Hmmm, in Indiana, we still have to pay book rental for our kids. It costs us several hundres of $ each year for three kids. The sucky part is that some books are so rare, in the school corp, that students are not even assigned a book of their own. They have to share it.
To me, that is total bullshit! How can they charge us book rental when we don't even see the damn book. That's like charging me a car payment when I can't even drive the car. Not only that, but students are required to bring in boxes of tissues, for the entire class, dry erase markers and other supplies for the teachers. Both of my parents were teachers and, if the school corp didn't purchase supplies, my parents either bought the supplies themselves or just did without. Never were the students required to bring in supplies for use by the teachers. Oh, and don't get me started on the multitude of school projects and dioramas (sp?) that are "required" and generally cost us about $20 each just for the "best posterboard" and the other crap the teachers grade on. I feel sorry for the kids who come from poorer families as they can't afford those supplies on which they are graded. Don't EVEN get me started on the teachers who get their jobs around here only because they are willing to coach a sport. One of my girls' teachers could not write a complete sentence without a single spelling or grammatical error. My wife and I would look forward to these "sent-home" announcements from this one teacher. She had the worst spelling and grammer of anyone I knew. Yet, she got the teaching job because she was cute and offered to coach girls volleyball. In fact, she had signed on with the school corp before she had even received her teaching degree. My wife tried, for years, with years of experience, to get a full-time teaching job. Not a chance. Stupid state of Indiana and their stupid education leaders. <aargh!!> Have I made myself clear???! M!ke > At 03:56 PM 3/18/2005, you wrote: > >I can understand why they would send smoething like that home - its a > >good way for the kid to learn, but a photocopied item from almost 15 > >years ago? The district must be hard up. > > > >larry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:150957 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
