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Why do US teachers have to ask parents to bring basic school supplies? (lemm.ee)
submitted 5 months ago by GiddyGap@lemm.ee to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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I've also seen US teachers spending hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets to stock classrooms.

I spent a lot of time in European schools and I've never heard of teachers having to stock their own classrooms or fundraise for things like playgrounds, etc.

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[-] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

My partner is a teacher and we spend around $200 a month just on snacks for their classroom (snacks have to be individually packaged, and there's 36 kids per class, so that's 72 snacks a day, Because the kids have a morning snack and an afternoon snack.) Even with donors, choose PTA and other groups. We just know that there's a certain amount of our income each month that's going to go too supporting her classroom. It sucks but we have accepted it, because by us not doing that the kids are just going to suffer.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I know that you probably get a tax deduction for it, but stories like these are still just crazy to me. These things should be taken care of by the school district, not the individual teachers. Wow.

[-] mke_geek@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

It sounds like you're enabling the problem by continuing to spend the money.

[-] strawberry@kbin.run 1 points 5 months ago

and then proceed to not even use them

shopping list: 3 notebooks actually ends up using a quarter of one

[-] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I'm addition to all the completely valid points about teachers being salary fucked, have you ever sat in a room full of kids with colds? The sniffling is brutal. It will grind your brain into sawdust. In an office you can pop earbuds in. Not so much in a classroom. Hence, every kiddo brings in tissues, and whatever, to save your sanity.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 5 months ago

My mom had to drink puke on a radio show to buy my siblings and I school supplies.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

bad ass

[-] Spacemanspliff@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

Things like the fact that the way the state of Ohio decides the amount of funds allocated to the school districts being found unconstitutional in the 90s but them still using the exact same system to date is probably a large portion of it.

[-] Hello_there@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

Taking the opportunity to tell about https://www.donorschoose.org/
Local teachers asking for help buying supplies for classrooms. With prices and item lists so you know where it's going.

Also it's a great way to check out disparities in education. The low income school is asking for erasers and pencils and carpets for kids to sit on, and the rich school is asking to buy iPads to replace the old iPads.

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