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Originally Posted by rain_e
Completely voluntary I agree. I'm not sure how you go about putting this on the parents when I assume they don't have the money.
As for necessary spending my wife spends money on additional school supplies for the kids and books as teaching aids. Again these are voluntary. She could just use the chalk supplied by the school I guess. I'm guessing she spends about $1000 a year on these items.
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Its a systematic problem then, and there are probably better ways to help parents that are falling behind then teachers having to spend their own money on it, and there are programs for that out there.
The argument is that teachers are spending this money to buy things that the school isn't providing so that teachers can fulfil their end of the job description, but that's not necessarily true.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being generous or donating, but you can't use that as part of a debate that teachers are spending personal funds to do the job that is defined for them.
I just want to know what is voluntary and what are teachers spending that the school isn't providing them that they have to have.
Buying clothes for a student isn't the job of a teacher, and not to sound ruthless, but if parents are having trouble with providing essentials to their kids then that's a whole bigger problem and how much are you really helping them by buying their kids lunch or buying them clothes? It feels like a bandaid and not a solution.
I'm not begrudging someones kind nature, in a sense I respect it, but I don't know if its the best solution.
And it feels like a loaded argument when someone says We have to spend $1000.00 a year out of our pocket to do our job. That's not really true. What's the real figure?