Why do US teachers have to ask parents to bring basic school supplies? - eviltoast

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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    9 months ago

    Schools in well funded states literally need like double what they’re getting, and they need it yesterday.

    Let alone worse funded states. Can’t imagine what public education is like in rural Idaho.

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      9 months ago

      As someone from Central Pennsylvania with only 300 total students from K-12th grade, we are simultaneously drowning and shooting ourselves in the foot with the local R’s we put on school boards

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        9 months ago

        Eh… i wouldn’t use the wording shooting anywhere near the words schools.