When my father was in grade school in a working class school district in Pittsburgh, Penn., during the Great Depression, students nor parents paid for so much as piece of paper or pencil. Never mind textbook fees and all the other fees we parents have to pay today.
I, for one, found it embarrassing that last year our school district, that would be Circle, in addition to all of the normal fees, asked each parent to supply a ream of copy paper for each of their children attending the school district. Seems to me this says much about how we as a society are short-changing our children's education and why. America will have difficulty competing in the global economy.
Doug Mould,
Benton
