What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Valmy]

Never heard of parents or teachers donating stuff to schools, or school fund raising.  Parents are responsible for providing supplies for their own kids.  If they can't afford the supplies, they can apply for government assistance, which is subject to a means test. 

This is not for supplies for the kids. This is supplies for the classrooms. This is for supplies for the schools. We already spend plenty of money on school supplies for our own kids. This is on top of that.

What are supplies for classrooms? 

If you are talking about stuff like chalk or blackboards, then there is even less chance for parents or teachers to pay for them.  The government pays for that kind of stuff. 

But it doesn't. Why it doesn't I have no idea.

[11B4V]

Never heard of parents or teachers donating stuff to schools, or school fund raising.  Parents are responsible for providing supplies for their own kids.  If they can't afford the supplies, they can apply for government assistance, which is subject to a means test. 

This is not for supplies for the kids. This is supplies for the classrooms. This is for supplies for the schools. We already spend plenty of money on school supplies for our own kids. This is on top of that.

Spot on Valmy. We do the same at my daughter's school.

[Monoriu]

But it doesn't. Why it doesn't I have no idea.

If the government doesn't pay for school supplies, then we do without.  I remember that the first three years of my school, we used blackboards full of holes.  A third of the blackboard areas were not usable.  Pre-war or something.  Teachers, classrooms, tables, chairs, textbooks, paper and pencil.  That's all you really need.

[garbon]

[grumbler]

Schools buy the materials that the school administration thinks are most useful.  I think that having every kid use highlighters to mark their thesis, evidence, keys words, citations, and analysis before submitting their work is a powerful tool that forces them to pre-judge their work (and even fix it) before I see it.  But I have to buy all of those highlighters myself; they aren't standard.  That's maybe $200 per year right there.

[Monoriu]

We used pencils to underline important parts.  Two lines to mark the really important stuff. 

[grumbler]

If the government doesn't pay for school supplies, then we do without.  I remember that the first three years of my school, we used blackboards full of holes.  A third of the blackboard areas were not usable.  Pre-war or something.  Teachers, classrooms, tables, chairs, textbooks, paper and pencil.  That's all you really need.

That's not the way modern, useful teaching is done.

[Valmy]

If the government doesn't pay for school supplies, then we do without.  I remember that the first three years of my school, we used blackboards full of holes.  A third of the blackboard areas were not usable.  Pre-war or something.  Teachers, classrooms, tables, chairs, textbooks, paper and pencil.  That's all you really need.

Maybe if they had had better supplies you might have done better on your exams

Anyway I don't know why things are the way they are Mono, I just do what the school asks me to do if I can.

[Monoriu]

If the government doesn't pay for school supplies, then we do without.  I remember that the first three years of my school, we used blackboards full of holes.  A third of the blackboard areas were not usable.  Pre-war or something.  Teachers, classrooms, tables, chairs, textbooks, paper and pencil.  That's all you really need.

Maybe if they had had better supplies you might have done better on your exams

Anyway I don't know why things are the way they are Mono, I just do what the school asks me to do if I can.

Nope.  If they had better supplies, other people would have benefited more than me

[Admiral Yi]

The Chinese have low social capital and no sense of community, only kinship ties.  Of course volunteerism is going to be an alien concept.

[Razgovory]

I believe teachers get a small tax credit for supplies.  Something like 250 bucks a year.

[The Brain]

Why do teachers put up with that crap? If my boss told me that I would have to pay for job equipment I would laugh in his face.

[garbon]

Trump: 'I'm thinking about' pulling ICE out of California

[Sophie Scholl]

Trump: 'I'm thinking about' pulling ICE out of California

I was hoping this would get brought up.  Seems like a disastrous move.

[Eddie Teach]

Way to show you're tough on illegals, Donnie.