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Originally Posted by The Adult Broker
I have about 50 donation requests from the school this year for everything. see my other thread rants.
donate for:
buses for field trips
teacher appreciation week
bake sale
silent auction
Gym fund
art fund
library fund
gardening fund
green team fund
book fund
donate supplies to the classroom
donate food drive
volunteer for reading
volunteer for office help
volunteer in classroom.
help teacher who is sick
volunteer to build a booth at the fair
pay for the booth
supply the booth...
they are laying off tons of teachers, the principal just gave notice after 10 years and leaving 3 weeks before school is out. This is a TOP 5 school!
Now, I am being asked to donate $4 for the drinking water in the classroom so my kid doesn't go thirsty? And at the end of school year they send a notice home like this?
I always pack her a water bottle but I am seriously pissed at this request, insulted actually.
Am I wrong? I mean water? should I pay their gas bill. electric, salaries too? thought I already did with tax dollars that go nowhere. I've already contributed a ton and a ton of volunteer time on top of all it takes to raise a kid. 
Governor Terminator: Hope you have enough water to put the Santa Barbara fires out!!  |
the funds request is ridiculous, and even more so is the fact that there is not drinking water in the classroom through a fountain or sink.
Part of my time in elementary school was spent here in Arizona (went to Nebraska for a long time but came back) and every classroom had a water fountain in it and the teachers would line us up both before and after recess and randomly throughout the day to make us drink water.
The situation in California is absurd, and part of it stems from a stupid ballot initiative from some three decades ago when caps were put on property taxes in several areas (some of them very posh). The end result is a person with a decent sized house with a generous (though not excessive) yard in Nebraska pays more on their property taxes annually than someone living in Bel Air, California. Where do they get the resources to run schools when property taxes are kept low because of an old law that wasn't properly thought out?