I gave each kid--150 of them--a pencil. Something they can use.

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Anonymous wrote:I give out school supplies all year long so it's gifts for everyone all year.

Its only a gift if you are buying them. We donated a ton of supplies as do other parents so its not a gift from the teacher. However, I prefer nothing to stuff we'd toss.

I'm a teacher. Since September I've spent $1500 out of pocket on my classroom. My students can't afford lunch, let alone pencils.

Ouch! Where are you?

I typically spend $0 beyond what is reimbursed.

My team donated $1/student to a charity.

Why would you do that vs. taking care fo the students you have? Most teachers spend money.

We have to force the district to see how they need to adjust the budget. And that won’t happen if we keep enabling. So I don’t.

I always think the same thing. Why would the school provide paper if the teachers will pay out of pocket? It’s enabling, I agree, and I don’t spend my own $.

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Anonymous wrote:I give out school supplies all year long so it's gifts for everyone all year.

Its only a gift if you are buying them. We donated a ton of supplies as do other parents so its not a gift from the teacher. However, I prefer nothing to stuff we'd toss.

I'm a teacher. Since September I've spent $1500 out of pocket on my classroom. My students can't afford lunch, let alone pencils.

Ouch! Where are you?

I typically spend $0 beyond what is reimbursed.

My team donated $1/student to a charity.

Why would you do that vs. taking care fo the students you have? Most teachers spend money.

We have to force the district to see how they need to adjust the budget. And that won’t happen if we keep enabling. So I don’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I give out school supplies all year long so it's gifts for everyone all year.

Its only a gift if you are buying them. We donated a ton of supplies as do other parents so its not a gift from the teacher. However, I prefer nothing to stuff we'd toss.

I'm a teacher. Since September I've spent $1500 out of pocket on my classroom. My students can't afford lunch, let alone pencils.

Oh here we go with The Martyr Teacher.

I spend next to nothing out of pocket , anymore. Probably less than $20. I have my own expenses and my own family to take care of. There have been poor children since the beginning of time (including my own parents, who weren’t handed anything by the government and grew up to realize they didn’t want the natural consequences of that, so they worked damn hard for what they had.)

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Anonymous wrote:Well i have 150 of them so no lol

MS and HS kids are pretty pleased to get those cheap peppermint balls. They come 200 to a bucket for $5. I also used to buy the grab bags of mixed pencils at Oriental Trading.

HS kids don't want Christmas pencils cmon. I gave them a movie day and that was good for them.

I didn’t do Christmas pencils. If you buy the steeply discounted gross of misprints, they are often really funny and my high schoolers would argue over who got the most egregious ones. Like “Speling Bee Winner!”

LOL, that is awesome.

As a high school student, I would have found that to be a hilarious gift - I had no idea you could buy such a thing! Heck, I'd have bought a gross of them for my junior year teacher who was a stickler for grammar and spelling, and she'd have loved them.

I gave my middle schoolers candy canes. I have 125 students.

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Anonymous wrote:I give out school supplies all year long so it's gifts for everyone all year.

Its only a gift if you are buying them. We donated a ton of supplies as do other parents so its not a gift from the teacher. However, I prefer nothing to stuff we'd toss.

I'm a teacher. Since September I've spent $1500 out of pocket on my classroom. My students can't afford lunch, let alone pencils.

Ouch! Where are you?

I typically spend $0 beyond what is reimbursed.

My team donated $1/student to a charity.

Why would you do that vs. taking care fo the students you have? Most teachers spend money.

On what would you suggest we spend money? I think this is a good way to model generosity towards others in need.

Donate to teachers at another school who do not. Get some gifts/clothing for kids who will go without or limited holidays - food even. Our teachers claim they don't need anything but I think its the principal. They claim we don't need things like a clothing closet or food pantry when some of us tried to set one up and its pretty sad to see how some of the kids are dressed or go without when many of us have so many things we could donate when our kids outgrow/barely worn to help other kids at our school.

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Anonymous wrote:I give out school supplies all year long so it's gifts for everyone all year.

Its only a gift if you are buying them. We donated a ton of supplies as do other parents so its not a gift from the teacher. However, I prefer nothing to stuff we'd toss.

Of course I buy them. I work in a Title One school and only 1/2 or maybe a little more of my students bring in supplies so we run out. That's when I buy what they need.

PP here (12:13 and 08:51). I want to clarify that it’s not a refusal on my part to spend money. I typically don’t spend beyond what is reimbursed because I don’t have to.

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Anonymous wrote:I give out school supplies all year long so it's gifts for everyone all year.

Its only a gift if you are buying them. We donated a ton of supplies as do other parents so its not a gift from the teacher. However, I prefer nothing to stuff we'd toss.

I'm a teacher. Since September I've spent $1500 out of pocket on my classroom. My students can't afford lunch, let alone pencils.

Ouch! Where are you?

I typically spend $0 beyond what is reimbursed.

My team donated $1/student to a charity.

Why would you do that vs. taking care fo the students you have? Most teachers spend money.

On what would you suggest we spend money? I think this is a good way to model generosity towards others in need.

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Anonymous wrote:I give out school supplies all year long so it's gifts for everyone all year.

Its only a gift if you are buying them. We donated a ton of supplies as do other parents so its not a gift from the teacher. However, I prefer nothing to stuff we'd toss.

I'm a teacher. Since September I've spent $1500 out of pocket on my classroom. My students can't afford lunch, let alone pencils.

Ouch! Where are you?

I typically spend $0 beyond what is reimbursed.

My team donated $1/student to a charity.

Why would you do that vs. taking care fo the students you have? Most teachers spend money.

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Anonymous wrote:I give out school supplies all year long so it's gifts for everyone all year.

Its only a gift if you are buying them. We donated a ton of supplies as do other parents so its not a gift from the teacher. However, I prefer nothing to stuff we'd toss.

I'm a teacher. Since September I've spent $1500 out of pocket on my classroom. My students can't afford lunch, let alone pencils.

Ouch! Where are you?

I typically spend $0 beyond what is reimbursed.

My team donated $1/student to a charity.

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of such a thing. And it is giving. Not gifting. Giving.

This. All of this. But especially the gift/give part. Jesus, OP, you’re a teacher and can’t get this right?!