DUmmies like p2B Anne Pritchett are wildly in favor of increased taxes, as long as it's something they won't have to pay. If it affects them, it's an outrage:
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-11-10 12:27 PM
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School District Charging Fee For Kindergarten
EUDORA, Kan. – While you pay an admission fee to get into an amusement park, one school district is charging a fee to get into kindergarten.
The Eudora School Board voted to start charging a $100 fee per child to enroll in full or half-day kindergarten.
The move is expected to generate thousands of dollars. That money is expected to help reduce the district’s $400,000 budget shortfall.
Board members also voted to shorten the 2010-2011 school year by ten days to help reduce costs.
As a result, school days will be extended anywhere from 15 to 22 minutes per day.
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/local/story/School-Di...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8130583#8131180So a town in Kansas will have a small fee to participate in taxpayer-funded daycare. They call it school, but back in the day of 35-pupil classrooms, before unionized teachers, when kids came out of public school with the ability to read, to write clearly, and to do simple math, there was no such thing as kindergarten in most towns. The big impetus for kindergarten seems to have been LBJ's brainchild, the ghetto-based Headstart, which is one reason inner-city kids are such high achievers today. Now, nearly everywhere, taxpayers fund 13 years of school instead of twelve, a class of 15 kids is normal, and the typical graduate is dumber than a stump.
Catshrink (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-11-10 01:25 PM
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6. Exactly
too many think kindergarten is just babysitting. It isn't and kids who don't have it fall far behind their peers very quickly. I think it's one of the most important years in school and I applaude kindergarten teachers -- all elementary teachers. They do the heavy lifting.
Kindergarten isn't babysitting. Babysitters are available in the evening.
Catshrink (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-11-10 01:32 PM
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7. It is really tough on families with more than one child.
Our district has a fund for those who can't pay - but there's a form of some kind. I usually make a general comment at the start of the year about this and tell kids to talk to their guidance counselor. I also assure them that this is kept confidential and that I will never know. I don't know how many follow through on this because it is confidential.
Now DUmmy Anne gives a little insight into what kind of parent she was:
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-11-10 02:18 PM
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15. I refused to pay and nothing happened
I would call the principal every year and tell him that because my child is entitled to a FREE public education, I wasn't going to pay the fees. When my kid was a senior in high school, the principal said I should make sure and pay for a yearbook if he wanted one. And I did.
I never felt bad about not paying because the fees were always for extra curricular stuff my kid didn't do. Why should he pay a sports fee when he didn't play a sport or even go to any games? He took private music and art lessons so there was no need for him to pay an arts fee either.
I have taught in a school district for 30 years that has never charged fees. So I know they don't absolutely have to charge them. It's a freakin scam.
You have to suspect that being raised by a hateful, obnoxious person like Anne is the main reason the kid landed in prison.
