[mewzilla]

This teacher's awful free with other people's money. Is she planning to pay the difference in cost that the parents would incur if they shopped at the other place?

[elli1]

Not parent's money--it's fund money:

So Strand became a reluctant Wal-Mart shopper -- venturing in from time to time to pick up supplies and emergency items for disadvantaged students, such as coats and shoes. She'd get reimbursed through the Washington Education Association's Children's Fund, a decade-old charity that provides up to $100 per student each year.

Link to WEA Children's Fund Sponsors

Note that Staples is one of the sponsors of the fund. I wonder how their employee wages & benny's stack up w/ WalMart's.