Explain this to me.

[Nevilledog]

[Leith]

1. Wouldn't it be nice if

the military had to hold a bake sale to pay for a new bomber or tank?

[niyad]

5. I used to wear my t-shirt "it will be a great day when schools have all the money they need,

and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber" every time the recruiters were around. They asked me to stop. I told them NO.

[LakeArenal]

2. Teachers buying their own supplies. Because...

Feudal lords don’t like an educated public.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Dint, ding.

[onecaliberal]

4. Because they're 95% state funded.

The vast majority are grossly underfunded.

It’s a matter of priorities. America’s priorities are lining the pockets of the already insanely wealthy.

[Grokenstein]

9. And don't forget the military-industrial complex!

Gotta build big bang-bangs-go-boom! Even if the personnel to make them go boom are busy dying of the 'rona.

[Nevilledog]

7. My husband bought pencils and notebooks when he taught 8th grade math.

[wnylib]

10. Same time period, we paid

for book covers, notebooks, pens and pencils, gym uniforms, too, but also paid for lunch, sports events, and uniforms. Tank suits for the pool were free, but girls bought our own caps for the pool.

School dances and skating parties were free. Clothing was the same.

[burrowowl]

15. Same time period

We got book covers from Borden's Dairy and were shown how to put then on.

[wnylib]

17. We were offered some that we could

buy cheap from the school, but we also bought other ones that were nicer looking if we could do it since they cost more.

[Ilsa]

13. Now every student needs a laptop and

high speed internet access.Tablets or smartphones are also used in class.

Tshirts are usually fine unless they have satanic or obscene or racist pictures or language.

[lambchopp59]

8. Bah, humbug. Are there no workhouses??? Are there no prisons???

[MyOwnPeace]

11. Another poster..........

When I was a Principal at the turn of this century I had visited Harvard/Cambridge and bought a poster that I placed on my door:

AFTER WE REBUILD IRAQ - CAN WE REBUILD OUR SCHOOLS?





(Unfortunately, every bit as effective as the poster in the OP. )

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. Short-sighted Republicans.

If you look at the history of economic power, it's good education and other infrastructure that makes it happen.

There was a time when the USA had the best schools in the world too, with the highest literacy rates and such.

[BigmanPigman]

14. And why some teacher have to take two jobs?

Teachers have received little respect in this country. I am sick of being seen as glorified babysitters and a convenience for working parents! I did the math, so did my fellow teachers...we would make more, a lot more, money as an hourly babysitter for each student than as a teacher of 30 kids all day long.

[Warpy]

16. Easy, the plutocrats and the Republican hired help need ignorant people

to keep them in power, people who went to defunded schools dedicated to producing obedient and patriotic workers, not actually delivering an education. This is not the fault of teachers, who delight in students who are curious enough to go beyond the basics and read something besides the watered down textbook. The fault is systemic, created by a system of chronic underfunding of education and low pay for teachers.

It's just one more indication we are a failed state.

[Cha]

18. And, pencils & notebooks!