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(7,816 posts)the military had to hold a bake sale to pay for a new bomber or tank?
niyad
(113,962 posts)and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber" every time the recruiters were around. They asked me to stop. I told them NO.
LakeArenal
(28,889 posts)Feudal lords dont like an educated public.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,117 posts)onecaliberal
(33,008 posts)The vast majority are grossly underfunded.
Its a matter of priorities. Americas priorities are lining the pockets of the already insanely wealthy.
Grokenstein
(5,730 posts)Gotta build big bang-bangs-go-boom! Even if the personnel to make them go boom are busy dying of the 'rona.
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Nevilledog
(51,299 posts)wnylib
(21,797 posts)for book covers, notebooks, pens and pencils, gym uniforms, too, but also paid for lunch, sports events, and uniforms. Tank suits for the pool were free, but girls bought our own caps for the pool.
School dances and skating parties were free. Clothing was the same.
burrowowl
(17,656 posts)We got book covers from Borden's Dairy and were shown how to put then on.
wnylib
(21,797 posts)buy cheap from the school, but we also bought other ones that were nicer looking if we could do it since they cost more.
Ilsa
(61,717 posts)high speed internet access.Tablets or smartphones are also used in class.
Tshirts are usually fine unless they have satanic or obscene or racist pictures or language.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)When I was a Principal at the turn of this century I had visited Harvard/Cambridge and bought a poster that I placed on my door:
AFTER WE REBUILD IRAQ - CAN WE REBUILD OUR SCHOOLS?
(Unfortunately, every bit as effective as the poster in the OP. )
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)If you look at the history of economic power, it's good education and other infrastructure that makes it happen.
There was a time when the USA had the best schools in the world too, with the highest literacy rates and such.
BigmanPigman
(51,671 posts)Teachers have received little respect in this country. I am sick of being seen as glorified babysitters and a convenience for working parents! I did the math, so did my fellow teachers...we would make more, a lot more, money as an hourly babysitter for each student than as a teacher of 30 kids all day long.
Warpy
(111,466 posts)to keep them in power, people who went to defunded schools dedicated to producing obedient and patriotic workers, not actually delivering an education. This is not the fault of teachers, who delight in students who are curious enough to go beyond the basics and read something besides the watered down textbook. The fault is systemic, created by a system of chronic underfunding of education and low pay for teachers.
It's just one more indication we are a failed state.