“Why are parents subsidizing the textbooks and drama classes schools should be paying for?”
ut mostly I’ll be writing checks for all the things that public school doesn’t pay for anymore.
I was sifting through my check register the other day and here’s how this academic year has added up:
The required locker fee was $5, then $200 for cross-country booster fee, $9 for a vocabulary book (since when do schools make us pay for textbooks?), $240 for bus transportation for my youngest kid, $100 for drama booster fee, $70 for dance booster fee, $45 for associated student body fee, $150 for track booster fee, $23 for required summer-reading books, $50 toward grad night — I’ve written more than $800 in checks for a free and public education.
That doesn’t count various donations or incidentals. At least one spending decision was easy — I’m boycotting the PTA until it starts holding meetings when parents with regular working hours can attend.
