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sinkingfeeling

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3. Wow. When my son was enrolled in public high school in Tucson, back in the late 1980s, the system was

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Jan 4, 2025, 11:21 AM

Jan 4

so poor, I had to buy his textbooks. Now they have the money to pay each kid $7K not to attend a public school.

I did take him out of public high school and he spent his last year there at a very expensive private school, which I paid for without state assistance.

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Wow. When my son was enrolled in public high school in Tucson, back in the late 1980s, the system was sinkingfeeling Jan 4 #3

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