But that $500 for high school students isn't lunch supervision: it's instructional materials, music fees, and other things that get defined as 'incidentals' but are not incidental at all.
I strongly, *strongly* disagree with the notion that anyone should be paying for bussing of their kids to school. Maybe in an urban environment there can be some realistic expectations in terms of parental expectations, but at my high school, kids were coming from as far as 40 km away. How on earth are they going to get to school otherwise? A particular job is not a basic right; an elementary education is a right.
The same with lunch supervision. The people who can afford lunch supervision are people who can afford to have one parent staying at home, or who have a caregiver. But if you have two working parents, there is simply no way that most people can make arrangements. Again, with rural areas: exactly whose parents are going to be doing this? How are the kids going to get to this mythical friend's-parents'-house? I don't expect teachers to do it, but a minimal level of lunchtime supervision needs to be publicly funded.
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I strongly, *strongly* disagree with the notion that anyone should be paying for bussing of their kids to school. Maybe in an urban environment there can be some realistic expectations in terms of parental expectations, but at my high school, kids were coming from as far as 40 km away. How on earth are they going to get to school otherwise? A particular job is not a basic right; an elementary education is a right.
The same with lunch supervision. The people who can afford lunch supervision are people who can afford to have one parent staying at home, or who have a caregiver. But if you have two working parents, there is simply no way that most people can make arrangements. Again, with rural areas: exactly whose parents are going to be doing this? How are the kids going to get to this mythical friend's-parents'-house? I don't expect teachers to do it, but a minimal level of lunchtime supervision needs to be publicly funded.