Schools ask parents to contribute to basic supplies such as stationery and first aid supplies. The price tag can be four figures, per child, per year.

Public schools ask parents to make voluntary contributions because they need the funds…

State governments have consistently not met their funding targets for public schools. On current timelines – and provided future governments deliver the funds – schools will not have their full funding entitlements until 2034.

This puts school principals in a very difficult situation. Their schools are not properly funded by the government and there are limits to their ability to seek additional funds from parents.

2034? Do they really want our public education to fall further behind? I don’t understand how they can justify this.

        • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zipEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Yeah they are quick to jump to the defense of their favorite authoritarians.

          Is that ban like highlighted in my profile or something? Or was it that memorable?

          • porcoesphino@mander.xyzEnglish
            2·
            8 hours ago

            Ah, sorry for highlighting it like this

            To be honest, from a single comment you could have been a bot so I scanned your comments and modlog

            And to me it’s a bit memorable because I haven’t found lemmy.ml channels to be pleasant but it’s not something you know when you join Lemmy. I just slowly noticed my comments there frequently lead to large numbers of people disagreeing in ways I found unpleasant so now I don’t subscribe to channels from the instance and am pretty quick to block anyone from the instance

            Anyway, I’m happy to delete the comment if you want. Just let me know

            • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zipEnglish
              3·
              5 hours ago

              Oh it’s fine. I was just curious, like maybe is shown up in a power tripping mod post or something. I’ve now blocked the instance. I think I had on my Lemmy account, but was trying out piefed and I guess I missed it.