Ybrooklynteacher – you realize the Coffee Room is an international web forum for frum Jews of all shapes and colors? Your rant would probably be more effective if you published it in your school newsletter. Your post is completely irrelevant to the vast majority of people on the CR.
Even those of us in the CR who have small kids that wear shoe laces on their shoes and attend kindergarten, probably don’t go to your friend’s school. And even if the do, they probably aren’t in his/her classroom. And even if they are, the people in the CR who read it are not going to go buy new shoes for their kids because of your post. You aren’t even asking for advice, where people might actually have shaychus. You’re just blowing off steam for somebody else’s problem, and you’re doing it in the most irrelevant of places. So how could you expect anything other than cynicism???