What in the WORLD am I going to do when I have THREE kids in school....
Is it just me, or does everyone think that a swanky job would be public school administration? I mean, come ON... that MUST be where the tax money goes... since it isn't getting to the teachers....
Now, as to why that same tax money can't buy copy paper for the copying machine or tissues (which I don't even keep around my own home.... TP anyone?) for the classrooms gets kind of frustrating.
I mean, sheesh, here pretty quick the Tax cuts from several years ago will expire and most likely we will end up with new taxes to try to balance the national budget. I don't know where I'm going to get the money for supplying the whole school with office supplies!
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I think it is really sad that the schools don't have enough money for things like copy paper. But I buy it anyway because I know (hope) it will help my kids out somehow.
And just so you know, teachers usually feel really bad about having to put stuff like that on school supply lists. If they had the budget for it, they wouldn't ask. My mom teaches jr. high. Guess what her budget for supplies is for the WHOLE year? $200. For 5 classes of 30 - 35 students for three trimesters. She can't afford to buy all the stuff she needs on her own (for example,she had to buy a $700 TV for her classroom last year on her own dime because the school had no money to replace the one she had that basically imploded. Not easy to do on a teacher's salary.), so she has to ask the parents to help out. And she hates it.
Oh, I get it, I feel bad for the teachers as well... it's the administration I'm ticked at. They are the only place I can see that the money is probably going to... sigh. I buy it too, it just get pricey fast with 3 kids.
Oh, I know it gets pricey. I felt lucky to only spend $100 per kid this year.
The whole thing is just frustrating. But, I think that is what we get for electing an idiot to be in charge of our schools...a person who has never taught or ran a school a day in his life and the only reason he won is because he was a Republican. Grr. Not that am I bitter.
And I am going to quit writing novels for comments now. :)
Yeah, agreed, in fact I really hate it when a party allegiance is all it takes to get elected for anything.... grr is right.
I've decided that I'm going to buy stock in dry erase markers because of all of the markers I have to buy for the kids' teachers.
Tell me again why we switched all the classrooms from blackboards to whiteboards? Chalk is cheaper. So much cheaper in fact that our parents didn't have to supply it back in the day.
I'm happy to help out, but the loads of dry erase markers that the teachers need me to buy for them feels a little unreasonable. I don't know. I just feel bad. I don't understand why our school administrators can't budget for that a bit better.
It's so poorly run, that to save the district money, our elementary school only heated the classrooms last winter and not the hallways. When I went for my volunteer reading with the kids, I had to read with them out in the hallway and you could always find me bundled up in a thick coat and gloves and the poor kid I was reading with would be shivering. We need to stop cutting teachers' salaries and start cutting at the top.
I hear you. I love the school Riley goes to - it's a charter school - but we're asked to send supplies at the beginning of the year, send MORE when they run out, and do fundraising as well. I wonder when the people in charge will get a clue...
Yeah, I spent $60 on school supplies for my kiddos this year. Killer. And yes, the money does go to administration. Have you seen the swanky district offices? The one I worked for in Utah had those automatic foaming hand soap dispensers. And me and my students were washing our hands with that ajax powder stuff. My classroom was 100 degrees in September and 60 degrees in the winter, so I had to buy all my own fans and space heaters. It was super special. I bought classroom sets of novels with my own money, and the kids had to check them out if they were behind and needed to bring them home.
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