Quote:A lot of parents don't really care, but I don't think it's the 'let's be friends' attitude.  It's the "Who needs this stuff?" attitude.  It's the attitude of parents and non parents who say things like "I don't want to give those kids hand outs.  It'll teach them to be dependent on the government!" 


A lot of teachers have to buy their own supplies.  They're given a very small allotment, and then most of them go out of the way and spend their own money.  


Maybe it's because I've known a lot of great teachers that I feel this way.  But I feel that Education is woefully underfunded. I already hear some of the rebuttals "You want to raise taxes?"  How about no.  How about we cut funding in other places, and move it toward Education, because education can help reduce violent crime.  And to steal from Jon Stewart, some of these kids are going to wind up in the army some day, and they're going to be using all this high tech equipment we spend money on.  And that can be pretty complicated.