Public Schools aren't supposed to be an experiment in Social Collectivism...

I remember going out shopping for school supplies, the school having provided a list of all the things a child is supposed to need & use in my grubby little hands.

So, I'm going down these extensive lists, and asked redundantly: "What about the kids that can't afford all this crap?"

Both Kay AND Bree chimed up simultaneously with, "That's why we have so much - we put it all together and share..."

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...oh HELL no!

I'm struggling as it is in this economy - I'm not subsidizing someone else's kids too! Since when did my kids HAVE to give up their property to other students because the teacher strong-arms them to?

In most trains of thought, that's called THEFT or RACKETEERING.

When did public school become a social collective? Didn't communist/socialist theory get proven a sham by the fall of the Berlin Wall & the implosion of the Soviet Union? Last I knew, this country was a democratic republic! Should I go up to the school teacher and say, "I don't have enough gas to get home, so I'm going to share some of yours!"

(Apologies to my teacher friends - I KNOW you're already underpaid AND put out your own $$ for supplies - but this pisses me off)

Well - one of the supplies on the list was a pencil box for each...

...did you know Target sells LOCKING pencil boxes? :-)

Social collectivism, my fat white ass...