How much do you spend out of pocket each year on classroom supplies?
by Edutopia Staff
May 23, 2008
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Adding insult to teachers' underpaid, undercelebrated status is the fact that so many educators shell out their own money in order to provide their students with all they deserve. That's certainly the case for our readers, the majority of whom said they're spending in the low to mid-hundreds every year. In other words, as several readers noted, they're spending "too much." Only a handful of readers said they spend nothing.
One reader responded simply, "No reasonable request is denied." This statement could mean (and we hope it does) that this reader's school earmarks enough money to cover teachers' reasonable requests. Far too often, though, the aforementioned philosophy belongs to the teachers themselves; if their classroom needs it, they buy it. And as one reader reminds us, people can donate more than just money: "I spend $700 give or take, plus my husband's and the parents' free time." The high-water mark among our readers, financially speaking, was $10,000.
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