...has much father reaching issues that what it seemed to have...
I just went off on a friend because he told me that one, my problem could be solved with a simple trip to the dollar store and that it was supposedly common knowledge that school supplies are common property and then something about as a parent in todays comminuty it's only a small part of what I can do to make sure today's children grow up to be educated adults.
Brace yourself but here's my shining selfish moment. I don't really give a rats ass about other parent's children like that. My children and their needs will always comes before anyone else's children. Now if a friend came to me and said that they needed my help and could I please help them buy buying a few school supplies that's different. What am I supposed to say? Be patient and send your child to school with nothing? That since it's all community property the community of parents will make sure that the child has it? No! I'm going to help my friend and their child out if I can but even then there's a limit to which my generosity extends. If helping my friend and their child detriments my child and I have to make a choice, believe me, my children will win the coin toss no matter if they were standing under heads or tails.
As long as my children grow up to be educated adults I consider my job accomplished. I can't honestly think that Mary Sunshine who's kid sits next to my daughter in school is as concerned with my daughter being an educated adult as she is with her own son.
And Yes, I know this speaks to people not supporting each other but WTFever man.
I come from New Jersey. I come from a time when the little stuff was provided. I am NOT talking about pencils and notebook paper. I am talking about Copy paper and tissues. Exactly how do i know that my copy paper is being used for the class and not for the office to run off coppies of a news letter that maybe three parents out of the school read? How do I know that the teacher is using the copy paper to run off papers for her class. I have volunteered in class and I have seen with my own eyes that when a teacher goes in the copy room to make copies of something for her class, they DO NOT pick up a pack of copy paper out of their classroom supply closet, they use whatever paper was in the copier and should the copier run out they go into the big supply closet in the copy room to get more paper. Anyone can go in that closet. So I'm supplyig to the whole school not just my childs class. My helping support my daughters class just jumped to my helping support an entire school.
Damn that makes me feel like the old lady who lived in a shoe that had so many kids she didn't know what to do.
Let me state this one more time: My problem is not that I was asked to provide more tissues. It is not that I spent seventeen cents on another woman's child. My issue is that I was told that I had to provide said tissues because other parents didn't. That I wasn't told that this is what they were doing. Ask me. Don't demand. Inform, don't assume.
If I could afford it, I would homeschool my children. I would make sure that they become educated adults. That MY children succeed. If I had the money, I would give a damn if there was a person I didn't know standing up on the graduation stage with my child. But I dont' have it like that. Not very manypeople have it like that.
Say what you want. Feel the way you want. But do me a favor, don't tell me what I should do or feel. That's the quickest way to stir my ire and get me to stop smiling and nodding and tell you exactly how I feel.
