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1 in 3 parents say they can't afford back-to-school shopping this year, survey says
(www.fox5ny.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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Great. More of my paycheck going to provide school supplies for my classroom.
Hey at least you get the whole summer off work. And you have a nice 9-5 job that never bleeds into your evenings or weekends. Basically a glorified babysitter.
(I'm totally kidding. Teachers are insanely overworked and underpaid.)
It's frustrating because of how much of a lie this is and how persistently it endures. A three month long furlough isn't a vacation. Teachers routinely do work during this period, as part timers in the service sector or as summer school instructors at diminished pay (or as contractors in careers that pay better than education). And that's not even considering the teacher training and prep work that happens before the first day of class.
People aren't this clueless by accident, either. You've got a deliberately malicious rumor mill media that's designed to perpetuate a myth any actual teacher could disabuse people of.
Got me in the first half...