Haha yeah they don't need state funding we just need to monetize every aspect of their existence. Sell! Sell! Sell! Think of the advetising potential! Education could be for profit really. Think of the investment opportunities! Education just needs shareholders!
As a European, reading "parent pick-up line" is so weird.
Or even simpler: they could sell the kids. They have plenty of them anyway.
School pickup line in Alabama
For real, is they had one of those guys they have at football games walking up and down the line of cars with a tray of snacks, they would make a killing.
In the morning I think people are too much in a rush, but it's always congested so maybe.
Reminds me there's a local ice cream truck that is always outside the TK dismissal gate. They make bank, and if I didn't suspect they had a kid at the school I'd be a little upset. I mean it is predatory, but I'm not about to report a mom and pop ice cream truck, lol.
But yeah, where is the truck for parents? I gotta get all my goodies from the hole in the wall donut place (they have great homemade egg sandwiches, still only $6, up from $4 but still a good deal!)
Parent pick-up line
First of all wild that that's a thing at all. Why not school buses?
But secondly, weird name. It's not like it's parents being picked up, nor is it just parents doing the picking up. Unless the pick-uppers are split into different relationship queues? Is there a sibling pick-up line and a grandparent pick-up line running parallel to the parent pick-up line?
Our PTO has done this, but from a timing perspective it was a logistics nightmare.
Appropriately so, several of the public schools in Portland have their own shaved ice, popsicle, and/or savory snack carts for events. (ie. OG hotdog type push-cart) All proceeds go directly to that school & its students. 🥰
Nobody is bothered about the fund raising part?
Cheap child labour makes it go $$$$
Good idea on the surface, but complicated in practice.
where is the labor/money coming from to sell those coffee? I don't know about you guys buy I rarely see people vote for a raise in taxes for any reason, especially in education.
teachers do not want parents to be there longer than necessary, parents are the number one reason why teachers leave their career behind. More parent to teacher contact, rather than just restricting to just emails, is a terrible idea
This directly leads to schools "not having buses for clubs and exams" btw.
Hey sexy mama, wanna kill all humans? (A parent pick up line)
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