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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have every reason to be upset OP, but your anger should be at the scammers.  We have IT security training, but certainly not on day 1.  You need to treat this as a learning experience.  [b]You need to explain to your kid that no real job would ever expect a new hire to use their own money for anything[/b].  You also need to teach them to look at the email address and that the left hand side of a web address is the important part.

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Lol. Tell that to all of the teachers who walk into completely empty classrooms and have to make them look decent within a few day's time. [/quote]

1. None of that is required; teachers choose to do that as a gift to their students.

2. None of that is giving anything to the company that any adult would want. They are giving stuff/experience to the kids.

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Teachers are required to do that because they get evaluated on classroom climate. If you literally put nothing up on your walls, no posters, no chart paper,  no books for students to read in a library area, no rug/carpet if you teach early elementary, no bookshelves, then a-hole administrators mark you down when you get evaluated and you risk not getting rehired. Admin claim they paid out of pocket for supplies/materials when they were new so mall new teachers should do the same. Schools get away with this because primarily women teach elementary school. [/quote]

I worked as a para in a 4th grade class with a male teacher who had almost nothing on the walls, basically just a few posters of athletes and a basketball hoop that students could shoot nerf balls into to get a homework pass.  He was one of the most popular teachers in the school with the students, their parents, the staff and admin.  Nobody cared about his minimalist classroom decorations.  No rugs or star charts or nooks either.[/quote]

We aren’t talking about teachers. Don’t hijack the discussion.[/quote]

Some of us are.  You do you.  [/quote]

Bringing in the argument that because teachers are expected to pay for their own supplies and decor, the OP's daughter should not have seen this as a red flag is ridiculous. You are hijacking the thread with off-topic comparisons and then snark about them.

It is not normal in most industries for employees to personally pay for things like gift cards for other staff members, and it is disingenuous to imply that it is, regardless of the f*cked up dynamics that exist in education (which you describe accurately and I actually agree with).[/quote]

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