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Teachers come in a lot of skill levels. Some teachers kids learn because of and some teachers, kids learn in spite of. There are teachers who some kids love, and other kids hate the same teacher. My kid currently has a sarcastic, sardonic, funky, dry-witted language arts teacher. My son...

I do a lot of photocopying for the PTA. At five cents a page, photocopying prices add up. So one twenty page packet per week per student at my kid's elementary school would be about $850/week. Teachers do photo copy, they do use online textbooks, they do use textbooks for classrooms, all of...

Exactly, Anderson! And get your butt into the school. I'm at my kid's elementary school a minimum of three days a week as a volunteer. I'm not currently volunteering at the middle school. Yes, I am a stay at home mom, and I realize that not everyone can volunteer every week. But you can...

Back to the OPs rant. I would be ticked if my kid was expected to buy textbooks for the class, and I didn't know that going in. I wouldn't be complaining to the teacher. The principal and the superintendent would be hearing about. It sounds like a district funding issue, not a particular...

The principal at my school supervises 80 people, she manages the school budget, is responsible for training those people, is there at least 2 evenings every week, is answerable to 650 sets of parents, the district, the school board and the NCLB folks. She manages a 90,000 square foot facility...

Again, public school teachers are not unionized in Texas. Yes, Texas spends way to much on sports, particularly football. My local high school has freshman A and B teams, JV A and B teams and varsity football. Five teams, one high school. The biggest difference I see between public and...

Texas, where the OP is located, doesn't have unionized schools. Here, building money and running the school money come out of different pots. If a district passed a bond for building schools or updating fields, then the voters have voted on it, and the money must be spent for that specific...