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Students are only allowed to purchase 1 ice cream and are not permitted to buy an ice cream for a friend.
Absolutely deranged. The hyper-individualism is just beaten into you over there huh 
I hope there is some totally chad student:
I purchased one ice cream and gave it to him.
You aren't allowed to give your ice cream to a friend!
He's not my friend.
You aren't allowed to give your ice cream to a friend!
Fuck you.
No sharing, only selfishness! 
Yes 
Instead of schools just providing materials for the classrooms, each family has to buy their own kid a dedicated set of supplies. You could pool the supplies and distribute news ones as needed, but if you do this for anything beyond tissues, parents start freaking out because “I bought MY child that SPECIFIC crayon set and it’s not fair that OTHER kids gets to use it because THEIR parents didn’t care enough to get them a special set.”
Buying school supplies is something I haven't thought about for so long that it never occurred to me that it's unusual or that there's a better way to distribute school supplies.
What's even more nuts is that this goes for teachers, too. It's skilled labor, requiring years of college, in demand practically everywhere; yet the pay is shit and part of it has to go to stocking your classroom.
Meanwhile, the school board members just voted themselves each a new, fully-paid SUV.
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Honestly, I don’t know how common or uncommon it is elsewhere. It’s just something that’s never made sense to me and the explanation is always a circular, “we don’t have the funding.” Okay, so rebudget. Get more funding. Tell us who’s gatekeeping giving pencils to schoolchildren so we can get give them a fucking swirly. That’s not an answer on it own.
I would have done myself a lot less psychological damage during childhood if I’d understood earlier that, in cases like these, my autism is actually correct. It’s not that I have some deficit in understanding why these things are happening. It’s baseless convention and ritual all the way down.
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Preventing kid's natural inclination to be kind to their friends by making a rule against being kind to your friends. Sick.
In bad country children are indoctrinated to not care about others
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why do elementary school students even have an account balance
to hurt them, of course
Because SNAP lobbies the districts to buy their lunch accounting systems instead of schools just doing their own lunch tickets.
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Students are only allowed to purchase 1 ice cream and are not permitted to buy an ice cream for a friend.
Fuckin depraved ghouls
What if a stranger buys them an ice cream, therefore, not a friend.
maybe don't have a stranger on school grounds handing out candy to kids that souns like a bigger issue
This would be a good opening paragraph in a dystopian YA novel.
you best start believin' in dystopian YA novels.....YER IN ONE
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"We legally can't keep out every poor kid, so we need to make sure to hurt any that get through"
not permitted to buy an ice cream for a friend
shout out to the people that bought me food occasionally and let me have their leftovers in school. that made being poor as shit in a school for rich-ish people more bearable. 
Hey, Id like to buy an ice cream...
hands over dollar
Sorry, kiddo, but you can't buy an ice cream until you've paid off your lunch debt.
Thank you for helping us have a great first ice cream Friday, I hope this poor-shaming went smoothly for you
*keeps dollar*
so this is specifically designed to make kids whose parents don't put money on their account feel bad, right?
Reminds me of a (lib?) I was chatting with years ago who said he's against racism but that he doesn't see anything wrong with our border policies and that people shouldn't be breaking the law by crossing the border illegally and had no idea what the people agreeing with him were about until they started saying the bullying and arrests of the kids of immigrants is the fault of their parents and he had a huge shock that these were the people he'd been agreeing with and who'd agreed with him this whole time (no I can't break this sentence up and make it shorter).
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This is how we know the kids are cool. They’re such ardent socialists that the IMF is writing the terms of their ice cream purchases.
I think lots of people see communism as childish because they instinctively did the things they associate with communism as children, and were broken o that habit as they aged.
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If the Democratic Party had an ice cream sale
we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
If I was a parent I'd probably just buy a bunch of ice creams, walk in, and start handing them out to all the kids who didn't get one.
Absolute face move, would get a mega crowd pop.
"Greetings children, it is I, father of Kim-Jong (my child's name). If you do not have an ice cream, you may now have one."
No teacher is powerful enough to stop children from taking the ice cream. There would be riots. I would become a martyr.
You would become known as the reason behind the school's decades long irrational ban on ice cream. Your name will be sung of in song and poem for generations.
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blind self interest is human nature, which is why they have to make explicit rules against doing anything else
This is like 
running an ice cream stand. Access to ice cream for entrepreneurs that maintain a positive account balance for no less than three years in a disadvantaged school district.
Donovan City Schools: Building Community
this isn't new.. i was denied school lunches more than once because we didn't have money. that i understood as a kid, no money no food. but when there was 'snack time' everyday and sometimes my friends would get in trouble for sharing with me when they felt pity. that i never understood, and it just felt so mean.
My favorite is when they’re like, “We would never deny a child a lunch just because they don’t have money! We gave them two slices of bread with a slice of cheese in the middle!”
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The "clarification" on the post doesn't make it any better, either.
lol the clarification is literally "what we said lacked empathy and sensitivity for the poor kids who, make no mistake, are still under no circumstances going to be allowed ice cream"
it is literally a clarification
"some have wondered if our policies are deliberately cruel to poor children the answer is yes we realise how cruel this is and are going to do it"
Plot twist: they are accelerationists drilling class consciousness into the proletariat to insure they rise up and organize. Start the class war early. Seriously anyone live in that area? Organize those kids! Nobody gets ice cream until everyone gets ice cream
I would picket with them
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If these elementary schoolers wanted ice cream, they should've worked harder 
yet another victory of the free market
Humanity hangs on a cross.
What a hurt species we must be to do this to one another. To innocent children.
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