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At my niece's (public) grade school, parents are not allowed to buy school supplies for their children. The parents pay a fee up front, and the school buys the supplies and gives them to the children. This was done to ensure that no one had better or fancier supplies than anyone else.

In other words, the school is communist!

Wait until these little slackers hit the real world out here. After getting fired from the 10th job they'll just camp out at the Democrat welfare plantation the rest of their lives and moan about The Man keepin' 'em down.

As a middle school Social Studies teacher I can agree completely with Chuck in St. Paul. This generation of students has ABSOLUTELY no concept of personal responsibility.

I live in DFW area and my son's school did this last year. We just moved here and I was just shocked that they wouldn't penalize or hold the student accountable for deadlines. They would get full credit if they did the work even at the end of the semester.

My son spent 6 weeks on our lockdown until he caught up. We found out about his missing deadlines only when his report card came and we finally were able to log into the school's website and see he was missing huge chunks of work.

This is coming from a Texas Recognized school! I thought Cali was bad, this is horrific.

And all the little animals will finally be equal... in the silence of the grave.

Socialism abdicates personal responsibility by it's very nature.

At my niece's (public) grade school, parents are not allowed to buy school supplies for their children.
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at August 15, 2008 9:54 AM

My nephew's school has a parallel policy with the same communistic underpinnings. When a child has a birthday, the parents are prohibited from sending a batch of cupcakes to have a party. You see, if a student from a different class saw the party and got no cupcakes, he would feel left out and it would hurt his self esteem.

The school also stated that one child's parent may bring "better" treats than another's parent brought, so...

Solution? Nobody gets any.

"No child left behind." What more (or is it "less?) would you expect from this mentality? Of course, the flip side of that coin is "No child gets ahead," because if he did, then others would be left behind. It's all so logical, peons.

And whatever you do, keep voting these people back in office. We've come so far that we can't stop now!

I'm a high school teacher (let me say first, so you get my perspective)
Personally, I don't understand how this would work. Why would teachers take this lieing down. As a teacher, I would say "no." I think the teachers should stand up and fight it. Can they?

We have lives. We have so much work to do. When I give an assignment, I carve out a set time in my busy days to evaluate that assignment. Then, it's done! I don't want to revisit it two or three months down the line. I hate when progress report time rolls around, and Little Johnny brings me some activity/assignment that was due August 18, for example, and today is September 25, and he actually thinks I should stop what I'm doing and grade it!!

My school system is not like that...yet. Who knows what's coming. However, I did have one crazy principal one year. He was full of all those bleeding-heart liberal ideas. He tried to get us to not give a "zero" to a student for doing nothing. His theory was, that all the differences in letter grades are 6 points. (ex: 94%-100% is an A. 88%-93% is a B...etc.) BUT...an F covers the entire range of 0% to 69%. He claimed that it was "unfair" to give a "zero" and wanted us to give a "higher F" (69%) to a student on an assignment that he/she DID NOT EVEN DO!!! He thought that was a great idea and would promote better success in students. He never came right out and told the teachers we were required to do this, but it was suggested. And, what is crazier, he read it in an educational journal somewhere, written by someone else who actually got his stupid idea published!!

Of course, I did not do that. My theory is "I can't grade what you don't give me." If you turn in nothing, you get nothing. Why would we teach kids this about the real world: Go to work and do absolutely nothing. But you can get paid 69 cents for every dollar that someone else gets paid who is actually working.

Isn't that sorta what welfare is????? Do nothing and get paid??? And people want us to start instilling this notion in kids at an early age???

crazy times, crazy times!!

Every day it becomes easier to understand why the government schools are terrified of competition from the private sector.

When did Texas become such big socialist pussies?

I know that most Texans ignore the fact that the state is being over run by illegals, and they don't care.

Wait, very soon, guns will not be allowed in Texas, and all of the people who ignored the treat will wake up = too late.

Oh so sad, too bad.