• @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    41 year ago

    The parents do. We have to purchase school supplies and get nickeled and dimed for PTO stuff and field trips plus the school lunches.

    Imagine if we expected soldiers to buy their rifle, pay for their meals, pay for their uniforms, imagine the outcry about troop readiness. Why do we tolerate it with education?

    • @atrielienz@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      Crazily enough we do to some extent. They issue you a bunch of stuff in boot camp. It comes out of your pay.