#vouchers

[buffetlicious]

Walked pass Nine Fresh (九鲜) in Sun Plaza and mum wanted aiyu jelly dessert. Their seasonal Sour Plum Ai-Yu Series promotion is still on even though it indicated only till 15th July 2024. You also receives a set of Vouchers with a minimum spending of S$9 during their 12th anniversary celebration.

Bought both the A and B items on the menu and topped up S$1 sweetened red beans for the two cups. Mum got the Sour Plum Ai-Yu A (蜂蜜寒天青梅爱玉冻) which comes with sour plum aiyu, honey popping jellies, kantan jellies and taro balls.

I took the Sour Plum Ai-Yu B (珍珠芦荟青梅爱玉冻) with sour plum aiyu, aloe vera cubes, black pearls and taro balls. The jelly is infused with the salty and sourish flavours of sour plums which in turn adds a refreshing profile to the otherwise sweet dessert.

Topmost image from Nine Fresh Singapore.

[liberalsarecool]

School choice and vouchers produce nothing but corporate greed and a 67% fail rate.

The kids/students don't deserve these adults.

[nawilla]

Crafty Dilemmas

I have $15 in Michaels vouchers expiring on February 1st. Trying to figure out what to put it toward.

Craft supplies? Decor? Storage? (I just stocked up on storage containers, hence the $10 voucher).

Ideas welcome.

[moonbean117]

[lenbryant]

Their war on education continues. They like their voters to be poorly educated.

[country-corner]

With all the issues with food and other products, I keep hearing things like we need to bring back rationing, the government needs to hand out vouchers good for only so much food/product per person (think WIC type vouchers) per month, stores should restrict how much people can buy so everyone gets their "fair share". The problem is I keep hearing this from people ranging from about 30 to 45. Many I see driving hybrid cars/trucks or have some other nearly new vehicle. Many also gripe about the "hoarding" done by preppers and homesteaders.

Questions they never want to answer:

Who decides what is everyone's "Fair Share"?

Who, at the store decides what the limit on sales is? Now I can see if the store gets a limited amount of items (think nearly every Christmas or the last ammo shortage), they can limit to 1 or 2 per person. But think things like eggs, what is the monthly limit per person, 3? 6? 12? If it is a family of 6 does everyone need to go through the checkout to get their limit? Or can one family member go through with everyone's ID to buy the per person limit? What about meat? OTC Medications? How many aspirins/tylenols per person monthly? Sanitary items? Antacids? Bandaids and what size? Baby wipes? Diapers? The list goes on.

As for government vouchers, I see people who get WIC and Food Stamps that complain because it's not enough to make it to the next allocation date. But others have (FS) funds left at the end of the month, or trade with friends/family items from their WIC benefits because the kid can't, not wont but CAN'T eat what the voucher pays for and are told if they don't get everything they risk loosing their benefits.

What IS everyone's fair share? And how would that be determined? What if you was limited to something you can't eat/use but are prevented from buying what you can eat/use because it's not fair to others?

[emptyjunior]

Hey gang! Per request, I've started doing digital vouchers! Feel free to email me with the amount you want to gift a friend and once we're sorted then they can commission me like normal when I'm Open and use their voucher!

And here's my price ranges again so you can see what amounts to be thinking🙏

(And genuine apologies I haven't been open too much this month, finishing off some work over the next few weeks but should be Active again soon.)

[davidaugust]

Their “statement of nondiscriminatory policy” actually ends with the nonsense quoted in the post, and points out school vouchers are…not good.

[pauket]

25 Brands onboarded within100 days | Pauket

[truetravelplanner]

Learn the best 9 tips to find hotel vouchers for the homeless online in this step-by-step guide. Discover eligibility criteria, & reliable resources.

Here, https://youtu.be/PHy_LrNINok

[midasmgmt]

✩　item vouchers payout

the following muses have successfully completed the below tasks and have been awarded item vouchers. you may redeem now for an eligible item or keep them to use later.

kwon ahseop @goldyashes

link to qualifying activity check / post: link | link | link vouchers earned: one tertiary item voucher

bae heejin @rosesblve

link to qualifying activity check / post: one two three four vouchers earned: one tertiary item voucher link to qualifying post: thread for unit - solo - doltalk submission vouchers earned: one tertiary item voucher

moon rena / liv @moonlitgem

link to qualifying post:  thread - solo - open starter - era breakdown - playlist - through the eyes of fans vouchers earned: one tertiary item voucher and one standard item voucher

do jihan / noh saetbyeol / seo daon @swandivers

link to qualifying post: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine vouchers earned: one tertiary item voucher per muse

do jihan

link to qualifying post: one, two, three vouchers earned: one standard item voucher

seo daon @selfmythologize

link to qualifying post: one, two, three vouchers earned: one standard item voucher

kang junyoung @junjulys

link to qualifying activity check / post: link | link | link vouchers earned: one tertiary item voucher

oh daewon / wonil @torrentials

link to qualifying activity check / post: 6+ ama questions submitted vouchers earned: four standard item vouchers

suh eunbin @minusn0ne

link to qualifying activity check / post: official profile - link diary entry - link playlist - link vouchers earned: one standard item voucher

[lettersfrom412]

Vouchers

Secretary Linda McMahon declares that vouchers work because parents will always do what's best for their children. I don't share her confidence. So I'm glad we have public schools -- a structured, civil and common society that is there for the most lost. Vouchers do nothing for them.

The original 1955 voucher idea set a floor – a low floor – for basic education, and people of means could find something better. Saving money was the intent, not choice and competition. In 1981, Milton Friedman and Augusto Pinochet conducted a nationwide voucher experiment in Chile. None of the promises were realized. The disinvestment in public schools, fraud and corruption among private schools – happened exactly as predicted.

The United States' longest running voucher experiments are Milwaukee and Cleveland. Parents who used vouchers were happy for the help. But both cities saw more exploitation than innovation – not the dynamic education marketplace advocates promised.

After 40 years of voucher experiments, private school students are the same 10 percent of enrollment they've been since 1960. We should focus on where the students are - America's public schools.

[hisforhome]

We're 18 years old today

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

David Fitzsimmons, Arizona Daily Star

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Across Florida, spontaneous demonstrations against Ron DeSantis' gutting of public education. This summer, Iris Mogul – a junior at a Miami high school – found out that she wouldn’t be able to take an AP African American history course that she had planned for the coming semester because it had been blocked by the state’s department of education.

“As presented, the content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value,” the department said in a statement. “It felt so far away when I first heard about all of this,” says Mogul, who only had a passing knowledge of book challenges and changes to school curriculum previously. “But that is really when it hit me – when it started to affect me directly.”

Now, Mogul is prominent among the growing number of students and parents in Miami-Dade county and across Florida who are speaking out in opposition to book challenges, the capture of Florida school boards by conservative activists and this summer’s latest policy changes, which includes the expansion of DeSantis’s Parental Rights in Education Act.

[‘Reading is resistance’: students and parents take on DeSantis’s book bans]

[marybethlee]

Public Schools Are Community Schools

Parents should be irate with the voucher supporting politicians calling their community schools mediocre. Are there public schools with problems? You bet. We hold them accountable. We can because they are public schools. Years ago I worked in a district with some great private schools. But there were also private schools in the district that did little more than color Sunday School worksheets…