Posted on 09/17/2019 4:42:00 PM PDT by bgill
These purchases add up.
That’s why KXAN investigators surveyed nearly 50 elementary, middle and high school teachers in Central Texas to learn how much they spent or plan to spend out of their own pockets on classroom supplies this year.
More than a quarter (29%) said they spent or plan to spend between $100.00 and $250.00. 42% spent between $250.00 and $500.00. Another 29% said they spent more than $500.00 on classroom supplies. Jones is in her second year of teaching. She says in her first year, she spent around $2,000. This year she said she’ll spend less money, but it will still be more than $500.00.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
Yes and Catholic schools and other parochial schools generally do a better job in almost every city at significantly lower cost than public schools.
School vouchers are what is needed but dems and their union fight that.
Regardless The GOP should push school choice as it is popular with Dem voting blocks of blacks and Hispanics
True in the case of my sister who taught for 35 years.
She taught special needs students. There was a ton of paperwork required, for example each student required an individual lesson plan vs one plan per class for regular students.
I ran into her one day at Staples, she was copying material, had probably a couple of hundred pages stacked up. She said the administrative person who monitored the copy room at school didn’t understand her requirements and it was a battle every time she went to copy something. She paid out of her pocket to make copies at Staples rather than put up with the harassment at school.
What the hell are my property taxes going for?
With all the money we pay in property taxes that should be enough to supply every child in the school district.
My Mom taught for about 3 decades in a dirt poor school. I never remember her needing to buy school supplies ever coming up as a topic. Never.
When I was in screwl, supplies were never a subject and if it had been more than a trivial amount it would have been a subject for discussion. Believe me when I say we didn’t have much but we had what we needed. I never bought a 3-ring binder since parts catalogs were free from the trash.
Dad made me a pencil box out of wood with a sliding top made out of scrap wood grain formica. We painted it and he helped me paint my name on it in Gothic Script because at 5 I thought it was neat for some reason. Stuff did not go missing from my pencil box. I kept it in my desk at school for 4 years then in my locker and now in my desk. It does not contain pencils anymore but instead much more valuable things from my children and others.
My pencil box is now over 60 years old and even went to graduate school with me then on to a 40 year career. We are retired at the farm now but still working until we can’t and are not in any hurry for that.
I don’t see why school supplies have to be expensive. All you have to do is take care of them and use them wisely like they mean something.
By taking the kids stuff and sharing, spreading the wealth around, is one sure way to teach a kid about socialism. Pencils and crayons are one way. ....but a candy bar cut up into 17 pieces is a better way. Guarantee the kid will hate socialism. (:V)
Standard practice where my kids
went to school. Supplies were
confiscated and doled out as
needed. There were lots of illegal
alien begotten who couldn’t
afford the $20.
My son worked as a custodian at an elementary school for a couple of years. At the end of the year, the teachers threw everything away. Unopened packages of crayons, pencils, you name it. In addition, they threw away the gifts the kids gave them. Including gift cards! He ended up with gift cards, DVDs, USB sticks, printers, I cannot even remember all of the items. It was ridiculous.
Also, remember teachers get to claim up to $250 on their tax returns for school supplies.
As an aside, my father was a high school teacher for 40 years. He worked his tail off. Eventually got a second job to support his family so my Mom could stay home. Years later, he was still receiving thank you notes and visits from former students. He was a good teacher and provided kids with more than kleenex or colored pencils. He also brought home gifts he received and appreciated them.
Well, maybe if their Cadillac health bennies and pensions didn’t cost district taxpayers so much, there’d be more money available for salaries
Note to teachers everywhere: Talk to your unions.
utter garbage......so sick of this media driven crap about our “poor” teachers......SHOW US YOUR PAYCHECKS and all your bennies for 185 days of work, if that....
As far as their pay, percentage pay increases have caused older teachers at the high end to be over paid in many places, and teachers at the low end to be under paid, just when they need money the most.
We need to go to flat dollar increases, and in many places, no increases at the high end for a while.
Well. Teachers mostly make more than average salary, so too bad. Try having 4 kids and buying all this extra crap. And yes. It’s mostly all crap.
Yep - I had a couple of teachers sitting behind me at an Angels baseball game complaining that CA’s taxes were too high and that they both wanted to move to Nevada after they retired for the lower taxes.
These teachers are thieves and the governments are thieves for stealing money from me to fund these horrible indoctrination centers. I would never send my kids to a public school.
JoMa
Spot on.
Cant believe it. I find it fascinating how your kids coped with that.
Me and the wife didn’t cope with
it well either. We handed out
our kids supplies on a daily
basis. The school even sent us
a reprimand as to how unfair
we were towards the rest of the
students who couldn’t afford the
supplies.
“The school even sent us
a reprimand as to how unfair
we were towards the rest of the
students who couldn’t afford the
supplies.”
***
are you kidding me? I’m just curious what you told your kid about all of this..
My son came home after the first
day at school and told us about the
supplies, about how the teacher
collected them and placed them in a
locked cabinet. I told my son that
we would keep the supplies at home
that he needed, and he would take
what he needed for that day. We
didn’t let him in on why the school
was operating in this manner.
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