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Originally Posted by Superflyer
I have a question for teachers, I hear a lot that they need to buy stuff for their classrooms, what stuff is it?
I was in a discussion with someone in the trades where he was saying that he needs to buy his own tools so the teachers should have to do the same. Since I could not say what the teachers actually buy with their own money I could not overly discuss past that.
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When I taught elementary, it was mostly whiteboard markers, paper, TONS of books. Like I spent about $200-$400 a school year on YA novels alone. Other stuff like materials for scientific demos, math manipulatives, games, hand in bins…basically anything that adds extra fun or enrichment in the classroom. The school can provide stuff like notebooks, binders, sticky notes, pencils, etc.
In high school I almost never spent my own money. They had a business office that had basically everything, and a lab technician who can prep solutions and lab equipment for me.
Not sure how you got into that conversation, I don’t speak for all teachers but it wasn’t really a big deal for me. And while I appreciate that you were engaging with someone about this topic, if someone brought that up as a talking point, I would see it as a distraction from the main issue, which is classroom size and complexity, the government’s failure to account for the population growth that they themselves created, and the use of the notwithstanding clause to silence a labour group.