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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree 100%. It's completely ironic that the teachers in the "good" schools [b]are showered with gifts and the PTA pays for everything, while the teachers in the "bad" schools work a thousand times harder and without all the fanfare and recognition. [/b]

The most frustrating part for me is when I have a student who needs to go to screening and eventually testing because it's clear they have a learning disability after years (yes years) of being told you need to just provide more interventions, but even when you fight tooth and nail it doesn't happen. The parents don't even show up to the meetings most of the time. In my child's school 4 miles down the road the parents come with their private testing results and their advocates and the parents make sure their child gets services and accommodations. The playing field is certainly not level. [/quote]

Plus the teachers in the "bad" schools are paying for most of it out of their own pockets. The sign up geniuses for my kids' Halloween parties are insane. And it's all run by and funded by parent volunteers. That was completely foreign to me when I learned that after working in a focus school for 15 years. I'm meeting with my team tomorrow afternoon to plan our own classroom parties, and then we'll all contribute our own money to pay the team member who is doing the shopping for all 4 classes. We tried soliciting money and supplies from parents for a few years--some classes got literally nothing and others got a bag of chips and a box of cookies for the whole class. The kids look forward to these parties so much. If we want them to have the experience, then we are the ones who plan and subsidize.

My friend works at a "good" school in the same county as my school and when we compare stories you would swear we teach in completely different school systems, and not in schools a few miles away from each other. [/quote]

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