Teachers are not paid enough. Somehow, students' and teachers' needs are the last things considered nowadays. It seems administration officials like school boards, superintendents and accountants, take up most of the school budget, as well as the office buildings for those people.
This is the heartbreaking state of affairs for teachers. My niece just started her first year of teaching with a very small budget. I sent her $600 and paid half to buy her a desktop computer for use at home. It is not enough, as many supplies are consumable. As a former teacher, I know the challenges first hand. None of my parents had money to contribute and I did not ask them.
Without adequate supplies, teachers cannot teach and students are unequipped to learn.
We need to do better for our schools and make sure teachers have adequate supplies to teach without a constant worry about having enough for their students.
"Public obligation," indeed. What a two-bit piece of garbage country this is. This is what we do to our future, so that people who have vastly more money than they have any use for can have more?
Beth Freeman, we had a supply store, and students had to buy what they needed. It was long ago, and no one spent hundreds of dollars. It was probably not $1. And that was on Miami Beach.
Jan Dale, it is one of our many shames that we underpay the people who do a critical job that parents couldn't or wouldn't do themselves.
Anaundda Elijah, "heartbreaking," of course. For everyone. And it's a different world, based on "technology," like that laptop, that we didn't have. (I was born in 1950.) I always say that technology is billed as making things easier, faster, and cheaper. It makes them harder, slower, and much more expensive. I'm told there are students today who don't know how to write -- don't know penmanship -- except their names, because they do everything on some sort of keypad. And it's not that we need to do better for our schools. We need to do better for our offspring, and the people we hire to do for them what we couldn't do for them.
Along with greed, "convenience", and voluntary stupidity, individual servings and buying nothing in bulk is killing us. Form a food club with friends, family, and neighbors, and have a dividing party once or twice a month. Do the math and work together.
Parents might consider the often overlooked poverty not only of their school pocket book but also the quality of education they are paying for with their taxes. And, let’s not forget student favoritism shown by faculty in school sports.
When I went to school, back in the dark ages(60s & 70s) basically we had to bring our own supplies to school. There was no list that parents had, they knew that their kids needed pencils, paper, notebook,Pee-Che folders (remember those) and other odds and ends, but I can’t really remember what. But the parents provided them for their children, but if they couldn’t afford it, it was provided by the school. And not in a way that it would embarrass the children whose parents did not have a lot of money to spend on school supplies. So I guess times have changed, but it sure would be nice if the schools would actually think that this is stuff that the children need and it should be provided by the district. I have friends that are school teachers and I think that $175 is the allowance that they get for the whole year, which is a crock of bullshit.
And now with the department of education we have with this regime, I’m very doubtful that education will be getting any better. I just hope to God we have the teachers that really are as dedicated as they have been for the last hundreds of years to teach our children.
When I went to school there was no list of supplies we had to have. We got to choose our own supplies. Crayons and paste were supplied at school.
Teachers are not paid enough. Somehow, students' and teachers' needs are the last things considered nowadays. It seems administration officials like school boards, superintendents and accountants, take up most of the school budget, as well as the office buildings for those people.
This is the heartbreaking state of affairs for teachers. My niece just started her first year of teaching with a very small budget. I sent her $600 and paid half to buy her a desktop computer for use at home. It is not enough, as many supplies are consumable. As a former teacher, I know the challenges first hand. None of my parents had money to contribute and I did not ask them.
Without adequate supplies, teachers cannot teach and students are unequipped to learn.
We need to do better for our schools and make sure teachers have adequate supplies to teach without a constant worry about having enough for their students.
"Public obligation," indeed. What a two-bit piece of garbage country this is. This is what we do to our future, so that people who have vastly more money than they have any use for can have more?
Beth Freeman, we had a supply store, and students had to buy what they needed. It was long ago, and no one spent hundreds of dollars. It was probably not $1. And that was on Miami Beach.
Jan Dale, it is one of our many shames that we underpay the people who do a critical job that parents couldn't or wouldn't do themselves.
Anaundda Elijah, "heartbreaking," of course. For everyone. And it's a different world, based on "technology," like that laptop, that we didn't have. (I was born in 1950.) I always say that technology is billed as making things easier, faster, and cheaper. It makes them harder, slower, and much more expensive. I'm told there are students today who don't know how to write -- don't know penmanship -- except their names, because they do everything on some sort of keypad. And it's not that we need to do better for our schools. We need to do better for our offspring, and the people we hire to do for them what we couldn't do for them.
Along with greed, "convenience", and voluntary stupidity, individual servings and buying nothing in bulk is killing us. Form a food club with friends, family, and neighbors, and have a dividing party once or twice a month. Do the math and work together.
Excellent article!!! Although extremely serious topic I appreciate the slight humor that made it somewhat entertaining as well, LoL
Parents might consider the often overlooked poverty not only of their school pocket book but also the quality of education they are paying for with their taxes. And, let’s not forget student favoritism shown by faculty in school sports.
When I went to school, back in the dark ages(60s & 70s) basically we had to bring our own supplies to school. There was no list that parents had, they knew that their kids needed pencils, paper, notebook,Pee-Che folders (remember those) and other odds and ends, but I can’t really remember what. But the parents provided them for their children, but if they couldn’t afford it, it was provided by the school. And not in a way that it would embarrass the children whose parents did not have a lot of money to spend on school supplies. So I guess times have changed, but it sure would be nice if the schools would actually think that this is stuff that the children need and it should be provided by the district. I have friends that are school teachers and I think that $175 is the allowance that they get for the whole year, which is a crock of bullshit.
And now with the department of education we have with this regime, I’m very doubtful that education will be getting any better. I just hope to God we have the teachers that really are as dedicated as they have been for the last hundreds of years to teach our children.