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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The average pay for a teacher in MD or VA is over $70k. Not exactly poverty wages. [/quote]

Cool, cool, cool.  Then you won't mind donating a small % of your check to your job, right?  I mean, heck, it's hard for the federal government or wherever to pay for stuff too, so you won't mind kicking in a few hundred dollars each month, right?[/quote]

I mean, I am very pro-teacher. But just to be clear, I am a federal employee and I spend lots of my own money on my job. [/quote]

Like what? My government office has a supply room and we buy our own items if we don't like what they offer but the point is that they offer it. I've never had to buy supplies other than a specific notebook that I preferred but it's not like I'm buying binders for presentations, pencils for my office-mates, a bookshelf and books, a rug, etc...[/quote]

I'm a fed and I even managed to snag a free water bottle from the insurance fair on the first day.  I guess I paid for my office plant but that's totally voluntary.

What are you buying?[/quote]

I have bought my own noise cancelling headphones, and headphones for zoom meetings. They are not supplied.

I also use my own phone because my agency won't give non supervisors.a phone but expect me to use my own.

But it nothing like the supplies teachers go through year after year. [/quote]

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