Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Local groups collecting food, supplies for back-to-school drive

From Aug. 18 to 31, the Our Place Drop-In Center in Bellows Falls and the Springfield Family Center will be participating in the Back to School Food and Supplies Drive ahead of the new school year.

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4 comments :

  1. We are paying almost 24,000 per kid and that doesn't include a pencil?

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  2. chuck gregory8/20/17, 4:04 PM

    Yup, we can't dump enough on our schools! As Will Rogers put it, "Schools today aren't as good as they used to be-- and they never were." I suppose when we don't have a puppy to kick or a woman to slap around, we can at least be satisfied with having a public school system. And then, when we're really grouchy, we'll insist all our taxpayer dollars go to some neoliberal group like Democrats for Educational Reform or Teach for America, whose primary focus is responsibility to the investors. Sure, they'll provide pencils for the kids, at the same rate their defense contractor colleagues charge us for the gas the military uses in Afghanistan-- $14 a gallon. I imagine the pencils will cost about $2 apiece.

    Peasants are people who let other people push their kids into the race to the bottom. Are
    Springdfielders peasants?

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  3. you have a typo chuck, you lost your focus.

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    1. chuck gregory8/22/17, 11:08 AM

      I always lose my focus when I'm drunk.

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