Posted on 05/15/2018 8:58:34 AM PDT by EinNYC
Nearly all public school teachers report digging into their pockets to pay for school supplies, spending nearly $480 a year, far more than the federal $250 tax deduction available to teachers.
The findings by the National Center of Education Statistics released Tuesday come as teachers across the country are walking out of classrooms to protest low pay and demand pay raises. Helping teachers pay for class supplies was a key demand during the Arizona teachers’ strike.
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That is pretty ridiculous that teachers are expected to purchase school supplies for their students from their own pocket.
Not to mention the "old" equipment they take home, speakers, TV's vcr's, you name it.
Expected is the key word. Many employees are "expected" to do a lot of stuff, but we're not seeing crybaby studies about their profession.
If there’s proper paperwork, I don’t care who buys or takes home what. But I saw plenty of hinky tax-exempt sales, and every single one was without a purchase order.
I’m not that sympathetic to the leftists’ screams to spend more on education, as we spend a bundle already, and we’ve gone from second in the world when the Department of Education was formed in 1979 to near the bottom. But this is one area the school districts should be covering, not the teachers themselves. (Buy and get reimbursed, if the need is immediate.)
Unfortunately, they would rather spend the money on a massive excess of administrators.
Really?
You made my point. No, I don't believe that every teacher in L.A. is corrupt. I'm sure LA has teachers that shouldn't be there,like every other profession.Painting everyone in a profession with a broad brush is unfair to the good ones and you certainly can't say that every school district is the same as LA.
I've known some former LA teachers though and I can say you couldn't pay me enough to work there.
I wouldn't even say that every ambulance chasing, lying, two-faced lawyer is corrupt because there could be one that isn't. Now if the person is a Demonrat, that changes everything, they're always corrupt...
Teachers here in Ontario, Canada, sure aren’t underpaid. They make as good or better money than I do, with a gold-plated pension plan. Still, I’m forever seeing kids fund-raising to buy extra supplies for their classes. Given the amount of money we dump into public schools, there shouldn’t be any need, ever, for a teacher to spend their own money for in-class supplies.
Wait a minute. How can one belong to a union supported by Communist and other anti-American organizations and not be corrupt?
How does that work?
And I noted you evaded the question. Lets try again.
>>Are you suggesting the thousands of corrupt unionized teachers in LA, the largest school district in the country, are not overpaid?
First off, end of the year isn’t good enough. It needs to be done within 2-3 weeks. Run it like a business. And then again a stipend? No, they need to be freakin’ expenses, the teachers need to graduate to the real world. But then again when has the NYC Public schools ever been on planet earth.
Hell, just give a student extra credit for managing the expense account. Some teacher’s aren’t too swift.
How does that work?
Not every teacher in the country is part of the NEA and not everyone is part of a union. In Texas, teachers aren't even allowed to join a union.
I am so tired of sanctifying teachers as if their ship don't stink...
I'll be the first....truth hurts....
I used to spend about $250/year on beer for the shipyard welders to fix stuff; it was faster than waiting for the repair request to wend it’s way through the Navy’s broken system.
Yep, beer works as a motivator :)
Gee, I sure hope you aren't an accountant. You would starve. How can teachers know what they will spend the money on in 2-3 weeks? They have to go through the whole academic year to think of learning enhancements to lesson units and therefore what they will need to spend the funds on. You might have a tentative schedule of lessons planned at the beginning of the year, only to see where you have to modify the plan if students aren't catching on to the material with the original method. So how would you possibly know a priori what you have to buy to approach the material from a different angle? Your statements are hateful and ridiculous.
In 25 years in the classroom, I never took home a single asset. It was totally the other way around, as the school gained a lot of stuff I designed and built myself. Fling your nasty inaccurate comments at someone else.
I think you're just upset to be associated with the failed and mismanaged public school system
Your statement is ridiculous. For one thing, in NYC, membership in the teachers union is mandatory if you want to work as a teacher in the system. For another thing, you are completely denigrating every single teacher. If an individual belongs to a corrupt system, does it necessarily follow that they are personally corrupt? I assume you vote. Knowing that the election system is a nest of corruption, aren't you then a corrupt person for participating in that system?
I think you are unable to deal with abstract thought and thus must paint entire groups with a broad brush. Pathetic, but that's all you can do.
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