voiceofsandiego.org: Education... Art Supplies: $20. Soccer Uniform: $25. Cost of Public Education? Supposedly Free:
By EMILY ALPERT
"Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 Guadalupe Amro loves soccer -- and so does his teenage son Mario. But he doesn't love the price tag. To play on the team at Serra High School, Amro said he shells out money for a ball and an official school uniform. Ordinary shorts and a T-shirt won't do.
'Those are the rules,' Amro said in Spanish, speaking on the telephone from his City Heights home. He estimated that he spent more than $55 on soccer supplies for his son. 'Children that don't have the school uniform can't play.'"
By EMILY ALPERT
"Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 Guadalupe Amro loves soccer -- and so does his teenage son Mario. But he doesn't love the price tag. To play on the team at Serra High School, Amro said he shells out money for a ball and an official school uniform. Ordinary shorts and a T-shirt won't do.
'Those are the rules,' Amro said in Spanish, speaking on the telephone from his City Heights home. He estimated that he spent more than $55 on soccer supplies for his son. 'Children that don't have the school uniform can't play.'"