Donation request from teachers

[Anonymous]

If the leads are the problem, what then. They will try to make new teachers that point out waste fraud and abuse the schools turd in the punchbowl. Like- everything was fine until u got here. This is how they treat the people who volunteered thousands of hours and took out massive debt to be a teacher. I was so Stoopid to trust the education system in the US.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Remember last year during the budget freeze when MCPS schools ran out of paper? Our school hasn't had any paper available for staff to use for the past two weeks. I teach multiple classes and need 50 copies of each paper I copy. It looks like we are back to buying our own copy paper. Yes, there is a service within the county (Copy Plus) that can be used to make copies. However, they are now quoting a two-week (10 business days) timeframe to make copies. My teammates and I placed an order over two weeks ago, and we still haven't received our order.

Also, teachers receive a stipend to order materials from the MCPS warehouse. This year, we did not receive any pencils, glue sticks, or dry erase markers. We didn't receive pencils last year either. My students asked me for tissues last week. We ran out of all the tissues I provided. I can't afford to continue purchasing materials for the students to use daily.

We greatly appreciate any and all donations!

Advocate with the BOE. This isn't acceptable.

+1. You need to be telling your schools administration and parents to advocate to CO and BOE for supplies.

It is unacceptable that a billion dollar school district takes 2 weeks + to make copies for teachers via Copy Plus. There must be more efficient solutions possible (that don’t involve the teacher spending their own money.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Depends adult diapers would be thoughtful bc my teachers are not allowed/unable to go potty and if they had this product they could just go while teaching and change later.

Sorry for the off top, but why schools don’t have a very short breaks (5 mins) between lessons? It would allow so many benefits to students AND teachers based on this comment.

I teach middle school. We do have 5 minutes between classes for students to go from one classroom to another, but teachers are required to stand in hallways and monitor. If we really have to pee, we have to run to the one faculty bathroom and pray there's not a line. We also have to be back in our room when the bell rings because students can't be unsupervised in classrooms. Knowing all of this, most teachers just hold it until lunch or their planning period so they don't get in trouble.