{"id":309368,"date":"2010-02-11T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877918b55970c"},"modified":"2010-02-11T17:12:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:12:33","slug":"are-you-tired-of-getting-stuck-with-the-bill-for-school-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309368","title":{"rendered":"Are you tired of getting stuck with the bill for school supplies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/steve-lopez\/\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lopez\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01287676c153970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01287676c153970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 132px; height: 129px;\" title=\"Lopez\"><\/img><\/a>A friend of mine, Mika Mingasson, bought a ream of paper recently for her daughter&#8217;s Melrose Avenue Elementary School class because the school had run out. She said another parent bought five reams.<\/p>\n<p>I guess there&#8217;s an upside here, with supply shortages serving as a lesson in conservation. But Mika&#8217;s tale reminded me how utterly commonplace it has become for parents and teachers to reach into their pockets because of budget cuts followed by more budget cuts.\n<\/p>\n<p>The annual bake sale is now a weekly operation. Class sizes are growing, faculties shrinking. At our daughter&#8217;s school, my wife is involved in constant fundraising efforts to pay for everything from supplies to staff positions.\n<\/p>\n<p>By giving so much, are we letting legislators and school district officials off the hook for funding shortages and management lapses?\n<\/p>\n<p>Tell me what you think. And if you&#8217;re a teacher or parent, tell me about your out-of-pocket expenses.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are enough stories out there that, together, we could fill a book.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll donate the paper.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steve Lopez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine, Mika Mingasson, bought a ream of paper recently for her daughter&#8217;s Melrose Avenue Elementary School class because the school had run out. She said another parent bought five reams. I guess there&#8217;s an upside here, with supply shortages serving as a lesson in conservation. But Mika&#8217;s tale reminded me how utterly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}