Reply #78: High school level.

[AlabamaLibrul]

Middle school is/was $35-40 IIRC. No lockers in elementary school.

And then mandatory uniforms at a *public* school, all public schools in the county, which is really just a highly-dictated polo shirt/khaki type deal in white/navy tops and khaki/navy bottoms only with all of these little specifics about minutia, but since the retailers know exactly what you *have* to wear, well, the price situation is predictable.

$5 for a "planner" (I use the term loosely, it's just a little spiral notebook that could be half the size if they didn't insist on including a bunch of BS nobody cares about in it)

A form describing what type of housing you live in upon registration.

$25 for a presumably taxpayer-funded "parking space" on school grounds.

$25 at registration just for being a senior, called "graduation express fee" or some BS, when you still have to pay all the costs for the graduation ceremony itself.

Mandatory drug testing for being in the academic bowl.

Principal made references to "running this place like a concentration camp" or "a Nazi" because of jackass kids being jackasses and shouting inappropriate words during the "Freshman Welcome" assembly and a couple other times.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot, because I'm so lucky as to have gotten out of the goddamned awful 2000s school game after last year.