<p>What are parking stickers?</p>
<p>probably just stickers to put on their cars so they’re able to park in the school parking lot</p>
<p>^ exactly .</p>
<p>Ah. Of course.</p>
<p>ehm.</p>
<p>gosh… our id cards are free. i mean if we lose them we have to pay for a new one but as long as we know our id number we’re usually ok. we don’t pay for sports, clubs, or classes either. altho there is a public high school i know of that charges for being in the IB program. our district pays the fees for us except the testing i think. i guess schools are losing the meaning of the word public…</p>
<p>For us ID cards are for free unless you lose it. Then you have to buy a new one.
I think it’s ridiculous that kids are being charged for ID cards.</p>
<p>Our first one is free and then $5 to replace everytime you lose it.</p>
<p>Wow. I never knew something like this was going on. The free PUBLIC education I get has always been one of my favorite things about living in America.
To hear that several schools are charging for classes is…distressing to say the least. In my school IDs/handbooks/etc. are free (with a replacement fee if lost) and so are classes, even the robotics class, which uses thousands of dollars of equipment, and the honors and AP lab science classes. I always took this for granted.
What I find difficult to understand is how the board of education, which would normally be under the control of town citizens and parents, could let this go on. You would think that the board would be forced to adjust the budget or curriculum after enough complaints. (Parental complaints seem to be like currency in most school systems: you give one to someone in order to get what you want.)</p>
<p>How much are year books at your schools? </p>
<p>Mine went up to $50 this year…</p>
<p>My school charges $75 for opening an ID card and yes, it’s just a plastic card with your name, picture and school name. Everyone has to pay in order to obtain this card and we students use this card for many necessary purchases-like at the school bookstore to get stationery and eat at the school cafe…My school is private so I’m not surprised if it charges us for a card (though a little amazed at the amount itself…) However, I don’t think it’s fair to get charged if you go to a public school. You don’t pay for any notable school-year tuition besides maybe sport equipment, books and other little things so why pay for an ID card? I remember my elementary ID card was completely free.</p>
<p>I go to a private school, and it’s free for the first card, $5 for each replacement, although i got kicked out of taking my ID card picture yesterday because my friend was taking it and he moved somethign in front of the camera on purpose and i told him to stop *****ing around and the ASB advisor got mad and said “it’s not a bar.” I have to go and retake it now. Yearbooks are $85 if bought at booksales, $90 if bought within the first month of school, $100 if bought before march, and $110 if bought after yearbooks arrive(like the left-over, extra yearbooks, they order.)</p>
<p>My kids attend private HS & now older S is at a private college. ID cards at the public schools they previously attended were all free (probably would have to pay for replacement); the ones at the private HS were also free, as are the ones at the private U. That said, the tuition at the private schools is pretty high–$13,700 this year & more next year, plus you have to buy your own books from middle school & beyond. The tuition & fees for 1 year at private college is slightly under $34,000/year for 2006-07 + books, room & board, so not sure if you can really say the ID cards are “free” after all. It’s all a matter of perspective.
The public schools in our area do charge fees for yearbook, sports, PE clothes, some lab fees, etc.</p>
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<p>Yo, thats my line. :D</p>
<p>Um, if it’s a public school shouldn’t they offer free classes/IDs?</p>
<p>We don’t pay for IDs. We don’t even use them. People lost them the day after.</p>
<p>Even if you’re borrowing library books and such? Or you have a seperate card for that?</p>
<p>We don’t need our IDs either actually. Every once in a while, they try to revive to ID policy, but it always dies in a week. I’ve always thought it was a bit silly to have to prove I went to that school. Why would I sneak in?
As for library books, I don’t think anyone even bothers taking books out of our pitiful school library…</p>
<p>“Why would I sneak in?”</p>
<p>haha. I actually have a story regarding that…
A friend of mine at another school had a half day and decided to visit some of her friends at yet another school. All was going well until she saw the school’s principal. Apparently he MEMORIZES the names and faces of all of his ~1880 students!! (He’s known for this by teachers and administrators throughout town.) Needless to say, he asked her her name and kicked her right back off campus!</p>
<p>I go to a public school, and it charges 15$/year for an ID card.
Fortunately, the ID card really isn’t good for anything, so I never pay the 15$.</p>
<p>He memorized the names of all 1900 students? Dude. That’s scary.</p>
<p>The public HS I graduated from in the mid 70s finally threw out ALL of its books because it hadn’t bought ANY since I graduated! Fortunately, some kind souls donated $$$ & books to help them have something to put on the otherwise empty shelves. My kids would be attending that HS if they weren’t in private school. <sigh> It WAS one of the best public HSs in the state!</sigh></p>