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Your 2nd hand experience of teaching from an educator 20 years ago is very different from the current reality. School districts have taken on more task and pass
by yardie 4y ago
Your 2nd hand experience of teaching from an educator 20 years ago is very different from the current reality. School districts have taken on more task and passed the responsibility of executing them to the frontline workers (teachers).
To save money they technically get laid off every summer and rehired in the fall. They do this because the schoolboard budget can be changed at any moment. If they need to layoff a lot of teachers the formal paperwork is already done. You can imagine this can be extremely stressful, especially for new teachers.
> I’ve always had to spend $500-2000/year on supplies and equipment.
That is supplies bought to use for you by you. It would be different if you bought supplies for someone else.
- prepend 4y agoThat’s not just supplies for me. It’s supplies for my team, for office activities, for user events, etc. My point is that many people buy supplies for their work, it’s not unique to teaching. It’s surprising that it’s brought up as it it’s some unique factor.
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- carapace 4y ago> My point is that many people buy supplies for their work Sure, with the money their work budgets for those supplies. Teachers are having to spend part of their own paychecks to buy supplies. If your job requires you to pay for supplies out of your own paycheck then that's obviously a raw deal, just a sneaky way to pay lower wages.
- prepend 4y agoTo clarify, I meant that many people buy supplies and aren’t reimbursed by their employers. I agree that it sucks that we aren’t reimbursed by our employers. At least teachers get a small tax credit. Better than nothing, but still not enough.