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Don’t worry, I knew you weren’t a true believer in Fox News.
I just think teachers get a shitty deal for being responsible for the worlds future. I wrote what I did in the hope that someone, somewhere might finally realise that they don’t have short hours and long breaks away from work.
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At least nobody you’d likely want to associate with.
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WFC wouldn’t be accused of false advertising if they (as you) left out the apostrophe in the packaging.
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This is precisely why I do not get why it is that textbooks have soared in price.
That’s pretty true, although I think cult is a bit strong. But, I was one of the minority of liberal Democrats who went there. Perhaps that inoculated me a bit. I am much less invested in being an Aggie these days.
My father never wore his Texas A & M ring. He might not even have had one.
I keep my HS yearbooks so I can look up the people who make the newspapers. Look, see, I knew him before he was a serial killer! See how my buddy wrote “most likely to become a serial killer” under his picture?
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Make it a senior student committee project (ideally for students with an interest in journalism and/or graphic design and/or other relevant areas). Teacher oversight on the final product. Send it to the printer. Job done. It’s still not no effort for the teachers, but it doesn’t have to be their burden alone.
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Surviving the Corps of Cadets is an accomplishment. And it does become a way to recognize your peers if you go on to serve in the military.
I still have my saber as well.
i teach at one of two 4/5/6 intermediate schools in town, about 700 students. we sell about 150-200 full-color yearbooks every year. i buy one every year myself. we do not get them from jostens.
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I’ve gotten the impression that college class rings were a much bigger thing in the first half of the last century. Other than places like A&M, it seems that high school rings are the last vestige of that.
o_0 who calls it charity? It is fun raising. They even use the words - fund raising. Just like a bake sale or a car wash or any other sort of thing.
Except many schools ban bake sales and car washes, and only allow corporate sponsored fund raising. It was even happeneing in my high school, and it doesn’t seem to have stopped even when I moved to a different part of the country.
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Small printer here 30+ years in the trade. For a long time it was expensive because the runs are so short. I remember the days of getting photos all pasted up by the school and shooting negs and halftones and then plates and then you’d have to do a lot of very short runs for the inside, collate, and bind the book and in the end there really was little profit.
Nowadays, I can print a colour yearbook on my digital press and it comes out all saddlestitched (with a heavier cover pre-printed, scored and fed in) but if you want case binding it is still expensive. The only bindery that does hardcover binding around here their special price for schoolbooks was around $30 (about a third of the regular price).
If the book is printed digitally and in colour, usually it is gloss text and in a block rather than folded signatures and needs to be drilled and sewn otherwise it would fall apart.
I should add that schools are better off going to a special yearbook supplier (someone like Friesens’s) but to address
some of the complaints this school had - and those guys were jerks ,obviously trying to squeeze as much money out, but in printing it is customary to be within 10% over and under in quantity and charge accordingly (usually that is stated in the quotations)
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Just out of curiosity, does your outfit do yearbooks - if not why not? It would seem to be a good opportunity.
My wife had photo book done a few years ago for her parents’ 40th anniversary (using the company’s supplied templates)
and when I showed it to my brother (also a printer) and told him how much it cost - we both thought that someone does a hell of a lot of work for very little money.
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Back when I was working for DoD, it was a known thing that graduates of the service academies – West Point, Navy, Air Force – pretty universally wore their humongous class rings so they could tap them vigorously on the table when they needed to demand some respect for their authority. Multi-branch meetings sometimes sounded like a high school band percussion section warming up. MIT grads (my safety school) were known for doing the same thing in DARPA meetings.
My high school yearbook – West Chester High School, Class of 1963 – was done by William T. Cooke Publishing of Philadelphia. I find they’re still in business, still doing yearbooks. I used a scanned copy of it as the skeleton of the web site I built for our 50th reunion.
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All you need is one person who knows how to set up a decent LaTex document and the skills to teach kids the basics. Which should be a useful skill for them too if they move on to any kind of job where they have to submit nice looking documents.
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Why would they ban non corporate fund raising?
Liability is the claim I have heard, but I don’t have first hand knowledge of the why so much as groups being told they can’t.
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That makes even less sense to me. If it’s done on school time and/or property wouldn’t it still be the school’s responsibility regardless of the sponsorship of a third party? Sounds more like corporations trying to get footholds in schools and telling schools they’ll take their money away unless fundraising is done through them. Though I could be missing something fundamental, being not American and all.
