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   The Old Wolf said, 6 months ago

   If education were properly funded, districts and teachers would not be reduced to beggary.
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   capnLaz said, 6 months ago

   They’ll NEVER fund ’em enough to piss away enough to try every fad that comes along!
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   trekman58 said, 6 months ago

   @The Old Wolf

   “Beggary” – now THAT’S a word!
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 6 months ago

   @The Old Wolf

   You must live in NJ.
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 6 months ago

   Summer vacation sure went quickly.
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   Dampwaffle said, 6 months ago

   The “administration costs” of any school district expands to absorb any increase in school funding with little or none of any increase going to the classrooms or teachers. Its a sad fact of life.
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   coz69 said, 6 months ago

   Nothing I hated worse than going house to house trying to sell $hit that nobody wants…No kid should ever have to do that!
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   Darren Blair said, 6 months ago

   @The Old Wolf

   All too often, the money is there, but the administration doesn’t utilize it wisely.
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   At the high school I went to, the bulk of the money went to the football team and the womens’ basketball team.
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   Everyone else was on their own.
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   As you can imagine, the entire town is awash in fundraisers because of it. Even band, ROTC, and cheerleading have to have fundraisers just to continue operating.
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   Doctor Toon said, 6 months ago

   Bumper Sticker:
   

   
   “Wouldn’t it be great if schools had all the funding they needed and the military had to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber?”
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    Darren Blair said, 6 months ago

    @Doctor Toon

    Again – no amount of money is enough if the schools aren’t judicious in how they use it.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

    The Teachers need to be a professional class as in Finland, and they should be running the whole show.
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    Chelsea Prochaska said, 6 months ago

    @coz69

    But everyone loves cookies! Good thing I sold girl scout cookies at a time when they were still fairly affordable : /
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    squirrelchaser said, 6 months ago

    There has always been fund raisers, even way back when I was in school. These fund raisers are not to buy text books or to pay the teachers’ salaries, they are for uniforms and such. It is not about increasing funding for education, as others have pointed out.
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    cbrsarah said, 6 months ago

    When I was in school, there was no fund raising. Times sure have changed. I would basically ask the school what the fund raising is for exactly. I really didn’t like my kids going door to door trying to sell something that’s not going to pay for direct education. If it’s for “uniforms and such”, you’re not getting my money. Either use it for actual education or forget about it. If you need uniforms, the people who are needing them should be the ones to pay for them. If you can’t, then you’re out of luck. It’s life and sometimes you have to do without until you are able to afford it.
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