https://www.wlwt.com/article/ice-cream-friday-post-donovan-elementary-lebanon-ohio/45262394#

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Students are only allowed to purchase 1 ice cream and are not permitted to buy an ice cream for a friend.

    Absolutely deranged. The hyper-individualism is just beaten into you over there huh joker-amerikkklap

    • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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      9 months ago

      I hope there is some totally chad student:

      chad-stalin I purchased one ice cream and gave it to him.

      porky-scared-flipped You aren't allowed to give your ice cream to a friend!

      chad-stalin He's not my friend.

      • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        Buying school supplies is something I haven't thought about for so long that it never occurred to me that it's unusual or that there's a better way to distribute school supplies.

        • Wheaties [comrade/them]
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          9 months ago

          What's even more nuts is that this goes for teachers, too. It's skilled labor, requiring years of college, in demand practically everywhere; yet the pay is shit and part of it has to go to stocking your classroom.

          Meanwhile, the school board members just voted themselves each a new, fully-paid SUV.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            9 months ago

            Meanwhile, the school board members just voted themselves each a new, fully-paid SUV.

            Sometimes, the school board just assigns themselves new "recreation centers" on school property that are for themselves only with administrative bowling alleys and the like and just about no one else even gets a chance to look in those very important allocations of scarce resources.

            • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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              9 months ago

              What the fuck? That’s a new one I haven’t heard before. Where I grew up even if the admins skimmed every last cent they could there wasn’t anywhere near enough money going around to build a bowling alley regardless of who was allowed to use it.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                9 months ago

                My district fucking sucks and the college I went to had the same problem: telling students that they will have to pay more and get less but then building "administrative centers" on campus that no one goes to but the PMC fucks and it's basically just a place for them to fuck off and look down on everyone else.

                I've told this story before but I'll tell it here again and now: one of the most Jokerfying moments I've ever had as a teacher was when my district's newsletter said that there was a budget shortfall and that we all had to tighten our belts and sacrifice and so on... and on the next page there was this big announcement of the poshest high school in the district getting a new stadium... for the same amount as the shortfall. joker-amerikkklap

      • JuneFall [none/use name]
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        9 months ago

        The only problem with that is if people have other needs. I.e. in terms of different paper or texture feelings etc. However this, too, is easier when you know the standard and can see if that fits you.

  • autismdragon [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    Preventing kid's natural inclination to be kind to their friends by making a rule against being kind to your friends. Sick.

  • pillow
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    7 months ago

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    • llama@midwest.social
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      9 months ago

      Because SNAP lobbies the districts to buy their lunch accounting systems instead of schools just doing their own lunch tickets.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        9 months ago

        why do elementary schoolers have to pay for lunch in any way shape or form? There should be no lunch accounting or lunch tickets, there should just be food that the children are given.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    9 months ago

    Students are only allowed to purchase 1 ice cream and are not permitted to buy an ice cream for a friend.

    Fuckin depraved ghouls

    • Homestar440 [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      you best start believin' in dystopian YA novels.....YER IN ONE

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      Note from editor: This is too on the nose and not believable for our target audience, we are aiming at young adults, not pre schoolers, who would believe that dystopian societies would limit the buying and exchanging/sharing of ice cream. This only works if you mention that the evil regime is socialist.

  • Lerios [hy/hym]
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    9 months ago

    not permitted to buy an ice cream for a friend

    shout out to the people that bought me food occasionally and let me have their leftovers in school. that made being poor as shit in a school for rich-ish people more bearable. rat-salute-2

  • D61 [any]
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    9 months ago

    biblically-accurate-kitty Hey, Id like to buy an ice cream...

    hands over dollar

    maybe-later-kiddo Sorry, kiddo, but you can't buy an ice cream until you've paid off your lunch debt.

    kitty-birthday-sad

    • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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      9 months ago

      Thank you for helping us have a great first ice cream Friday, I hope this poor-shaming went smoothly for you
      *keeps dollar*

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      Reminds me of a (lib?) I was chatting with years ago who said he's against racism but that he doesn't see anything wrong with our border policies and that people shouldn't be breaking the law by crossing the border illegally and had no idea what the people agreeing with him were about until they started saying the bullying and arrests of the kids of immigrants is the fault of their parents and he had a huge shock that these were the people he'd been agreeing with and who'd agreed with him this whole time (no I can't break this sentence up and make it shorter).

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Sounds like a Diet Racism enjoyer.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdyin6uipy4

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Yes. No other explanation for why a kid can’t pay cash for a cone if they have a deficit on their account.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      9 months ago

      I think lots of people see communism as childish because they instinctively did the things they associate with communism as children, and were broken o that habit as they aged.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    9 months ago

    If I was a parent I'd probably just buy a bunch of ice creams, walk in, and start handing them out to all the kids who didn't get one.

    Absolute face move, would get a mega crowd pop.

    "Greetings children, it is I, father of Kim-Jong (my child's name). If you do not have an ice cream, you may now have one."

    No teacher is powerful enough to stop children from taking the ice cream. There would be riots. I would become a martyr.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      You would become known as the reason behind the school's decades long irrational ban on ice cream. Your name will be sung of in song and poem for generations.

  • Homestar440 [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    blind self interest is human nature, which is why they have to make explicit rules against doing anything else

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    This is like top-cop running an ice cream stand. Access to ice cream for entrepreneurs that maintain a positive account balance for no less than three years in a disadvantaged school district.