Posted on 08/18/2008 8:31:37 AM PDT by NRA1995
WASHINGTON - Hard times and higher fuel prices will follow kids back to school this fall.
Children will walk farther to the bus stop, pay more for lunch, study from old textbooks and wear last year's clothes. Field trips? Forget about it.
This year, it could cost nearly twice as much to fuel the yellow buses that rumble to school each morning. If you think it's expensive to fill up a sport utility vehicle, try topping off a tank that is two or even three times as big.
At the same time, costs for air conditioning and heating, cafeteria food and classroom supplies are mounting, all because of the shaky economy. And parents have their own tanks to fill.
The extra costs present a tricky math problem: Where can schools subtract to keep costs under control?
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.comcast.net ...
WHERE THE HELL CAN YOU GET THAT IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR?!
He didn't even have video games to entertain him when he took a short rest from all that cyphering, either.
Are you kidding!?! Everyone knows that students' achievement correlates precisely with administrators' salaries and benefits!
Let me guess—I haven’t read but the first paragraph of the artile. I’m thinking that, by the end of the article, this will require increasing taxes. For the children.
LOL. And if he had a video game the poor man would have had to drag a long drop cord, since batteries hadn’t been invented.
According to some recent obesity study, some 40% of today’s children suffer from being overweight. Maybe a walk to school would help.
WHERE THE HELL CAN YOU GET THAT IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR?!
It was a very long article, I had to trim it.
I don’t know what is happening, but I have tried 3 different times to read the article, but while the page opens, there is nothing on the screen.
Have another bite:
Parents have been cutting back all summer. For back-to-school clothes, Heidi McLean shopped at outlets and the Marshalls discount chain for her son and daughter, high school students in Eureka, Calif.
“But this year, I’m forcing the kids to reuse their backpacks,” McLean said. “They each cost $50. They like the special cool ones, and they’re still holding up.”
I think I used the same bookbag from 1st through 7th grades....FORCING THE KIDS TO REUSE THEIR BACKPACKS???
Nevermind -— it openned this time.........
How about the author of this stop whining to us about it and go complain to Pelosi and Co.??? THEY are the ones who are allowing high energy prices to eat up our financial fabric.
Good. They're too fat.
pay more for lunch
Good. Maybe they'll bring nutritious food from home instead of stuffing their fat faces with chili dogs and french fries at the cafeteria.
study from old textbooks
Good. The new-textbook racket is just a way to siphon tax dollars into the pockets of professors of education, and promulgate their destructive fads in educational theory. There's no reason for any textbook to be updated more often than every twenty years or so, except maybe science books. History books can come with yearly supplements just like encyclopedias used to.
and wear last year's clothes.
Horrors. You'd think they were all spoiled only children who had never worn hand-me-downs.
Field trips? Forget about it.
That's the job of parents.
Sorry, I do not see any significant downside. The Chinese manage to teach their children twice as much, especially in math and science, on the merest fraction of what we spend on our bloated educrats.
-ccm
oh no, an old textbook?
the english and math they taught last year should be fine for this year too,
maybe they will just have to cut back on the spending on bananas and condoms for sex ed for 1st and 2nd graders...
And their $300 per sq ft school buildings... biggest waste of our tax money.
Try that link
$230 million for 1600 students, thats $143,000
per student
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25076292/
Los Angeles High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, with space for some 1,600 students, most from surrounding low-income neighborhoods, is the architectural crown jewel of the district’s ambitious $20 billion building campaign.
A steel tower wrapped in a spiraling ribbon is one of the most striking features of a new arts high school set to open next year.
Its $230 million price tag is another.
I don't know anything about school districts where you live, but no such thing happens in the school district where I live.
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