this is my cue to mention homeschooling... Dana
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:07:55 -0600, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:150970 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
