What do you mean no more paper?

Let me start from the beginning for you to understand the title. I am on the PTA board for Tamarac Elementary. This is my first year on the board, I sit as VP of the PTA.

The PTA runs the fund raisers for the school each year, which helps bring in extra money for the school, or which it intends to do. It also runs some of the extra curricular activites. One of the activies that our school does is called Sunshine Math. Which pushes kids t olearn more then what they are learning in class, almost one grade level up. My daughter loves it and has been doing it since last year. She came in third for her grade level and recieved a metal for it.

Now things were moving fine this year upto recently. I noticed she hadn’t gotten any papers for a little over two weeks. So I sent a text message to the president of the PTA and asked what had happen. There were 2 answers, 1. The kids are testing for the next 2 weeks, 2. Not enough paper and may have to be stopped till next year.

What? Not enough paper, how could that be? With all the tax changes for each county has made the school change the way they supple and supplement the money. One of the things that has to go will be no more copying of any papers, we are over the limit for the year. Now remember its only Febuary and have 4 more months to go. Now what is going to happen for the next 4 months? No homework packets, no more sheets of paper with class work? How are kids suppose to learn without the proper tools?

Now it might seem like I am making a big fuss over paper. But think about it, if it starts with paper, what will be next? What will they take next? This school has over 1100 students and is projected to be close to 1200 next year. How can we use the same budget with more kids?

I plan on going to Office Depot or Staples to see if they can discount on making copies for the school. I would hate for the kids to stop doing this program. Not just my daughter but the whole school.

Jeannette Neerpat