“Private” Property
on 03/08/2007 at 10:49 AM
Great. A new batch of good little communists who will continue to ruin America.
My youngest child’s school does the same thing with the “community” stuff. Fortunately, not all supplies are community, and the list of things to get identifies what is community and what is personal. So, she gets the nice stuff for her personal items and what is cheapest and on sale goes to the community bin. Funny how that particular community bin get FILLED with CHEAP stuff. Glad to know that most parents feel the same way about it as I do.
In spite of that, I have no complaints at all about her teacher or the quality of education she receives. This woman is incredible and has gone far beyond what I would ever expect a teacher to go for the educational welfare of my daughter.
IF YOU CAN STOMACH IT—the full article may be accessed HERE.
In our district we pay (proportionally) the highest property tax in the US, have no school buses for the high school (lie, there are buses in addition to the ‘short’ buses) so that was an additional $60 a month, plus we paid an instructional fee - another $79 a year [btw, not on any ‘official forms’ but in ‘the newspaper’ we handed out with all the registration papers - which is why mine was late, I don’t read the peripheral trash], an of course a fee for all the science, music, sports and art ‘programs’ and yes we did too do the ‘community property’ stuff.
It is typical liberalism taken to the wrong extreme. Instead of petioning Uncle Sugar to supply for the needy or even encouraging donations (how about from the PTA, like maybe a fundraiser) everyone is instead forced to provide for all. . .
Meanwhile those self same people do not own their own homes and thus are not contributing dime one to their own little Fetus and Olphelias education or the school and at the same time the districts are paying some over educated bureaucrat 100 grand a year to ‘run’ things. . .
Another misplaced priority and money down the drain instead of going to the real need teachers, infastructure, books and the CHILDREN. Another liberal agenda taking more money to be part of the problem and not doing a damn thing toward the solution.
I’m not a parent, so I have no dog in this fight so to speak, but I see some disturbing
trends that smell of socialism:“From our conversations, several themes emerged.
Collectivity is a good thing…
...A house is good because it is a community house…
...It’s important to have the same amount of power as other people over your building. And it’s important to have the same priorities…
...Little kids have more rights now than they used to and older kids have half the rights...We should have equal houses. They should be standard sizes....As teachers, we were excited by these comments. The children gave voice to the value that collectivity is a solid, energizing way to organize a community — and that it requires power-sharing, equal access to resources, and trust in the other participants. They expressed the need, within collectivity...”
Hmm, three times that I counted, the (buzz) word “collectivity’ appears; smells not like teen spirit but socialism. Was it something Marx (Karl not Groucho) said about “to each according to his need”?. Ah well, it’s Seattle wadda you expect?, too much Starbucks and reefer, not enough sunshine.
