Maybe not to you.
And in my state teachers don't get free health care for life. In NJ, presumably teachers don't get a choice. Maybe they'd rather take a real benefits cut, manage their own health care expense, and have some extra salary or stipend for supplies. But they don't get that choice.
The reason the issue is an agonizing one for many teachers is that since it's out of pocket, they have to choose between bills coming due and helping their students. Sure, especially in NJ there may be a fair number of teachers sitting pretty who could just cut back one latte a week, but every teacher isn't a big bad overpaid union flack.
In general, states and school districts allocate money for what they think schools need, and then teachers have to go out and buy what they actually need. It would be a winning conservative issue to empower teachers to have more control over spending priorities and put tax dollars to better use.
Maybe teachers aren’t all union flaks but they sure are represented by them. When teachers quit being nothing more than a DNC machine, we will begin respecting them again. For them to whine about buying supplies when we pay their salaries they can always go out into the real world and find out what else they have to buy.
Pray for America
I don’t know of any occupations that don’t result in out of pocket expenses, with $500 seeming to me, a non union, no benefit tradesmen as but a ho-hum, minor deal.
I don’t get it. It’s a job. It’s stupid to spend your own money to buy supplies for work.
“but every teacher isn’t a big bad overpaid union flack.”
Well, you and I most certainly disagree there!