter) aren’t we?!!
Oh brother....more freebies. My parents not only paid property taxes, but paid for Catholic School Tuition AND had to pay for uniforms and school supplies. Parents today don’t have any idea how good they have it.
a 2 cent pencil bought by mom or dad
OR
a $20 pencil bought by the government, paid to a corrupt supplier, from taxes collect by a mental moron on the government payroll paying part of their taxpayer funded sallary to lobby for a $200 dollar government pencil.
At one of my local supermarkets, there was a school bus parked with a sign on the side: “FILL THIS BUS with school supplies for needy kids!” Around the same time, some city council members were standing around the doors leading into Walmart, asking people to buy some school supplies and donate them to kids who can’t afford them.
From what I see on the news, the beneficiaries of all this are largely black. But when I was a kid, you never saw all this begging for school supplies. The black kids came to school supplied just like the white ones. I know it may seem uncharitable of me....but I notice this stuff starts earlier every summer, and I’m not getting why black parents suddenly can’t afford notebooks and pencils.
In some districts when over 50% of property taxes go to public schools/education then why do parents have to foot the bill for even more supplies? I pay 55% of total property taxes for schools and I don’t have any children. That’s redistribution involuntary socialism in my view.
I wonder if homeschooling parents, like my wife and me, can get “free” school supplies from our local public school?
When I went to school, in the elementary years they provided basically everything. Then starting in Jr. High through High School (grades 7-12) we needed to supply our own notebooks, pens and pencils to take study notes during class. That was the 60’s and 70’s. When first child started kindergarten in the 90’s, I had to supply crayons, pencils, erasers, markers and a box of tissues for runny noses. This continued through grade 4. Then in Middle School, which starts at grade 5, they needed notebooks, pens, pencils, and a calculator. Basically all the same through grade 12. Though I noticed a change after the first few years, suddenly the teachers were very specific in what type of notebooks they wanted (demanded) the students use, such as a 1 or 2 inch binder with a certain type of paper plus divide, etc. And some classes required special supplies like graph paper and scientific calculators (big money items). Oh and I never remember ever encountering “poster board” when I was in school. And the first time one of my kids needed it for a project, I had no idea what it was. Now I keep extra on hand and Lord knows how much of poster board, I’ve purchased over the years. Anyways, the amount of notebooks, other supplies and books my poor children had to carry in their backpacks was totally ridiculous. If I had my way they would have been home schooled. But, my husband would never have allowed such a thing, he believes that school is where children should be educated. Though both of us can’t wait until our youngest graduates. We’re almost there.