Where are are taxes going?
By dreamertink
@dfollin (25347)
United States
February 1, 2008 10:29pm CST
Iam so glad that Iam homeschooling my daughter.I remember when my son's were in school my youngest son wanted to play football and they wanted to charge me and I couldn't afford it.Therefore he did not get to play football.They just announced on the news that that same county wants to charge each child for each sport they participate in $100.The booster club raises enough to pay half of the price of each uniform.The public schools are having parents send money in for just about every field trip,charge high prices for lunches,charging for the other after school activities,send money in for art supplies,rent musical instruments,send in tissues,toliet paper,school supplies to share with the class.My sister's niece was in kindergartin at the time and she had to get a computer for homework!
The teachers are under paid,so who is getting our tax dollars?
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
5 Feb 08
This sounds like when I was in school and we were under an austarity budget. That is when tax payers living in a school district repeatedly vote down the school budget. Then a last ditch budget is presented and it's take it or leave it. Then the only money in the austarity budget is to keep the school going with absolute necessities like heat for the school, teachers' salaries, gas for school buses (if applicable, we have one neighborhood school with no buses). Parents have to pay for everything out of pocket. We had to pay for books or share, we had to pay for sports equipment or sit out of gym class, we had to go without lunch because the school cut out the lunch program. We were cut down to 6 hour school days because that was the the longest we could be without food ( I guess our one hour bus trip ride each way didn't count). We had no study halls. Afterschool sports were cut, but after a fast series of fundraisers and donations, the Booster club got us a few popular sports back. If people don't like this situation, they need to get out and vote. The biggest complainers about the austerity budget didn't even know when or how to vote. Let me tell you, we kids back then gave them all a serious education and fast. We had this crap for three years, then the fourth year there wasn't any austerity budget. If austerity budgets are the norm, then you need new board members and different people need to run. Or maybe your community can't afford higher taxes. The kids that get hurt the most are the poor kids. With no school lunch program, they had no food all day at the end of the months. We all suffered because at 12 noon, we all ate in whatever class we were in. Teachers instated unofficial snack time because they couldn't go that long without eating, we shared with some of the poor kids. Home Ec was first come and first serve. I had it as many years in a row as I could get it.
@dfollin (25347)
• United States
12 Feb 08
I also remember in the 1990's when my boys were in school.I was a single parent,getting no child support and on food stamps as well as being partially handicapped.At the begining of the school year I had a friend that would take us shopping and buy then school clothes and supplies that were on the list.One of the things was extra pencils to last them for awhile.So my friend got them each 2-10 pack pencils.Around Thanksgiving time one of my son's came home and told me that the teacher said that he needs to bring in more pencils that he had no more.Here Iam in between paychecks and broke.I went into my desk and gave him 2 used pencils and asked him if he had lost all those pencils.He said,"No" and then I asked him then where are they.He then informed me that when he went to school the first day that the teacher took all his stuff and put it in a closet.The next day I called her and said to her that I had sent him 20 pencils and that should last him the whole year.She then informed me that when the kids come to school the first day all their supplies,except for their big hardbound notebook is put in a closet all they all share because some children cannot afford to buy supplies.I asked her that if I bought a "Superman" for $3 or other theme notebook for my son he probably won't have it.And she said that it was highly unlikely because they all get put into a stack and when it's their turn to get one,then they receive whatever's next. So,my son could end up with a cheaper notebook.I told her well we can't afford it,that a friend buys their supplies from the list every year and she said that she did not know that that I should have told her.There was no letter mailed telling us that if we could not afford the supplies to not buy them and let them know.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
14 Feb 08
That is nuts. Where did they get that teacher from?
How do you keep running into these people?
Whatever was on a list, we bought and got to keep.
Put in a closet? Only if the kid tends to loose things and with their name on it so they can get it back later.
Still check to see if the schools around you are on regular or austarity budgets. Things are getting so bad in places that austerity is the regular budget. And always vote. Local elections, it makes a difference when people vote on school budgets. Take care
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@heidi28 (69)
• United States
7 Feb 08
THE GOVERNMENT THATS WHO! They get so many kick backs its unreal. They want everyone poor and they want all the power they want to tax everything. I am so sick of them I swear if I had a lot of money I would try to over throw the government. I feel like not paying taxes at all. Heck illegal immigrants have it made over here they don't have to pay taxes and get free money whats up with that. Maybe we should all say were illegal immigrants and we might get the freedom that america say its all about.
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@AmbiePam (92865)
• United States
4 Feb 08
Military, legal abortions (yes they do), and every politician's pocket, from local to federal. Welfare for women with 6 kids by 6 different fathers, fathers who run off and leave the women to go it alone. And a lot go to illegals to. They reap the benefits of the hardworking citizens, and the Vietnam vets sleep in the street.
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@Farside604 (870)
• Canada
2 Feb 08
Its really too bad that children should be depreived of sports, its should be free being a public education system and all. As for where all your tax dollars are going, do u really have to ask? *cough* billion dollars a day in iraq *cough*
