• 👽🍻👽@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While I totally agree with you, this meme isn’t referring to college text books. It’s referring to school supplies and clothes for elementary school children.

    The vast majority of public schools in the US are severely underfunded and don’t have enough supplies like markers, disinfectant, crayons, pencils, etc to provide kids and teachers don’t make very much money, yet they often come out of pocket to buy supplies. What has happened as a result, is parents have to purchase many of these supplies to send to school with their kids for the whole classroom to have the items they need. I have three kids in kindergarten and second grade. Their school supply lists were about $150 each. With creative shopping for sales, we managed to get everything about $150 cheaper than listed. We are waiting for the tax-free weekend to buy clothes for all of them.

    Gotta love the good ol’ US of A and it’s hatred of the poors.

    • Sanctus@crystals.rest
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      1 year ago

      This infuriates me every year. I always vote for education budget increases and allocations and shit and nothing ever changes. Almost everythhing passes the buck to the individual citizen and its insane.