This teacher will tell the opposite, sort of. Parents should visit the dumpsters to get brand new school supplies purchased by other parents. If your room gets moved, somehow everything ends up in the dumpsters but funds will be available to purchase new ones (well, that was done by new to us teachers, “oh, sorry, those weren’t for our class so we didn’t know.” Lying little witches.). Heck, the budget magically found ways to increase the building trades to build the principal a new house since he was ok with the same counter tops and paint, etc. the school uses and cleans his suits, etc. We didn’t have new textbooks the same year as his house was being built but the state auditors couldn’t figure out why.
The copy room is filled with enough wasted paper to start a new forest. Custodians do a good job of cleaning the schools but are lined up at lunch time constantly emptying garbage cans from tossed out trays that walk from the lunch line straight to the garbage cans without being touched. Teachers have 17 students AND an aide or six. The troubled kids have their own unarmed security aides instead of sending them to the alternative school for everyone’s safety. There are aides here, there and everywhere but they somehow can’t hire decent teachers or principals. Often, students have to teach themselves. Why do principals always have to be ex-coaches and bring their attitudes?
This is why property taxes are $25,000 a year (not a typo) for dinky 1500 sq foot 1960s homes.
You HAVE to live in the same district I just moved out of lol. That sounds EXACTLY like the district my youngest just aged out of.