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South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game

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Re: South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game

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Post by diveanon »

thatguy0900 wrote: post #8
mcv wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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

Re: South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game

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Post by cornell532 »

diveanon wrote: post #11
thatguy0900 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

Where does all of the money go?

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

Re: South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game

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Post by adamrezich »

our teachers are some of the most poorly paid in the country but I guarantee that this was not intended nor taken as "demeaning" by anyone involved. this is the social media thing where something gets taken out of context and posted online, someone sees it and makes a viral hot take, and then said hot take is the lens everyone views the thing through & prejudges accordingly.

(disclaimer: presently employed by a SD school system, but not this one.)

Re: South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game

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Post by smcg »

mcv wrote: post #4
thatguy0900 wrote: post #2

"“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…

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.

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

Re: South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game

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Post by smcg »

cornell532 wrote: post #12
diveanon wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Where does all of the money go? New York City is spending nearly $30,000 per student this year.

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

Re: South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game

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adamrezich wrote: post #13

our teachers are some of the most poorly paid in the country but I guarantee that this was not intended nor taken as "demeaning" by anyone involved. this is the social media thing where something gets taken out of context and posted online, someone sees it and makes a viral hot take, and then said hot take is the lens everyone views the thing through & prejudges accordingly. (disclaimer: presently employed by a SD sc…

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Re: South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game

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Post by aaomidi »

smcg wrote: post #15
cornell532 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where does all of the money go? New York City is spending nearly $30,000 per student this year.

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

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 :)

Re: South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game

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Post by selimthegrim »

rasz wrote: post #3

Idiocracy was a prophecy all along. Next years plan is to throw in a little bit of Running Man by equipping teachers with hockey sticks to beat the competition.

I'm pretty sure people were posting "Climbing for Dollars" on Twitter in response to this

Re: South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game

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Post by Buttons840 »

aaomidi wrote: post #18
smcg wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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 :)

Want to do some good with your coding skills? Build open source edu-tech.

Imagine questioning the district on why they're spending so much when an open source options is both cheaper and better.

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