[EinNYC]

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.

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.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Of course that’s not all they have to spend. Any more and they need the requisition process. My thoughts were just a flat discretionary budget for little stuff, no year to year carry forward. It would probably relieve a lot of overhead / management duties too. They won’t have to go begging the parents and crap.

Of course most of them have lived in a government cocoon so long they won’t understand it.