Reply #13: Thats exactly what our district does. [View All]

[Nevernose]

There's a small fee for art and food electives ($20) I believe and another ($100 or so) for football. There are checks in place for students who can't afford it. The problen at my school - urban, at risk - is that it all adds up and can take away quite a bit of money from other programs. Meanwhile, kids in more affluent neighborhoods who could afford to pay much more pay at least the same as our kids, leaving the rest of their schools' budgets intact. Although it always seems odd to me that, even though the schools are allegedly funded to the same amount per pupil, the schools in nicer neighborhoods are always cleaner, have working facilities, more textbooks, three computer labs and three mobile laptop labs, more textbooks, lower teacher/student ratio...and no one in authority can explain why.