I am too. And I am all in support of after-school programming, since it gives kids various options that they might not get. A lot of the kids in the district I attended had parents who worked until 7:00 or later, and the programs allowed these kids to get homework help, take part in extracurricular activities, and get…

No problem :)

Thank you.

You wonder what the husband's opinions are and you are insinuating that she is a single mom.

That is great that they could provide school supplies. Yeah, I am living in the South and it is a goddamn nightmare for some parents. The neighbor boy offered to mow our lawn for $10, and since we don't own a lawnmower, we accepted. I unfortunately realized that he was immediately giving that money back to his family…

I cannot start this enough. Also, why do we not have low-cost after school care yet? The YMCA by me costs like $90 a month.

I think the lack of a parental structure is a major part of this too, although it states it was her wedding ring, I haven't seen/heard her husband's response to this issue as of yet.

That's it. By the time I got to high school, the rule was that you couldn't use red or pink pens and that you had to use a pencil on math tests. Other than that, you could take notes on cocktail napkins and no one would give a crap.

Well, you were the one to tell me to fuck off, the one blaming a woman for being single, and etc. In the long run, if you don't realize the complex nature of poverty and that your experience is not the overarching experience of most living in poverty, you will lose in the long run.

You sound like such a lovely person - that divine blend of classist, racist, sexist, and all-around deluded.

Parents have to pay for everything. The worst used to be when I was in junior high and each teacher required very specific supplies for each subject. That's eight subjects with their own very specific binders, folders, pens, pencils, etc. My parents' bill for school supplies was like $300+ per year for those three…

If your husband considers teaching "suffering", he needs a new job.

What material are the bootstraps you used made of? I'm sure the poor would like to know.

Where the Hell do you live? Where I live, welfare doesn't 'cover it all for free' (in fact, you can only receive welfare for a maximum of two years per lifetime) and there are no public buses within a three mile radius. Nice try.

Okay, I love these. They make me think of my Ghostbusters-obsessed big brother.

Yeah, and where I grew up, pay for summer school teachers as well as other costs, were budgeted in to the annual budget. It's a year-long budget, not a 183 day budget.

Obviously you don't understand the complex nature of poverty, racism, and education in this country. Check your privilege.

You do realize that children living in poverty do, on average, have poorer attendance records than children not living in poverty? This is due to multiple factors: lack of childcare, lack of reliable transportation, increased health problems, etc.

Oh my God. That is so terrible. I am sorry.

Seriously, so a kid is failing school and we tell the parents that they have to pay or have their kid retained? I can not explain how many shades of fucked this is.