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.
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.