Gothamist: "Tempest In a Toilet Bowl"

jenny

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:48:35 -0500

ok, the TP and soap is a little much but I do remember having to bring in a box of Kleenex at the beginning of the year so we had it for the whole class. I mean, it was suburbia but I can't be the only one, can I?

S.D.

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:58:56 -0500

"Parents across the city were outraged this fall when some annual school supply lists included basic items such as paper towels, facial tissues, soap and even toilet paper." ... ... Wow. That's just sttupid. I don't know if this is the Mayor latest "Cost Saving" Plan, but I'd be P/O'ed too if my kid showed up with Soap and Toilet paper on the list of items to bring to school...

corie

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:38:28 -0500

Perhaps Bloomberg needs to be a student for a day at one of these schools. I can provide him with a list of schools that lack such things as toilet paper (also-- bathroom stall doors, clean facilities, etc), as could any other person working within the NCY public school system.

Dan

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:34:41 -0500

It is simply outrageous that the City administration is even discussing vanity projects like West Side stadiums and Freedom Towers and the Highline, when the state of the public schools is nothing less than scandalous.

joey

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:15:03 -0500

My lady friend is a NYC Teaching Fellow up in the South Bronx, and this is all very true. She had to put TP and paper towels on the students' supplies list, because the school doesn't provide them. If the students don't bring it in, she has to. Give us our asspaper, Bloomberg!