[thatguy0900]

"“I think it’s really cool when the community offers an opportunity like this for things that educators a lot of times pay out of pocket for,” Alexandria Kuyper, a fifth-grade teacher at Discovery elementary school said."

Article kind of burys the lede, this is the issue at hand and what makes this tasteless. If this was just extra money for a field trip or something that's one thing, but this isn't a donation to the class, it's replacing things that the teachers personally buy because the schools don't purchase basic supplies.

[mcv]

Why do teachers buy supplies out of pocket? Is their pocket also the class's expense account?

Sounds like the game is the result of several levels of wrong stacked on top of each other.

[thatguy0900]

Because teachers love their students. The school says the budget is coming up short and there won't be enough crayons to go around, so the teacher has the choice of telling the students that there is no more crayons or just buying a bunch of crayons themself. But applied to all supplies.

[sudosysgen]

This heartbreaking. I can't imagine how it must feel like as a teacher, especially one that is short on cash.

[diveanon]

Teaching has to be the worst job in America right now.

[cornell532]

Where does all of the money go?

New York City is spending nearly $30,000 per student this year.

[smcg]

Bloated administration, expensive tech that doesn't work or is less good at educating than pencil and paper...

[aaomidi]

Oh boy when you find out about all the "edu-tech" companies that have sprouted up, creating "solutions" to non existent "problems". A lot of them also have family/friend relations to local governments :)

[mcv]

Is it too much to ask to first spend money on teachers and basic supplies, and only if money is left over after that, spend it on extras, new tech, experiments, and administration?

[smcg]

The supplies budget doesn't provide enough by itself so they have to either pay out of pocket or ask for donations.