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  1. 12 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    You are complaining about having to give a gift card, call it $500 a year in sum, to a school that you are paying for already via property tax.

    Now try being a parent or grandparent of private school kids paying full tuition but still paying into a public school and not having a way to flex that down.

    My point isn't that private school families should not have to pay for public school. My point is, It is what it is and you shouldn't complain.

    So don’t send your kids to private school? Not sure what your point is? This makes you sound like a bigger asshole than me complaining about the teacher gifts. I’m sure those private school teaches get gifts too.

     

     

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  2. All valid points I don't disagree with. One thing I will suggest is if your wife has a classroom parent that helps coordinate and organize activities she should tell her where she prefers the gift cards come from. That's basically how it is at my kid's school. If a teacher likes target then they get a bunch of target gift cards, if they like Starbucks then they get a bunch of Starbucks gift cards. My oldest son, his teacher this last year liked to go to the movies so my wife got the money from the rest of the parents and went and picked up one big Cinemark gift card to give for teacher appreciation week.

  3. 3 hours ago, sasquatch69 said:

    While I don’t entirely disagree with your premise, I want to note a key distinction here: these teachers are not using those gift cards to “supplement their income”. In the case of my wife and many of her colleagues, they’re using those cards to buy classroom supplies that they are given no budget to purchase because of the continued degradation of school funding in our state - or, using them to buy protein bars to keep on hand since budgets for free breakfasts and lunches have been severely cut by our esteemed governor.

    The poster TexasJeff was asking for money to supplement teacher pay. That's what I was responding to. We provide supplies too as classroom parents and through teacher supply drives. I was just venting about the endless ask for more parent money to supplement what our taxes should be paying for to being with.

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  4. Regarding the gift giving culture that permeates elementary school classrooms these days, it’s fucked up I should be expected to give gift cards 4-5 times a school year to teachers for doing their jobs instead of being able to send my kids to public school I pay for where the teachers are paid enough not to need my Target and Starbucks gift cards to supplement their income. Plenty of people work for similar salaries and don’t have  these expectations. Also it’s mainly a middle class and up school districts where this happens and those teachers are not dealing with the worst of worst conditions that lower class and poverty stricken schools and districts are dealing with. So yes we fall into the peer pressure of a couple hundred bucks a year to help our kid’s teachers out that my mom never got teaching in lower income areas. But my wife’s mom taught in nicer areas and thinks it’s the norm so then so does my wife.

     

    /rant over

  5. 30 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    This is relatively new data around a disliked regime.  I stand by the original comment I made. What you linked is akin to Trump approval ratings. 


    lol you can stand by being wrong? How stupid are you?

     

    This chart goes back 50 years and outside of republicans most other voting demographics have dipped to around 50% for decades.

     

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  6. I’m cracking up at the idea of a bunch of broadway actors in cop uniforms sashaying and jazz handing their way into an ICE facility. Where do I donate for this to happen?

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