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I am also not buying a microphone and speaker for my class and figuring out how to rig that up with a mask on-just stop. I'm done with the expectation that teachers sacrifice money, time, their health, basic necessities like bathroom breaks-it's enough already. We need to stop coming to the rescue and let people see what their taxes actually fund. Period.
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I can understand your frustration, but you know very well that it will be on you if the students can't hear you and thus fail to understand the lesson. Get a pop-star style mic that clips on your head, or the earbuds that have a mic in the cord.[/quote]
The solution isn't going to be me making more purchases. The buck stops here. Teachers need to take stand-the government needs to fund education. Not teachers.[/quote]

I hear your frustration but as a doctor, I purchased my own n95s at the beginning of this just like I routinely purchase supplies I need to do my job better (new stethoscope this year for example- around 280 dollars).  It’s a global pandemic. We all need to do our part, including teachers! [/quote]
No. Do you make $60,000 a year? That's the average teacher salary in the United States. Not starting salary-average, overall. The average physician salary is $313,000. I don't know why we don't expect doctors to buy medications for their patients, to perform procedures for free without billing, or to purchase food/supplies for low income patients. Why do we expect teachers, who make much less money than doctors, to do these things? Do you not care about your patients? I'm not going to be told to spend my comparatively low salary on necessary classroom supplies when doctors don't purchase their own surgical implements, scrubs, gowns, medical supplies, etc. They don't throw parties for their patients. They don't hang out at work in their off time cleaning the hospital and organizing records. 
My husband works in an emergency room. If you want to buy a fancy status stethoscope for YOUR personal use, that's on you. Teachers spend an average of $500 per year on their classroom, but I don't know anyone who spends that little. You would have to spend almost twice the cost of your stethoscope every year and then donate it to the hospital to come close to what we spend. We don't ask doctors to set up Donors Choose projects to beg for money for hospital supplies, either.[/quote]

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