While parents are heading to office supply stores with their kids to get them ready to head back to school, some local teachers are turning to internet crowdfunding to meet their students’ needs for the next academic year.
Scrolling through Donors Choose, a website geared toward teachers who require funding to purchase classroom items, shows teachers from all over the Christina School District are seeking support to purchase items for their classrooms.
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Over the past 30 years teachers salaries doubled on an inflation adjusted basis, and health/retirement benefits also shot to the sky.
Now we are.being faux shamed br the teachers unions to pay for extra school accessories out of our own pockets?
Why aren't arudent test scores improving if teachers are so well compensated?
If you are like me and want to help out after reading this article, here is Ms. Gittelman's Donors Choose site to help fund tables for her classroom: https://www.donorschoose.org/project/team-tables-needed/3412679/
Perhaps someone in this town can take a lesson from Melissa in Baltimore https://www.facebook.com/ReturningTheFavor/videos/1964830810454846/
Don't forget the T-shirts must be XXXXXL !! And they also need new Xbox's and some just released Michael Jordan sneakers !!!
---Other local fundraisers on the site include a $265 project at Newark High asking for phone chargers, bottled water, tissues, T-shirts, snacks, pencils and pens to aid students who may not have access to these items at home;---- REALLY.....phone charges, T-shirts and water....NONE AT HOME !!??? JUST MORE WELFARE HANDOUTS !!
--Shue-Medill Middle School teacher Gloria Gittelman noted....In addition to pencils, tape and 90 composition notebooks she purchases for her students, she also provides tissues, Band-aids, hand sanitizer----Shue-Medill is 63% minority......parent(s) should be providing those materials for their kids !!! Me thinks this is just more welfare along with the free meals.
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