I come from a small, poor school. Most of our teachers moonlighted as EMTs, waitresses, cashiers.
I went on to college and crawled out of the hole. But when I see teachers from that school posting about needing to raise $100 for a field trip or contributing a few bucks for a pizza party or school supplies, I yeet my money at them as fast as I can remember my paypal password.
I'd happily pay more in taxes for school, even though I'll never have kids of my own. So I figure I'll put my money where my mouth is, and when teachers start askin', I start digging around in my wallet. I can't earmark where my taxes go, but I do have full control over my donations.
They just raised our school tax 26% "to save jobs".. I lost mine and admin got raises. I'd have no problems with the taxes if they actually went to the kids and not admin. So now my taxes are up $50 a month and I'm out of work.
Are you talking about people working in the main office or at other sites for the school system? Or is it akin to execs getting paid disproportionately eg. Principles and superintendents?
The execs. It was cute though, the town came out and wore a certain color to support us aides at all the meetings. I didn't participate and told them they're going to raise taxes on the pretense of saving our jobs and still lay us off and that's exactly what they did.
It was pretty shameful, when they laid me off I told them that between their raises alone they could have saved 2 jobs. They told me to apply to be a sub.
I opted to not work out my contract, but former coworkers told me they added "not eligible for rehire" to all of the annual reviews of those who got laid off... Which means they can't work in the school system again.
Very enlightening. What exactly do the “execs” provide to compensate for their increasing incomes? Like who is benefitting from that decision besides them, there has to be some stupid or greedy bureaucratic decision making for this to happen from above them, right?
Same here. Had 60 kids in my graduating class, most of us went to kinder there as well. My mom was a TA. My in laws were the school custodian and lunch lady.
We hooked our kids teacher up with supplies this year.
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u/panteragstk 10h ago
I'm going to copy my response from another sub this picture was posted to last week:
My kid's class just earned a pizza party.
His teacher asked if parents wanted to donate pizza.
I'm paying for all of it because I can and I don't think teachers should have to spend any of their own money on the kids.
It's the least I can do for them educating my child.