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he got an extra s

 

I always said Ambrosia, then RB said it was Ambrosio so I assumed he researched it. Tomato, tomatoe.

 

naw, it was plural

 

haha. youre my hero.

 

school funding is a sore point around this house.
at the beginning of the year, we get a list of about 40 bucks worth of stuff (markers, pencils, glues, kleenex, ziploc bags, etc) that is required for the classroom. Twenty kids times 40 is around 800, times all the classrooms. Thats a lot of free supplies coming out of the parent's pockets. That doesnt even include the supplies they request 4 or 5 times a year for special projects.They also send out catalogs of premade food, holiday supplies etc. as fundraisers. Then there is the 2 different picture days, both with expensive a$$ packages you are guilted into buying, also fundraising for the school. Don't forget the Scholastic bookfair where not only are some of the profits donated to the school, the teachers make wishlists for parents to buy and donate books to the classroom. Then there is the local stores that donate to the school of your choice when you use their little savings card. All of this is on top of the money that comes out of our pockets in the form of taxes.
I feel like we are supporting our school out of pocket even after we as a community are tapped on taxes. I don't believe there is a gap in school funding, I believe the teacher's unions are doing what they can to badmouth the school system. I've been on every side of funding vs. supplies and I am the most irritated on this one.

my point is that I would rather trade a couple of these crappy projects the kids do in return for the military being able to bomb the crap out of some terrorist nation before they can make my grandchildren dead.

 

There's no debate that education could use more funding in the country. I live in Utah which has the lowest per capita spent per child in the U.S. You can bet I wish more was spent on education.

But keep in mind that when kids come out of school uneducated it's probably 90% the parents fault for not helping their children and 10% lack of resources at the schools. While school supplies, books, teachers and computers will help kids learn, it's the parents who have to motivate and help their children learn. Throwing money at a problem rarely solves it. It takes time and effort on the parents and childrens part. A motivated kid with ratty 10 year old textbooks will learn more than an unmotivated kid at a private school with a laptop and a teacher with a doctrate.

 

We'll always have enough $$$ to fund our military campaigns, but not schools. Oh well.

Speaking of bumper stickers, I saw this one the other day...

I'm not mean, you're just a sissy.

:hsughr:

 

speaking of schools, do you guys know how much Harvard has in their endowment? Billions of dollars, and they get a return of roughly 23% per year. Lets just be a little conservative for a moment and say they only got a 15% return, the amount of intrest they would make on their endowment would be able to fund every single student including grad students for a year. Its kind of intresting that Harvard doesn't pay any taxes on their endowments. Now think about how many other schools have crazy larg endowments, pretty much ever college should be able to fund free education. Its kind of funny how that doesn't happen.

 

i saw a bumper sticker that read

"if you can't feed'em, don't breed'em"

i chuckled....