Posted on 08/15/2010 3:27:59 PM PDT by Marylander
When Emily Cooper headed off to first grade in Moody, Ala., last week, she was prepared with all the stuff on her elementary school’s must-bring list: two double rolls of paper towels, three packages of Clorox wipes, three boxes of baby wipes, two boxes of garbage bags, liquid soap, Kleenex and Ziplocs.
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The ONLY community objects in my classroom are the pencils and pens I find on the floor of my classroom and hallway.
I put them in a cigar box (yes, a cigar box) and any student who needs one can take them from that box.
And that leads to my question. Where does all the money go? I think mouton is close to the answer.
Here in Tx. about 2/3rds of my property taxes are designated for public school districts. A few years ago they tore down and built several brand new elementary schools.
Why they couldn’t just remodel the old ones I don’t know-—they didn’t seem all that rundown to me.
My second cousin was the principal at ACCC. I suspect she was the “Wildwood Girl” from the song back in the ‘60s.
Couldn’t find her a** with both hands, the boys did that.
Fellow teacher who hosted her wedding afterparty was teaching Heating and Cooling, like Heat pump repair. His didn’t work, he was waiting for Monday when the real men would come fix it for him.
He was showing off a simple toy from New Hope, PA (AKA gay town) that took him an hour to figure out. I solved it in about ten minutes and he tried to take it out of my hands just before I finished.
You may quote me:
“Journalism majors are the only people who keep teachers from being the stupidest people on earth with a college degree”.
I tend to believe Neal. Perhaps your area is unusual.
http://townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2004/08/07/back_to_government_school/page/2
What an outrage. Can you post more information on this, maybe a link?
No rubbers in that box?
I think I’d simply bring a picture of Sharyl Crow and when at it, flush her down the can too.
It goes far beyond poor performance. The dear highly trained education professionals today are indoctrinating children with cultural marxism, false and distorted history, and with deviant sexual norms. This is going on everywhere.
The OCPA in Oklahoma did an audit of actual spending in Oklahoma and found that instead of spenind $6.6k/student the schools were spending $11.2k/student. There ought to be a public policy group that would be willing to do a similar audit in your state to determine actual spending. Brandon Dutcher at OPCA would be happy to explain to someone what they did.
re: Skiatook
First, they require parents to keep their children imprisoned in these dreary public schools and charge taxpayers for it, now they force them to bring their own toilet paper. Isn’t this adding insult to injury?
Perhaps.
Pic's from my classroom.
Gifts my students and I collected for a platoon in Iraq.
Bulletin board in my classroom.
Gifts the kids collected to give to the troops guarding the terrorists at Gitmo. *
(We found out that the terrorist were getting more valentins from the US then they were)
Since our boys in in high school now, we don't seem to get all the requests for classroom supplies, except perhaps the occasional box of tissues. I haven't heard whether the elementary schools in our district have gone off the deep end asking for cleaning supplies and toilet paper. I sure hope not. We're in the process of building an overly expensive and grand new high school. Taxes went through the roof, and plenty of people are mad at the school board. I think if the same citizens had to supply toilet paper and hand sanitizers, it would cause quite a stir.
Back when we were kids, our parents had to supply a lot of our books as well as papers, pencils, etc. I remember going with my mother to the place that sold all the paperback workbooks for first grade and bringing home brand new educational materials. A few years later, there was some ruling that all this stuff had to be supplied by the school district, right down to pencils and paper. Apparently it discriminated against the poor. Now we're back to supplying lots of stuff but it's communal supplies rather than books for individual use. Funny how things work out.
I assume that after one time of this parents know that their kids will not get a shot at anything special that they bought for them, but instead will get the cheapest stuff they can buy, knowing that some other kid will get it.
How about the $17 million football stadium that the Round Rock School district built just before I moved from Texas in 2006?
How about the $17 million football stadium that the Round Rock School district built just before I moved from Texas in 2006?
It's illegal to require that the students supply so much as a pencil. FREE and appropriate public education.
I recall reading about it on threads here at FR last year.
We do have a limit on the # of boxes of facial tissue we can request per month. We are limited to two boxes, after that I buy them with my own money for the class.
If I am not mistaken federal income taxes permit up to $250/year for teacher supplies. I know I go way over the 250 but figure it is just part of the job description.
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