r/MadeMeSmile • u/mustu04 • 8h ago

❤️ those days

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u/NotNamedBort 8h ago

I don’t know about anyone else, but this doesn’t make me smile. It just makes me angry that teachers are so underpaid and underappreciated.

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u/NoBookkeeper3523 7h ago

My first wife was a teacher, I was amazed at the amount of our money went to pay for things the school should have taken care of, she would buy pens and paper for high school kids, and don’t get me started on all the extra unpaid hours we would have to spend at extracurricular activities. Some weekend the only way we could spent time together I had to go help sell soda and popcorn at ball games, and a lot of the time we bought the stuff on the way

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u/EtchAGetch 2h ago

But hey, you get to write $300 off your income for teacher expenses on your 1040 tax form, for savings of like $60!

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u/NoBookkeeper3523 1h ago

This was around 2000, so I can’t remember how much was spent, but it was quite a bit more that our tax right off