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naturegirl321
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 Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject: Donations for US schools |
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I saw this on the news
www.donorschoose.org
YOu can help public school teachers buy supplies |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Why should we?! |
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naturegirl321
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Just an idea for Christmas. |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 1:01 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, but my feeling is that the US has its budgetary priorities stupendously wrong - it can spend billions to prosecute a war on very iffy grounds, while schoolteachers have to request donations via internet just to carry out educational projects??!!
My contribtution towards tissue paper or other supplies, while it might make one classroom's new year a bit brighter, also would contribute to vastly skewed values...
I personally prefer to contribute to causes where alternative funding is not so readily available. |
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naturegirl321
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| I personally would rather contribute for teaching supplies than a war. |
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spiral78
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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My point is that the US has the funds to support their own schools (lavishly) if they choose to do so.
Speaking as a teacher who worked in an inner-city (poor) school in the South of the US for two years.
There are more worthy charities out there. |
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denise
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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This thread reminds me of that bumper sticker:
It will be a great day when schools get all the money that they need from the government and the army has to hold a bake sale to buy bombs.
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Vanica
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| denise wrote: |
This thread reminds me of that bumper sticker:
It will be a great day when schools get all the money that they need from the government and the army has to hold a bake sale to buy bombs.
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Thanks!! I'm sending this to a schoolteacher I know in North Carolina. |
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