Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While not unduly expensive, it's indicative of a mindset that distracts itself in all these wasteful ways, without making acceptable progress on lots of huge problem areas.

Then show evidence of how it adds up

If you have 20 things for 2K each, then it adds up to 40K.

What on earth is this? I don't think my grad got anything like that, nor would she have wanted it. In addition to being a waste of money, it seems like landfill waste, plus the resources used in the production and shipping of this stuff.

Someday, in the post-apocolyptic world, people will come up a beach filled entirely with stupid participation trophies and commemerative coins and stuff like that, and wonder why people thought it was a good idea to waste natural resources on stuff like that.

Anonymous wrote:While not unduly expensive, it's indicative of a mindset that distracts itself in all these wasteful ways, without making acceptable progress on lots of huge problem areas.

Then show evidence of how it adds up

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate the takedown on Taylor, but I'm not losing sleep over MCPS wasting $2000 on tchotchkes for graduation. There are far bigger wastes of dollars in the system that I'm worried about.

$2K adds up and can go to new instruments, textbooks and supplies, school repairs, extra staff...

Or, how about buying teachers Klenex and wipes...

Or teachers' favorites, a few thousand throwaway handouts to replace the once kids threw away yesterday.