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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 00:08:28 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   @WillRobinson Wut. Absolutely not fair. Outrageous.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:12:37 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @hypolite A little more than just pencils, but only what goes in the pencil case.
   • hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:12:37 UTC hypolite

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     @clacke Interesting, my parents had to also buy the paper I was writing or drawing on and the organizers to fit it in by subject. I can understand how foreign my current situation sounds to you, then, when it actually feels like an improvement to me.
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   • hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:12:38 UTC hypolite

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     @clacke No notebooks, organizers, markers, art paper, scissors, compass, protractor?
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:12:39 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @hypolite We bought pencils and erasers. I'm assuming that's not what people are crowdfunding for.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:12:40 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @hypolite @WillRobinson I'm not opposed to centralized purchasing, that's a great idea. Great for cost efficiency and price negotiation leverage. And all else being equal, encouraging people who can afford it to fund those who can't is great.

     What I'm saying is: How about the state does the crowdfunding according to income.

     Where I grew up we just went to school, my parents weren't invoiced a thing. There were books and there was lunch.

   • hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:12:40 UTC hypolite

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     @clacke Did they have to purchase school supplies themselves or were the schools supplying everything as well?
   • hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:12:41 UTC hypolite

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     @clacke @WillRobinson I disagree, this policy would be efficient even if families were purchasing their supplies themselves, which is what I've always known in France.
   • hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:12:42 UTC hypolite

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     @clacke @WillRobinson My school organizes a crowdfunding campaign every year where parents are suggested a donation for supplies for one kid, and encouraged to give more for families having difficulty affording it.

     It ends up being cheaper for everybody because they can order wholesale, and the cost is spread on more people.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:12:42 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @hypolite @WillRobinson This is one of those wholesome things (all else equal) that shouldn't have to be a thing.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 02:13:05 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @hypolite Only what goes in the pencil case.