• Fleppensteyn@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    spend an average of $701 per child

    What are you Americans buying for school?

    Some notebooks, agenda, pens, pencil, ruler… It’s not all that expensive

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            5 months ago

            I’m asking if it’s $700 because A) do they buy too much stuff, B) have they got one kid, then how the fuck is it 700, or C) are they breeding like rabbits, have five kids and they’re wondering why shit’s expensive

            It’s a pretty obvious question

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      Most schools have lists of must-haves for children going to them that parents have to buy. A lot of companies take advantage of that and jack up the price of those items. There are also a lot of those things that parents have to buy multiples of at the beginning of the year and hand over to the teacher for the student to have access to over the next 9 months.

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        hand over to the teacher

        Weird. One teacher, so this is elementary school?

        We only have to buy our own stuff starting middle school and it’s only pens and paper and such. And a backpack but mine lasted all 4 years.

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          Yeah, it’s thanks to continual defining of our public schools in order to funnel money to religious and charter schools as well as private schools via voucher programs.