As students across New York City return to school, some parents are fuming over the cost of the supplies their children have been asked to bring to class.
WCBS 880’s Marla Diamond is one of them and says she’s spent $500 on supplies for her son this year, who attends a public school on the Upper West Side.
According to the president of the New York City Parents Union, Mona David, it’s a city-wide problem.
“It’s really unreasonable and insensitive,” she said.
Davids, who lives in the Bronx, estimates she spent nearly $200 for her first grader’s supplies.
“Per pupil funding for New York City school students really is one of the highest per pupil funding in the nation. So the question is what is happening with the money?” Davids asked.
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Yawn. I would LOVE to spend $500 on school supplies and get free schooling.
Let them pay tuitions and transportation and then complain. Public School is free and you get what you pay for.
A Public School PTA came to our community organization asking for a donation to pay for a school trip. Such chutzpah! Why can’t the parent shell out a little money. If all our costs were $500, we would have been thrilled.
I love how $500 is a tuition crisis for goyim. Deblasio will come up with “universal school supplies” to combat this problem while continuing to ignore vouchers for yeshivas.
What exactly does a goy have to buy? The textbooks are free.
I guess they need an iPad, iPod, iPhone, etc…
So far for this year I had to get Looseleafs with dividers, Filler paper, Folders, notebooks, pencils, pink erasers, hole punch, crayons, graphing calculator, Sketch Pad, Siddur, Chumash (Mikro’os Gedolos), Nach, Mishnayos, Oz Vehadar Gemara (with Rif), Mishneh Berura, Mussar, Kovetz, etc…
I still remember when I got my first iPotch!
And if you’ve got a few children in school!?!?
What got my goat when we had to spend money on school supplies was the list was sometimes put together by a first time teacher, a single girl, who hasn’t a clue of what the needs really are. Or what things cost! Ridiculous demands that cost a fortune. And the children can’t be told that Mommy will make the purchases as needed because the child will be irreparably damaged for life if Heaven forbid there were only six notebooks and not nine! And five or six of those notebooks are excess. Isn’t there an overseer who looks over the lists?
Oh well! That’s life!