I haven’t bought milk for myself in a year, lol...
Back when my kids were in elementary school, on occasion we would leave early and go have breakfast at school. Nice little bonding thing and the school welcomed it. Kids were $1, I think I was $2. Pretty soon we'd have an entire gang of their friends sitting with us because I'm that cool...
My rule was you want to sit with us, you need to eat your entire breakfast or give me what you don't want. I would leave with a half-dozen milks and/or juices, single-serve cereals, etc. The really SAD part about the "free or reduced" breakfast is that kids would come out of the food line and into the cafeteria proper and push their new, full milks and juices/fruit right into the garbage can and just eat the pancakes, donut or whatever.
This is government waste on an ungodly level repeated millions of times daily and is what you get when everyone qualifies for welfare... People are raised to be "entitled", unappreciative, wasteful scumbags...
(rant over)
My kids were told that if the teacher contradicts what I have taught them over the years (ie: guns, government, history, freedom) I NEED to know about. Never had any issues in their school or they just chose not to tell me...
My son graduates in less than a month so I will care less at this point although will still have to pay taxes. I believe for the greater good, we SHOULD pay to educate our youth (within reason) and train for internships for needed industry. I think an uneducated youth would tend to be less-productive and more prone to commit crime. A lot of this is caused by parental non-involvement with homework and/or single-parent families--schools should not be daycare. BUT, I also do not agree with indoctrination so will continue to be thorny at school committee meetings.
I have a BS in Career & Tech Ed (ie: Industrial Arts) but have no desire to deal with the politics of applying for a job in a public school. Just for them to consider an app you have to go through this online, touchy-feely pre-"test" about various teaching scenarios and "what would you do". At 100Qs I got through about 20 and said "fornicate this"... The pay is not high enough for me to be a glorified baby-sitter with parents either not giving one shit or all up in YOUR shit because of something you said to little Johnny that they disagreed with.