School fees and such

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School fees and such
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Wed, 08-27-2008 - 6:47pm

For those of you that don't read the dyk thread, we have been talking about school fees in public schools.

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Fri, 08-29-2008 - 4:09pm

I can understand not wanting to pay high fees for school; most people don't expect public schools to be so expensive!


I went to a Catholic school & have no idea how expensive tuition was.

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Fri, 08-29-2008 - 6:42pm

I'm with you on those types of things...especially if they are turning them in. As homeroom teachers, we only collect 2 boxes of Kleenex, 1 roll of paper towels, and 1 box of baby wipes. The rest of the stuff on their list is for them to keep and keep up with. That means I have to buy my own pencils & loose leaf paper for students who don't have it. (One, who has a very supportive mom, actually told me last year that her mom won't buy her any more paper because she wastes it on notes & doodles. But, yet her academics were now suffering...hello!)

I do have them turn in their composition book because that's their journal, but they do so with their own name on it. I ended up supplying 7 of these this year (I bought 6 comp books, then 10 spirals...and I had to use 1 spiral). I also had to supply about 8-10 purple folders (the color they use as notebooks for my class).



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Fri, 08-29-2008 - 6:44pm

LOL...that happens to pens in my house.



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Fri, 08-29-2008 - 6:50pm

We don't ask for hand sanitizer. I have some on my desk for myself--last year, I had 2 students that would ask to use it, and I let them. It didn't become an issue, thankfully. But I'm not willing to have it as a supply in my classroom.

And it just doesn't serve the same purpose as soap & water. I use it before I go eat lunch, but I also used it today because I was fooling with pond water for an activity in every class.

Plus, there's the new "scare" about children ingesting it and dying. While I know it was accidental with an elementary school girl....what do you think middle schoolers (particularly boys) would do...they'd mess with it for fun. Too much liability for me to be comfortable with it.





Edited 8/29/2008 6:56 pm ET by alygator

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Fri, 08-29-2008 - 6:50pm
Here too.And as for pencils Gabby probably goes through several a week.They evenually turn up again,She has pencil pouches in each binder and they have at least 10 pencils in each pouch.

 

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Sat, 08-30-2008 - 10:04am

Here, school sports are budgeted in.

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Sat, 08-30-2008 - 10:17pm

I will answer that one as a teacher lol.

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