Teacher here. I’m working my ass off to plan/remake my materials so that they can be done remotely when I just wanna be able to print it all out. On top of teaching online all day, I also have students in person 4 days a week. No defense for some states banning students from entering school., that shit should be illegal. Ours is online optional and 2day a week for in-person students until they relax our restrictions on 6ft (not possible with my 32 students per class).
With that being said, bussing costs are massive each year and they are way down due to covid, more than just the 20% from attending school 1 less day a week. School lunch waste (yeah waste... half gets thrown away thanks Obama’s) is way down since half our students are absent each day. Some of our budget goes towards hiring additional staff for our poor community and since we have smaller classes in person they saved that money by not hiring anyone. We are looking at a surplus this year at our school of 10-20k after buying a ton of new chromebooks for remote learning and this is just a small school of about 450 students. The big districts have to be saving millions. I’m all for refunding what’s not used, but i have already heard that we need to use it or lose it. Admin is fearful that returning money will impact their budgets the following year which obviously just encourages wasteful spending.
Keep paying the teachers. It’s a shitty argument to say they aren’t working because you have to be in the same room while your children listen to us on the computer. But damn it, if there is money leftover don’t throw it at the fucking vampire textbook monopolies and online retailers, send it back to the communities!
Teacher here. I’m working my ass off to plan/remake my materials so that they can be done remotely when I just wanna be able to print it all out. On top of teaching online all day, I also have students in person 4 days a week. No defense for some states banning students from entering school., that shit should be illegal. Ours is online optional and 2day a week for in-person students until they relax our restrictions on 6ft (not possible with my 32 students per class).
With that being said, bussing costs are massive each year and they are way down due to covid, more than just the 20% from attending school 1 less day a week. School lunch waste (yeah waste... half gets thrown away thanks Obama’s) is way down since half our students are absent each day. Some of our budget goes towards hiring additional staff for our poor community and since we have smaller classes in person they saved that money by not hiring anyone. We are looking at a surplus this year at our school of 10-20k after buying a ton of new chromebooks for remote learning and this is just a small school of about 450 students. The big districts have to be saving millions. I’m all for refunding what’s not used, but i have already heard that we need to use it or lose it. Admin is fearful that returning money will impact their budgets the following year which obviously just encourages wasteful spending.
Keep paying the teachers. It’s a shitty argument to say they aren’t working because you have to be in the same room while your children listen to us on the computer. But damn it, if there is money leftover don’t throw it at the fucking vampire textbook monopolies and online retailers, send it back to the communities!