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Is this policy in Paulding county? (I don't have kids and am new to the area). Do all teachers do this?
I don't know this either. I moved here from the Chicago area.
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Standard answer.
Ok, advise exactly how many of these kids are in the class and we'll pool the money between parents and buy them what they need. If all the kids are instructed to bring extra supplies, then that obviously means that 50% of the kids are so destitute that they their parents can't buy anything. Hogwash!
Cancel the cable TV subscription and buy your kids what they need for school. Fact is, there are actually people who won't spend the money on their children precisley because they know other parents will provide it.
I tend to agree with you here.
Plus, there are many organizations and churches that help poor families with school supplies. I work with Operation Homefront, and we gather up backpacks filled with school supplies for the children of our deployed soldiers.
There are MANY organizations that do this. What is different is that they are upfront about it. I don't like having this forced upon me by teachers and the school. It's very easy to be charitable with other people's money.
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Yeah I complained about this the year before last, and probably last year as well. I always put my sons name on his things but they always get taken away, and sometimes opened and dumped into a bin for the class to share. What bothers me is when they start losing things then my son complains that he doesn't have this or that color anymore and he can only have what the teacher gives. I usually buy extra so I can sneak him some stuff during the school year in his bag to put in his desk.
What was said when you complained?
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Wow...we've not had this argument since LAST August.
Sorry, I'm new around here.
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My guy is starting Jr. High soon, so this will no longer apply to me. But with school starting soon, I was wondering if this bothered anyone else.
Back when I was in elementary school, we had our school supply lists. We went out with our mom and dad, picked out all the new stuff (pencils, crayons, pencil boxes, binder, all that fun stuff). I remember taking the time the night before to make sure your name was on everything, and being all proud of my desk full of cool stuff the next day at school.
Now (with my son anyway) we are told to not put kids names on anything. They are given the list, and you bring everything to school the first day. The teacher takes everyone's supplies and allocates them as he/she sees fit.
Does this bother anyone? I hated that the first thing my son was exposed to on his first day of school was a government worker confiscating his private property so it could be re-distributed as he/she wanted.
If this was an issue of some kids not being able to afford school supplies, then there are other ways to handle this. Don't make a list and expect that it's the teacher's job to force benevolence onto the parents and students. I would gladly send more supplies, or even secretly adopt another child in the class for this purpose as I'm sure many other parents would. Don't take my kid's stuff.
I'm done ranting now.
Teachers, any feedback here? Is this something that the school forces you to do? How do you feel about it? Am I making a mountain out of a molehill?
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The booster clubs pay for the bus rentals so I wouldn't think so.
Booster clubs, plus admission and concession sales help offset these expenses.
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Thanks again for posting this.
I called my son yesterday and told him to go through the Sunday paper before I threw it out.
Between their buy 1 get 1 items and the coupons, I saved $40.
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I'd much rather see the government look for ways to cut (good move here) than to soak us for more taxes.
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Thank all of you for the kind words.
I had to be Mr. Tough Guy for my wife yesterday. It really didn't hit me until I started writing this.
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Oh, this is great news! I love Publix, but hated that they didn't double coupons. This is how I pay my son his allowance. He cuts the coupons. Whatever I save is his allowance, which can add up. It teaches him the value of the dollar, and it's like free allowance to me.
Is this all Publix? I shop at the one in New Hope.
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Hi everyone.
One more time, I wanted to say thank you for the support and advice on this old thread.
Roscoe had a pretty bad seizure sometime Saturday night that took him from us.
He was in his bed on Sunday morning, next to our bed, and looked at peace.
Something felt horribly wrong about burying a 5 month old puppy, but you do what you have to do.
The breeder did agree to give us our money back. It's amazing how attached you get to these little guys after only 3 months.
My wife was having a hard time with this, and kept asking why this happened to her. I told her that, because she is such a good person (and she is, I'm really outpunting my coverage with her), that's the reason Roscoe chose us. He was only going to have a short time here, and with us, he got a warm bed at night, lots of love and attention, and got to be a puppy when he felt well. Taking him back to the breeder or to a rescue group would have meant that he would have died alone in a cold cage.
Sorry for the somber posting.
Here is a picture from a couple weekends ago, when he went boat riding with us.
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So...what do you think will happen?
I suspect that they would enact as many Sharia laws as they could. Sounds crazy, but Muslim cashiers at Target have already been granted to not have to touch infidel's pork products. I'm sure there are many other examples, but I am working and should probably spend time doing research for the people that are paying for this computer
I'm sorry, I just don't buy the "Islam is a religion of peace" line.
Here are some examples of Sharia Law.
Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped.
Islam allows husbands to hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their wives.
Islam allows an injured plaintiff to exact legal revenge—physical eye for physical eye.
Islam commands that a male and female thief must have a hand cut off.
Islam commands that homosexuals must be executed
Islam orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped and adulterers to be stoned to death
Islam orders death for Muslim and possible death for non—Muslim critics of Muhammad and the Quran and even sharia itself
Islam orders apostates to be killed
Islam commands offensive and aggressive and unjust jihad
Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/08/top..._sharia_is.html
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ETA: We now live in a country that is so politically correct that we embrace any and all religions above Christianity so if our government keeps it up, it will just be a matter of time before Christian holidays will no longer be recognized as federal holidays.
Islam scares me. Not because I am ignorant or racist. I have read many books and studied this religion. They have no interest whatsoever in assimilating to the United States. I know this is just a chicken plant in Tennessee. However, I've seen this appeasment movie before and don't like how it ends.
I'm sorry, I know this is "insensitive", but Muslims ARE different. What do you think will happen when they have enough numbers to caucus on issues and make up large voting blocks of this country? Do you think they are going to expand freedom and liberty? (no you in particular LisaC, just ranting out loud)
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Actually, any empty room will do. My firm will allow groups of people that want to have a Bible study meet in a conference room during their lunchbreak if the conference room isn't being used for client meetings. If a group of muslims wanted to get together for a prayer, then they would be subject to the same guidelines.
LisaC, I wonder if your company is the exception and not the norm? I don't know. I have never worked anywhere where prayer groups and bible study would have been acoommodated. They would have told us to take it to a nearby restaurant or meeting place on our lunch.
I just don't see GM installing chapels at their factories if the Christians there wanted one. I get that converting an unused confererence room is not necessarily going to any extreme. I just seems that, when Muslims are concerned, there is a case of "bending over backwards". Just my opinion here.
This plant added rooms and moved a holiday (an American holiday) to accommodate a certain religion, one that some would argue has declared war on this country. I am very interested to see the backlash from this story. Did they think this would go over well in Shelbyville, TN?
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The part that grabbed my attention the quickest was the portion about the prayer rooms and prayer breaks. I have a great boss, but I just don't think he would respond very well to my asking that a room here at the office be sat aside as a chapel, and that we take breaks for bible study twice a day.
Inch by inch.
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Tyson drops Labor Day holiday for Eid al-Fitr
Friday, August 1, 2008
By Brian Mosely
Workers at Tyson Foods' poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.
A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility "implements a new holiday to accommodate the ... Muslim workers at the plant."
The RWDSU stated that "the five-year contract creates an additional paid holiday, Iidal Fitil, a Muslim holiday that occurs toward the end of Ramadan."
Eid al-Fitr falls on Oct. 1 this year.
Tyson's Director of Media Relations, Gary Mickelson, stated that while the new contract does not provide an additional holiday, as the union claimed, "the new contract includes eight paid holidays, which is the same number provided in the old contract."
"However, the union leadership did request and receive Eid al-Fitr (which is apparently spelled various ways including Id al-Fitr and Eid ul-Fitr) as a paid holiday in place of Labor Day," Mickelson confirmed in an e-mail to the T-G.
"Since all Team Members will still have eight paid holidays, the change will not affect production," Mickelson said.
Eid al-Fitr means "Festival of the Breaking of the Fast" in Arabic, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.
The festival "is distinguished by the performance of communal prayer (salat) at daybreak on its first day. It is a time of official receptions and private visits, when friends greet one another, presents are given, new clothes are worn, and the graves of relatives are visited," the encyclopedia said.
Mickelson said that "Eid al-Fitr is one of eight paid holidays for all Team Members covered by the contract, while Labor Day is not a paid holiday."
"Based on the contract, the other paid holidays include: The Team Member's birthday, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day," Mickelson said.
"Implementing this holiday was a challenge, since it falls on a different day every year and is declared on fairly short notice," RWDSU Representative Randy Hadley said in the press release. "But the negotiating committee felt this was extremely crucial, since this holiday is as important to Muslims as Christmas is to Christians."
"The date for this holiday (Eid al-Fitr) is not the same each year," Mickelson said. "however, it is in the early fall."
The press release stated there are approximatly 700 Muslims working at Tyson, but Mickelson said that Somalis only represent approximately 250 of the 1,200 employed at the plant, a little over 20 percent of the workforce.
"All Team Members who have completed their probationary period are eligible for all eight paid holidays including Eid al-Fitr," the Tyson spokeman said.
The union also claimed that in addition to the observance of the Muslim holiday, "two prayer rooms have been created to allow Muslim workers to pray twice a day and return to work without leaving the plant."
Mickelson said that Shelbyville's Tyson plant "does have a prayer room to accommodate the needs of Muslim Team Members."
"In addition to regular, non-paid breaks, all Team Members are allotted a seven-minute paid break," the Tyson spokesman said. "Some Team Members choose to pray during this time."
However, Mickelson took issue with another claim made by RWDSU, which stated that another "improvement" in the contract is time-and-a-half pay for Team Members who work more than an eight hour shift.
"This statement is not accurate," Mickelson said. "This overtime pay provision is not new nor is it unique. In fact, it was included in the previous contract."
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I took my nephew to the game on Friday night. I was absolutely painful to wait out the game just to get to the fireworks.
As much as I love the Braves, I have probably been to my last game this year. I think that, if they "sell" at the trade deadline, than they should discount the tickets the rest of the way. We can go to Rome to see prospects at a third of the price.
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As a proud alumnus of LSU (that's our clock tower in my avatar), I am way too overexcited for this year. I will say, however, that we have taken tailgating to a professional level. If anyone has ever been to Baton Rouge on gameday (especially if it was a conference game and not a "rent a win"), you will probably agree.
I got chills looking over this year's schedule. If we stay in the top 10, and Georgia comes to town ranked #1, the atmosphere down there will be electric. I encourage all Georgia fans to make this trip, it will be well worth it.
Other venues that I have been to that were just spectacular.
1. Georgia
2. Tennessee
3. Alabama (despite my hatred of all things crimson, they know how to set the ambiance on gameday)
4. Notre Dame
Some road trips to sit out
1. Mississippi State
2. Vanderbilt (althought hanging out on honky tonk row with thousands of your team's fans if fan)
3. Northwestern (I was starved for college football when I lived in Chicago, then noticed that there is none there)
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I was thinking mold as well.
My wife has asthma along with allergies, and my boat made her react until we started keeping it in the garage at the new house.
Here is what she did.
1. Told her doctor, who was able to prescribe some meds to control the symptons (she loves tanning now)!
2. After cleaning the boat with bleach and all that stuff, find a stretch of about 3-4 days in the forecast to let the boat sit in the sunniest part of the yard to dry it out. Make sure to open up all the compartments and hulls.
3. After this, if you can keep the boat in the garage it will make a world of difference. If not, don't skimp on the boat cover. During the winter, make sure to uncover it on a sunny day and let it air out.
I'm telling you, this works. I didn't think I would ever be able to enjoy the boat with my wife, but the combo of the 2 has converted her. Now she is the one getting the cooler ready on a nice Saturday.
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The reason there are jobs in this country that Americans will not do is that the ones who are traditionally qualified for them (unskilled labor) are now lounging in the hammock of government entitlements and handouts, with nothing expected from them in return.
We could kill two birds with one stone here. They say we cannot get rid of the illegals because they do the work Americans will not do. Well how bout this? Compile a list of everyone who has been on all of these programs over, say two years; welfare, food stamps and government subsidized housing. Offer them transportation to where these jobs are that the illegals are doing now. Offer them housing assistance for a year and the other handouts for10 months. Compel the employer to pay minimum wage, with 25% of that salary being subsidized by the federal government. There is no reason any one should not be able to get on their feet and move on from there if they so desire, or stay in that profession and move up. If they decline to participate they lose all taxpayer funded entitlements. Americans who find themselves in a position of being required to earn their keep, will by default decrease the number of jobs for illegals, and in theory they should return home on their own accord.
I must admit wcso84 that your proposal here made my head spin. I'm not sure if I love it, or hate it, but I do love that folks like you are thinking about coming up with answers, rather than just hoping that it gets fixed on its own.
WT made some great points about this issue mobilizing folks in this country, and I think this is a good thing. I agree that I feel that something horrible may have to happen to bring this issue back to the forefront, and that will be a tragedy. Let's hope the ends justifies the means.
Some great opinions in this thread, even from those on the other side. Great debate.
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And what about all the illegal aliens that pay sales tax, property tax, and taxes on their cars?
It's not fair to group all illegal aliens into one group, there are many out there that do pay their bills and do pay taxes.
Perhaps a better solution would be to-
A- Help the Mexican economy out to where the government can sustain itself and give less incentive for aliens to cross the border, or
B- Implement an immigration reform bill such as the one President Bush proposed a year or so ago.
To those that are following the law and paying taxes, I say welcome, get in line and become legal.
A - I'm not sure how I feel about helping the Mexican economy. Something does not sit well with me when it comes to subsidizing another free country, although I'm sure we do it already with other countries. I would have to see that this costs us less than what we are already doing to subsidize their poor that they have exported to us.
B - While I was not in love with this proposal, I didn't hate it either. WT's original post was regarding the criminal element, and this bill certainly would address that. I don't like the idea of rewarding law breaking behavior, and this does nothing to vet the folks that don't really have any interest in becoming Americans. I think that argument gets lost in all this. Many of these folks have NO interest in putting up their right hands and swearing their allegiance to this country. I'll give you that I don't have an answer to this problem, as we have many citizens here in this country that are the same way. Just a concern of mine.
Good debate loungeact.
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Perhaps American citizens who desire to be carpenters should have to compete to offer cheaper wages/better workmanship... you know, like the free market is supposed to work.
If American citizens continue to expect to be paid the same amount for a job that can be obtained for cheaper prices, look forward to many, many industries being taken over not only be illegal immigrants, but legal ones as well that are willing to work for much, much less.
You make a great point here. I would not be up in arms if the carpentry industry was being taken over by teenagers just out of school, as they are paying taxes on this money, and most of it is staying in the community.
Been to an emergency room lately (maybe not out here, but go to one in Cobb County)? Do you think these folks are going to the emergency room for the flu are going to pay that bill when it comes in the mail? If they were, they would be going to a private doctor that requires money up front. Who is going to pay that bill? What about the salaries of all the translators in public schools? The extra police to patrol these high crime neighborhoods?
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Well if illegals and or people with their visas have jobs, then I would assume that it would be a job that Americans don't want todo because it is too hard, or they think they are too good to do it or it is too hot to work outside. So noone is taking anyones jobs. It is just jobs that no one else wants to do.
When did carpertry, farming, landscaping, working in textile mills become jobs that Americans "won't do". They became the jobs that Americans "won't do" for the wages that these places get away with paying illegals. While the dollar does not stack up well in Europe, it is still very stong in Latin America.
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Taking American jobs?
Maybe Americans should get up and go find a job, instead of complaining about immigrants "taking them."
It's 110% easier for an American citizen to get a job than someone without a green card or visa.
loungeact, I would challenge you to attempt to get a job building a house at the wage (inflation adjusted) that this exact same job paid 15-20 years ago. Being a carpentar was, at one time, a good paying trade.
We can argue as to where the blame goes, the people that take the jobs or the people that hire. I believe that, if there were not a pool of workers available at dirt cheap wages, the wage would increase due to supply and demand. Which comes first, shrinking the pool, or stopping the source? Why not both?
Teachers redistributing school supplies
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Lady Raider, I admire your compassion and see your point here.
My problem is that this is forced on you, rather than you having the freedom of choice. I agree, if the teacher pulls a few parents aside and asks for some help, I would be more than happy to help. Most parents would. It's the assumption that it is up to the teacher to force the parents and kids to be charitable that drive me nuts. Just ask! That's all I want. I don't think it is a good lesson to teach kids that it's up to someone else to force them to give to others.
I bring my son with me to stuff back packs, and to the bases to give them out. He loves it. Most kids do.