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School Activity Fees : Readers have a bone to pick
The activities fee is a bunch of crap! Every club and sport and band that my kids’ belong to has some cost associated with it. It is donations or fundraising for the club ~ so what are they using the activities fee money for? I’m sure Angelo is swirling that money somewhere to make himself look good! I think ‘7 on your side’ on eyewitness news would love to get a hold of this story ~ then you will see whose diploma is withheld or whose grades aren’t sent out!!
The activity fee is an outrage to begin with but think about this:
If you child enrolls in classes such as cooking/art/chemistry etc. there are lab and/or supply fees to the tune of about $20 per class. I can’t see how these mandatory fees are legal but we pay them each year. Also, when a student takes a class at RHS and they are issued a textbook with corresponding workbook the student is not permitted to write in the workbook unless the parent pays for the book. The workbook issue defeats the purpose of the workbook concept and is especially difficult and counterproductive for struggling students.
These fees all add up and perhaps should be added to the reported cost per student in Ridgewood.
another way they raise money . . . charge the kids for damage to book textbooks that were already damaged. Despite the fact that the damage was noted and recorded the day the book was issued to the kid, they are charged for it at the end of the school year. How many kids get charged for the same damaged book year after year.
