School & Pet Peeve. . .

I agree. And as much as I believe supporting public schools are the

responsibility of all citizens, not just parents…I have no problem putting out

a bit more for the supplies that my kids use. I look for sales and its not bad.

I don’t believe anyone can be forced to purchase these supplies. But those who

can, should. In my opinion, at least.

Donna NJ

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From: Lori Morgan <lmorgan74@excite.com>

Date: 2007/07/27 Fri PM 05:24:34 CDT

To: Budget101_@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Budget101.com : School & Pet Peeve. . .

I don’t think this is odd at all. I can remember growing up and my

parents buying us school supplies (I am in my 30’s). I never had a

school supply list that didn’t look the same as what I am seeing

this year for my kindergarten. In fact, it seems alot cheaper than

what my parents bought for us in the 80’s. We always had to have a

certain color folder or notebook and we ALWAYS had to supply

kleenex. Even in Jr. High we had to supply a box to home room.

My apologies, but it seems like it’s the way it has always been.

Truthfully, I don’t want the school district to raise my property

taxes with a reason of “paying for this stuff.” I’d much rather fund

it on my own terms.

Lori

Texas

— In Budget101_@yahoogroups.com, “Randi Swartz”

wrote:

>

> Wow! My oldest starts school next year and I’m not even interested

in

> dealing with that. ugh. how irritating!!!

i really hope our

district isn’t

> that bad, but then again, i live in the dc metro county of

montgomery, and

> this is supposedly either the richest in maryland or close to it,

so who

> knows what they’ll require.