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it does if he is in LAUSD ;)

I once had this really wacky karate teacher that made me do all sorts of household crap. Painting his fence, waxing his car... what a load of crap.

Did you sign the "it's probably not lead paint waiver?"

It sounds to me like the school is going bankrupt - or perhaps the maintenance staff is on strike (or has been fired), and the school is desperate for a work force.

My instinctive reaction is that the school is using the children for free labor, and that this is wrong. However, I guess it would depend on if they're forced to participate or not....?

My physics class spent a day cleaning the classroom & closet... And then we had to teach ourselves the last 6 weeks of the year. I kid you not.

Our high school had several 'work days' as well as car wash 'fund raisers'.

The work days were required, or tuition went up. (I kid you not). Every student was required to go to a few work days per school year. My parents, being dutch and having four children, made me go.

The 'fund raisers' were usually car washes. Apart from accepting donations at the car wash, you were also required to get donations (usually a small amount per-car) and there was a minimum number of donoations you could get. Failure to get at least a specific amount of money and: your tuition went up. Again, I kid you not.

That being said, the whole school was 'sick', since it was no more than a support system for the football team. The web site is pitiful, and just about everything is broken - save the sports section.

Addendum: the donations not at the car wash were usually solicited for via the phone. You'd call people in church, or whatever. "I'll give you 2 cents per car washed" type of thing. At the end, you'd get the total numer of cars washed, and go get the money, etc. Sorry I didn't expound on that before.

What do they do in shop class?? Weave vollyball nets??

Very weird. Wouldn't happen in Canada, I don't think.