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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciate your thoughts. We can certainly debate what teachers should or should not be purchasing and why, but the fact is that teachers in low-income schools often end up feeling obligated to purchase materials definitely affects their high attrition rate. My very low-income school (homeless center and EL newcomer center) has turned over its entire staff at least three times in the last six years. I've seen more teachers leave the profession in the last three years than in my previous 16 combined.  I am curious if anyone has seen any data on how many people are going into grad school in education these days compared to ten years ago and what kind of crisis that will be creating in schools in the coming decade.[/quote]

I taught in a low-income school and did spend a ton of my own money, but I didn't really mind (I was not buying school supplies, which were provided by my school, but rather things like clothes and food for children whose parents couldn't afford it).  I quit because of the horrendous stress and focus on test scores, the demeaning administrators, the clique-y teachers, and the fact that after a few years I realized that any positive change I made for students was done only by waging an uphill battle against everything stupid, incompetent, and nonsensical that was constantly coming downstream from FCPS's bloated bureaucracy and all the levels of govt above that.  [/quote]

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