Like my grand daughters’ school. They ask for way over the amount of supplies each child needs (e.g., 5 packs of 48 count #2 Ticonderoga pencils) because the teachers give the extra supplies to the illegals’ children that have flooded our schools. Look at any bus stop near an apartment building anywhere in your state or county. They are overwhelmed with illegals’ children.
And when they are all normalized (how Rubio weasel words Amnesty) they will STILL be getting free sh!t as citizens and will be eligible for many more entitlements.
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?