I'm 52, so it's been a long time since I was in school, but back then the school furnished all our textbooks and supplies and now I hear teachers are having to buy supplies with their own money and students are given a list of stuff they have to buy for school,
and textbook chapters are being copied and handed out because the school cant afford to give students textbooks.
What happened? And what do poor kids do that cant afford to buy all that stuff?
2006-09-01 18:37:38 · 9 answers · asked by opjames 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
Well complain to our government. They spend billions on war and supposedly helping other countries get on their feet. Yet can't do the same for their own country.
2006-09-01 18:39:42 · answer #1 · answered by Simmy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
its not the fact that we dont give enough to the schools, because we give plenty. the teachers have to be paid, and we just have to have new facilitys, actual education is an after thought for them. teacher unions are to blame. they demand higher pay and also make it rediculously imposible to get a bad teacher fired. the whole system has to be reformed, and we need to look towards the more succesful countries for inspiration. one thing i do know however, the unions must go. they are counter productive.
2006-09-02 02:09:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Republicans
2006-09-02 01:42:54 · answer #3 · answered by Lee J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, now days kids are too busy saving up their money to buy a gun so they can shoot their teachers. Maybe taxes should be spent on a new "Kevlar for Classmates" program.
2006-09-02 02:06:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
...looks at administrators salaries, all the teachers unions and janitors unions
...we spent more per student than any other nation in the world in 1993 and still had 3.4 MILLION students dropping out.
2006-09-02 01:48:25 · answer #5 · answered by R J 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all the money goes to salaries in the system first. The children get the last consideration. Everybody wants, needs, waits for, a raise.
everyone has to "get theirs"
2006-09-02 01:40:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What happened? More kids happened. There are a lot more children enrolled in school than there were when you were in school.
2006-09-02 01:38:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
our taxes went under the table
2006-09-02 01:38:39 · answer #8 · answered by B pyro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
teachers on drugs..
2006-09-02 01:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by portlandutb503 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋