I’m gobsmacked. Our school district offers back to school kits that you can buy at the end of the school year for the next school year. Here is the list for a 1st grader… now let’s play “The Price is NOT 🤬 Right.”
What’s the actual (are you kidding me) retail price?
@MotherDucker 4 boxes of 24 count crayons? Are they eating the other 3 boxes? The fuck?
@ProjectShadow @MotherDucker no, all the extra stuff is for the kids whose parents cannot afford to buy school supplies at all. you can't get any of this stuff on SNAP or WIC
@redenigma @ProjectShadow of course I am also old enough to remember going to the school where my mom taught and that public school had a massive storage room full of supplies bought and paid for by the taxes that funded the district. So. There’s that level of disappointment rolled into this discourse as well.
@MotherDucker @ProjectShadow yes!
and add that teachers who spend their own money (which has in no way kept up with cost of living) to buy supplies for the classroom are only allowed to deduct something like $200 of that from their taxes...