From Eblen Charities:
Summer is winding down which means thousands of students will again be filing through the hallways of schools all across our community. Refreshed, students and teachers will be excited and anxious to embark on another school year.
Many, however, may find their book bags, back packs and classroom supply closets empty when they reach for pencils and notebooks.
Unfortunately, because of the current economy, school supply budgets in Western North Carolina schools have been cut. The effects of the cuts and lack of proper supplies go far beyond the classroom as the burden not only falls on the students, teachers and schools, but on every parent as well.
As you shop for groceries or school supplies for your own children in the coming days, pick up some extras and take them to participating Ingles locations on Wednesday, August 8th. 
Other locations:
Buncombe County
Ingles on Tunnel Rd (near the tunnel)
85 Tunnel Rd., Asheville 28805
Drop Off Times: 5am-7pm
Henderson County
Ingles on Asheville Highway
1980 Hwy 25 North, Hendersonville 28792
Drop Off Times: 7am-7pm
Rutherford County
Forest City Ingles
756 Church Street, Forest City 28043
Drop Off Times: 7am-7pm
Jackson County
Sylva Ingles
19 Webster Road, Sylva 28778
Drop Off Times: 7am-7pm
The following Ingles locations will have designated ‘Tools for Schools Buggies’ where you can drop of supplies. Look for the ‘Tools for Schools’ signs near the front of the store. We’ll make sure all the supplies get to your local schools!!!
Graham County
Robbinsville Ingles
2 Sweetwater Rd., Robbinsville 28771
Drop Off Times: 6am-6pm
Transylvania County
Brevard Ingles
710 North Broad Street, Brevard 28714
Haywood County
Waynesville Ingles
201 Barber Blvd., Waynesville 28786
Macon County
Franklin Ingles
398 Westgate Road, Franklin 28734
Madison County
Mars Hill Ingles
213 Big Branch Road, Mars Hill 28754
McDowell County
Marion Ingles
309 West Henderson Street, Marion 28752
Mitchell County
Spruce Pine Ingles
125 Greenwood Road, Spruce Pine 28777
Rutherford County
Forest City Ingles
756 Church Street, Forest City 28043
Swain County
Bryson City Ingles
Hughes Branch Road, Bryson City 28713
Yancey County
Burnsville Ingles
400 Highway 19 East, Burnsville 28714
Drop Off Times: 6am-6pm
WLOS-TV
110 Technology Dr., Asheville 28803
(828) 684-1340
Drop Off Times: 8am-5pm
Look at all that stuff that used to be supported by tax dollars!
Ain’t this a great country? We’ve shifted the burden of providing for schools off of the backs of the people who benefited most from them and onto the backs of the very poor people they are supposed to benefit.
That’s progress, folks! And it’s not over! Pretty soon, we’re going to be seeing a complete collapse of the public school system!
Hell, at that point, we don’t need to worry about poor people getting school supplies…because they won’t be going to school at all! That will open up a whole new labor market once those pesky damn child labor laws are gone.
The best part? We’re still going to have a regressive tax system that forces the working class to pay for the school vouchers that let the children of the upper middle class go to the private school system…just the way GOD intended in his infinite wisdom when he created American Jesus to sit on the cross with a high-powered rifle and kill the infidels who put him there.
Amen.
Preach on, Brother Mat! And now for the libertarian, contrarian rebuttal in 3, 2, 1…
Good post Mat!
Most Needed Item:
-boxes of tissues
Indeed.
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Nice to see private charity solving problems. Now if we could just get government out of the education business.
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Separation of Education and State
http://principlesofafreesociety.com/separation-of-education-and-state/
“Now if we could just get government out of the education business.”
Exactly. They dont even make a profit! True education should be supplied by corporations, like Haliburton, or McDonalds!
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