EAG_ DECATUR, Ala. – Parents across the country are complaining about growing school supply lists that now include items like special ear buds, paper towels, duct tape, copy paper, liquid soap and other expensive items.
“I spent close to $100 just for one kid,” Decatur, Alabama mother of two Samantha Key told the Decatur Daily. “It is getting a little bit ridiculous when all of the parents are looking for four glossy blue pocket folders with brads. At the store, we were digging through four or five boxes of folders looking for just blue ones. Why can’t we just get any color? But they wanted blue and glossy, not the plastic ones, which last longer.”
Key said she was frustrated with the shopping experience for her fourth-grader, and has yet to shop for her first-grader.
HOMESCHOOL
HOMESCHOOL
Say it with me — HOMESCHOOL!
Look for the union label.
All the money the schools receive, go to benefit adult salaries and benefits, with no money left over for benefit of students.
Parents need to tell the schools to shove it, and teachers need to take back their profession from the unions.
And, oh yeah! We just raised your school taxes, chump!
Last year half the items my kids needed to bring to school were procured from auctions for next to nothing in cost. Yeah, 50 year old tissue paper, real lead pencils, metal protractors, real scissors, yellowed scotch tape that flakes instead of peels, dried up wet wipes from 2 decades ago, etc. Sure, it all smelled like the farm or an attic. My kids don’t use even close to a tenth of what they ask for in any given year, I figured most of it went towards faculty use anyhow, they can buy their own.
Whut’s next, parents fixing the boilers in December?
Over $1800 of my property taxes go to the school district.
4,267 Students.
Spending an average of $18,983 per student per year.
Annual budget of $86,184,000.
This does not count for the PTO, Booster Clubs, school newspaper, Athletic funds, Band funds and other student activities, which causes a steady stream of students going door to door selling or soliciting additional money for activities.
The School still Ranked 597th in the state with outrageously high salaries for administrators and teachers. With a 77% graduation rate.
And NO we have no children in the School District. We choose to transport them to a neighboring District (after gaining “approval”) with considerably better educational results and teachers.
The local educational system in the US, like State & Federal employees have become a Union Racket.
Our children attend private schools, all of their needs are waiting for them on day one, it’s built right into the tuition…and they get a far better education w/o being exposed to leftist indoctrination
Condoms, KY-Jelly, and Ocean Breeze disposable douche.
Very important. Especially in Middle School.
@cato, I just grabbed my tax bill. Of the 2 districts and 1 county college, $4122 of my $5649 property tax goes to school. Assuming all things constant for today’s dollars, that’s $65k in the 16 years we’ve lived here. For what!?!!?
Where do the extra supplies disappear to the end of the school year?
I wonder, wonder – uh-O- O – O
Cato, with your numbers I could teach 26 students a year and make half a million dollars.
I’d hire a teacher at $100k.
Rent a classroom at $12k.
Materials at $5k.
Tidy profit for me.
Government cheese!
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And they would receive an excellent education, graduate and attend college if they choose.
Why in the world do we allow all the people who live in our communities to partially own each other’s property thru the application of property taxes?
I’ll be moving next year to my home state from Minnesota. Been checking property and for 3x the house and 10x the acreage, my property tax will go from $3,500+ to about $500.
I hate Minnesota politics.
It takes a lot of paper towels to turn kids into socialists.
My wife, a kindergarten teacher, spends hundreds of dollars every year on supplies. It pisses me off. But when the school and the parents don’t provide, the teachers usually make up the difference
For one year, i had 5 kids in school at the same time. Thankfully I am down to just two. It is crazy the different stuff they need every year. But have no fear, the PTO has those specific item for sale at each of the open houses for you to purchase. Oh, also make donations and buy those same supplies for those who “qualify” for welfare. Sound sweet, but i technology qualified for it. But i just worked overtime.
then two weeks after school starts … the fund raisers
sending your kids knocking on doors to sell school fund raiser crap
Sounds like most of the items will be fundamentally transformed into “Welcome to America” kits for illegal alien/rapejihadis.
And my grandson’s list ( he’s going into kindergarten) which was over $100, specifically says not to put his name on anything. Starting that socialism early. His mom says she’s putting his name on everything.
BTW, she is a single mom who has to work, she cannot home school nor can she afford private school. Those are luxuries for a lot of people.
I had a teacher call me to bawl me out because not everything was exact. They couldn’t even fit what I did get into their backpacks; I had to send the rest in a kitchen garbage bag!
“Well, we’re still expecting (item whatever).”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Because I already purchased the basics and cannot afford any more.”
“Oh.”
Oh, and that’s on top of their yearly ‘fees’, too!
And I’m not buying the whole class brand-name, or any other kleexex. Your kid has a runny nose, YOU send him with his own tissue!
I even had a teacher throw down because I bought store brand No.2 pencils instead of the brand name she wanted.
I asked her if the pencils functioned any differently… And got met with a terse, no.
Forget “kleenex” tissues – send a roll of toilet paper works just fine. Good enough for a anus good enough for a nozzle
For a good joke, I think the parents should get together and order a bunch of paper towels with some NRA approved designs, hand gun and long gun. Maybe some cops chasing bad guys on the duct tape.
Or just tell them you refuse to submit.
DUCT TAPE?! WTH?
Kat-not all of the money school districts receive goes to administration, it’s averages about 85%!!!
That’s right, those property taxes you pay, yaknow for the children, well property taxes are used 85% of the time for salaries, benefits & pensions. Now if they need a new building, and they’re always on the horizon, then you’ve got bonds to pay off for the next 30 years.
I especially love how they say it’s only going to add 6 dollars(or whatever) per $100,000 of assessed value never mentioning this is just the latest in a very long line of slight increases, A VERY LONG LINE.
Now apparently, parents have to bring cleaning supplies as well.
I’m telling you, vouchers are the answer. Within a couple years of any state instigating a voucher plan, you will see dozens of different kinds of schools open. Maybe your kid wants to learn how to work on cars, hell certified mechanics make over $30/hour. Or maybe Dad is a CPA and the kid is a number cruncher, send him to a school that emphasizes that curriculum. Hell, if wicans open a school and they’re certified by the state, let the whack-os have their kids how to be witches. The fact is as long as I have the choice, so can you.
Right now, it’s mostly the very wealthy that can afford to send their kids to these types of schools. Fucking Obama is a GD hypocrite, ending DC’s voucher program where black kids were finally getting educated, while paying $35,000 per kid of his to send them to Sidwell. What a douche.
One of CO’s voucher initiatives said the kid would only take half! of what the state payed out per pupil and the schools districts could have the other half for an empty seat. Even that prospect scared the bejesus out of the teacher’s unions.
It’s not about education, it’s about getting young minds and filling them full off horseshit.
And where is all the lotto money going? I thought it was for the schools…
I used to love that the teachers would give the kids a friggin’ list of 50 items on the first damn day and you had to go out that night and see if anything was left with every parent in town doing the same thing. The teachers had TWO AND A HALF MONTHS OF VACATION to send out that list so our kids could arrive with the items but NOOOOOOOOOO…..