After waiting for two weeks for my school to provide me with a stapler, I just ordered one myself.
That’s only about $15 per taxpayer. I don’t see why people are so opposed to giving them a card with a set limit for the year.
United States should be ashamed a salesman can deduct a baseball game with clients and alike but teaches get 250$ deductions max. Yet we’re wasting arguing about political nonsense.
That’s probably the same amount of money that NEVER leaves Washington DC…
And they can’t write it off either.
I wouldn’t spend a dime as a teacher. “Why can’t Timmy and Julie do something fun in class”!? Because your bitch ass won’t pay for it. I would use the tools I’m given, and nothing else.
Couldn’t they simply not buy any of that stuff?
That’s me! At some point I value my kids’ learning environment and opportunities, and my own joy I get out of teaching more than the principle of spending my own finances. I’m selfish enough to keep it to my own classroom, but I’d rather just solve the problem than continue to see them suffer with subpar things and perpetuate inequity.
The solution I would like is a predictable, dedicated budget that is the district’s money, no matter how small, no matter how strictly regulated, that is for my classroom only. Relying on ineffective and wasteful administrators isn’t ever going to work.
Convincing teachers that they ***have to*** sacrifice for their students is one of the most heinous crimes in education.
I taught. I spent my own money. Then I realized nope, and stopped. And the number of teachers and parents who complained that I wouldn’t spend my money was amazing.
The amount of money teachers ask from parents is kinda crazy too.
Good thing we pay them so well
It’s because the schools are spending all their money on trans kids sex changes!! s/
This is the truth. A close friend of the family made an Amazon wish list for her class. My wife and I contributed around $100 in stuff. Just normal supplies. I guess some of it would obviously not be bought by the government, but nothing was things she didn’t need.
I find it hilarious the number of people in here that are saying “I just wouldn’t spend any of my own money…..”
Sometimes we dont have a choice, and its either we provide the best opportunity for our students to learn, or just throw our hands up and say we can just skip these topics. Also students break our purchased items all the time and need to be replaced. I can’t go a semester without 20% of my protractors or rulers being broken because kids love spinning them on their pencils or fingers.
Teachers like myself that work in low income schools (90% of my students qualify for free/reduced lunch) only shows the gap between the rich and poor areas. Add the fact the federal govt makes it a deduction and not a credit just a plain slap to the face as well.
Meanwhile my company sent an email two weeks ago that they’re cutting costs so no longer buying office supplies. I’m not a teacher.
If we are spending $11,500 per child for K-12 education I can see no reason the school districts can’t provide supplies.
We show up to the meet the teacher with giftcards in hand. $100 per teacher (2 teachers per kid). And fortunately our school is experimenting with dumping the stupid fundraiser companies and has directly asked for money. It’s either going to be $200 or $400 total there as well.
I don’t like having to fund these things, but knowing that 100% of my funds are going to my kids school is totally worth it.
But you can’t tax billionaires right?
Hey, but $250 dollars for tax deductions. Amirite?
This would be about a thousand dollars a teacher.
Why fund schools when teachers’ll do it for you!?
Mechanics spend that every month.
The y-axis isn’t even labeled, making the chart completely useless. If I were a teacher, I’d give that a D-.
How can this be? Taxes and the lottery money should cover everything! /s
I am curious.. on the list of supplies i am supposed to get for my kid, there are 3 packs of dry erase markers that each have 8 markers in them… there are 20 kids in the class.. is 160 markers enough ya think?
Wow! $3.25B. Imagine what good could be done with that money.
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After waiting for two weeks for my school to provide me with a stapler, I just ordered one myself.
That’s only about $15 per taxpayer. I don’t see why people are so opposed to giving them a card with a set limit for the year.
United States should be ashamed a salesman can deduct a baseball game with clients and alike but teaches get 250$ deductions max. Yet we’re wasting arguing about political nonsense.
That’s probably the same amount of money that NEVER leaves Washington DC…
And they can’t write it off either.
I wouldn’t spend a dime as a teacher. “Why can’t Timmy and Julie do something fun in class”!? Because your bitch ass won’t pay for it. I would use the tools I’m given, and nothing else.
Couldn’t they simply not buy any of that stuff?
That’s me! At some point I value my kids’ learning environment and opportunities, and my own joy I get out of teaching more than the principle of spending my own finances. I’m selfish enough to keep it to my own classroom, but I’d rather just solve the problem than continue to see them suffer with subpar things and perpetuate inequity.
The solution I would like is a predictable, dedicated budget that is the district’s money, no matter how small, no matter how strictly regulated, that is for my classroom only. Relying on ineffective and wasteful administrators isn’t ever going to work.
Convincing teachers that they ***have to*** sacrifice for their students is one of the most heinous crimes in education.
I taught. I spent my own money. Then I realized nope, and stopped. And the number of teachers and parents who complained that I wouldn’t spend my money was amazing.
The amount of money teachers ask from parents is kinda crazy too.
Good thing we pay them so well
It’s because the schools are spending all their money on trans kids sex changes!! s/
This is the truth. A close friend of the family made an Amazon wish list for her class. My wife and I contributed around $100 in stuff. Just normal supplies. I guess some of it would obviously not be bought by the government, but nothing was things she didn’t need.
I find it hilarious the number of people in here that are saying “I just wouldn’t spend any of my own money…..”
Sometimes we dont have a choice, and its either we provide the best opportunity for our students to learn, or just throw our hands up and say we can just skip these topics. Also students break our purchased items all the time and need to be replaced. I can’t go a semester without 20% of my protractors or rulers being broken because kids love spinning them on their pencils or fingers.
Teachers like myself that work in low income schools (90% of my students qualify for free/reduced lunch) only shows the gap between the rich and poor areas. Add the fact the federal govt makes it a deduction and not a credit just a plain slap to the face as well.
Meanwhile my company sent an email two weeks ago that they’re cutting costs so no longer buying office supplies. I’m not a teacher.
If we are spending $11,500 per child for K-12 education I can see no reason the school districts can’t provide supplies.
We show up to the meet the teacher with giftcards in hand. $100 per teacher (2 teachers per kid). And fortunately our school is experimenting with dumping the stupid fundraiser companies and has directly asked for money. It’s either going to be $200 or $400 total there as well.
I don’t like having to fund these things, but knowing that 100% of my funds are going to my kids school is totally worth it.
But you can’t tax billionaires right?
Hey, but $250 dollars for tax deductions. Amirite?
This would be about a thousand dollars a teacher.
Why fund schools when teachers’ll do it for you!?
Mechanics spend that every month.
The y-axis isn’t even labeled, making the chart completely useless. If I were a teacher, I’d give that a D-.
How can this be? Taxes and the lottery money should cover everything! /s
I am curious.. on the list of supplies i am supposed to get for my kid, there are 3 packs of dry erase markers that each have 8 markers in them… there are 20 kids in the class.. is 160 markers enough ya think?
Wow! $3.25B. Imagine what good could be done with that money.
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