If you like public school, think its the best thing on the planet, love administrative mistakes and really wish you could make one, you probably don’t want to read this post. While I was in Inderana I was talking with my father-in-law (we do that a lot :)) about school and he has to pay $200.00 to rent the books for his daughters’ will use in school. $100.00 per student.
What the heck is up with that? Don’t we pay huge amounts of taxes for school already? When I was in College the school sold the books, but that was college. What is up with administration, beaurocracy, and schoolboards charging parents for student materials. The students are [appropriately] already having to bring in various other materials including paper, pens, pencils and food. Some people are getting government subsidies for school lunch programs and various other materials, but in general a large portion of students have things paid for by their parents.
Forget milk money, I’m going to find some poor helpless parent and bully them for their book rental money!
If it’s a community like the one where my house is, they might have to do this – Kalkaska, Michigan has turned down every tax millage for as long as I can remember. In 1993 they shut down schools early because they ran out of money. So, if it’s something like that I can understand where they’d need to come up with more creative ways.
If the community supports the schools though, that’s insane.