$480? Cry me a river
Big deal
I spent more then that on a new suit.
When I worked in a school district every classroom teacher had $3,000 to spend on supplies for their classrooms, this is stuff beyond what is already bought, like computers, equipment, text books, etc. My department I ran was the IT department, I had a $250,000 yearly budget for the district with one school.
Did some teachers use personal funds to buy school supplies, sure did. But mostly for stuff that isn’t sold in the catalogs. Did some file the form and receipt to get reimbursed? Sure, some did, but others didn’t cause it was a small amount anyways. But they all sure like to bitch about it like $50 was like half of their 80K a year salary and they would end up living in a van down by the river...
And the biggest complainers about their salary were the veteran (as in they were there longest) teachers, they all would bitch about how lowly paid they were, but were actually making around 110K-125K a year. They would compare their salaries at Corporate America, or veteran police officers, and when I would point out that none of those positions get the summers off, every single stupid federal holiday off or weeks off for Christmas break or Easter Break, their faces would get red
The least complainers were your new teachers, the ones fresh out of college, making 47K a year, they were just happy to have a job. Teaching jobs in NJ is very competitive and many won’t get a teaching job. Too many grads, not enough openings.
Get rid of the unions and this problem would solve itself.
That is actually a great point.
An admin assistant (secretary) could spend that in a year on pantyhose.