Instead of schools just providing materials for the classrooms, each family has to buy their own kid a dedicated set of supplies. You could pool the supplies and distribute news ones as needed, but if you do this for anything beyond tissues, parents start freaking out because “I bought MY child that SPECIFIC crayon set and it’s not fair that OTHER kids gets to use it because THEIR parents didn’t care enough to get them a special set.”
Buying school supplies is something I haven't thought about for so long that it never occurred to me that it's unusual or that there's a better way to distribute school supplies.
The only problem with that is if people have other needs. I.e. in terms of different paper or texture feelings etc. However this, too, is easier when you know the standard and can see if that fits you.
why do elementary schoolers have to pay for lunch in any way shape or form? There should be no lunch accounting or lunch tickets, there should just be food that the children are given.
Note from editor: This is too on the nose and not believable for our target audience, we are aiming at young adults, not pre schoolers, who would believe that dystopian societies would limit the buying and exchanging/sharing of ice cream. This only works if you mention that the evil regime is socialist.
shout out to the people that bought me food occasionally and let me have their leftovers in school. that made being poor as shit in a school for rich-ish people more bearable.
Reminds me of a (lib?) I was chatting with years ago who said he's against racism but that he doesn't see anything wrong with our border policies and that people shouldn't be breaking the law by crossing the border illegally and had no idea what the people agreeing with him were about until they started saying the bullying and arrests of the kids of immigrants is the fault of their parents and he had a huge shock that these were the people he'd been agreeing with and who'd agreed with him this whole time (no I can't break this sentence up and make it shorter).
I think lots of people see communism as childish because they instinctively did the things they associate with communism as children, and were broken o that habit as they aged.
You would become known as the reason behind the school's decades long irrational ban on ice cream. Your name will be sung of in song and poem for generations.
This is like running an ice cream stand. Access to ice cream for entrepreneurs that maintain a positive account balance for no less than three years in a disadvantaged school district.
this isn't new.. i was denied school lunches more than once because we didn't have money. that i understood as a kid, no money no food. but when there was 'snack time' everyday and sometimes my friends would get in trouble for sharing with me when they felt pity. that i never understood, and it just felt so mean.
My favorite is when they’re like, “We would never deny a child a lunch just because they don’t have money! We gave them two slices of bread with a slice of cheese in the middle!”
That's just fucked. I don't understand how adults could treat children that way. "No money? Well, as a child, that's obviously your fault, so get fucked and go hungry."
Plot twist: they are accelerationists drilling class consciousness into the proletariat to insure they rise up and organize. Start the class war early. Seriously anyone live in that area? Organize those kids! Nobody gets ice cream until everyone gets ice cream
This is why the US has police in the school to easily be able to enforce violence and stop those things. Where I am from there is no police in school and if you get them it is a big deal. This means that collective action of students has to be dealt with differently in plenty cases.
lol the clarification is literally "what we said lacked empathy and sensitivity for the poor kids who, make no mistake, are still under no circumstances going to be allowed ice cream"
It's important that children start learning that when we teach them that sharing is an unqualified good in preschool, that's not the whole story. Just as when they get a bit older and learn that it isn't exactly true that you can't subtract a number from zero, they have to learn the subtleties and complexities of the world in which they live in all it's glory. Sharing is good only insofar as it doesn't distort The Market or reward people who should be punished for their economic sins (or those of their family). It is fine and admirable to share with those who already have all they need, but bad and harmful to share with those who don't have enough, as doing so would make them complacent and keep them from working hard to better their circumstances. If your friend is poor, they do not deserve ice cream until they earn it for themselves.