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Washington Times
by Gary Emerling
School districts across the region are preparing to cut most nonessential classrooms needs - from bus routes to class trips - as a result of budget deficits created by the troubled national economy.
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Parents in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County, like others across the country, are again this year being asked to provide schools with staples such as soap and tissue paper.
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"Parents in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County, like others across the country, are again this year being asked to provide schools with staples such as soap and tissue paper."
It's their kids. I guess they would prefer someone else to provide what their kids need.
To anonymous - uh, well, yes. Darned tootin! Especially when the school system is billing more than 10 grand a year to educate a kid. Boarders, the zoo, Chucky Cheeze, Safeway, and even Wawa provides soap and tissue paper for my kids when the need arises in their establishment. I'm not expecting schools to provide notebooks, bookbags, pencils and paper, but, yes, soap, running water, tissue paper... it's a part of doing business in a civilized, industrialized country. We're not living in a Third World Country! If they'd stop wasting money on technology that is really unnecessary (you and I learned pleanty without computers in the classroom) and equipment thats often outdated before it hits the classroom they would have money to buy soap for my kid to wash his hands with after toileting and before eating. Where are the priorities? Money flows for laptops, fancy phones and graphing calculators but there's no money for soap, chalk, and tissue paper? Huh? Who's watching Fort Knox?
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