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My kids' teachers have to either get us as parents to donate supplies (like paper, pencils, crayons, chalk - EVERYTHING) or they have to buy the supplies themselves. In an affluent school district like mine, parents donate what is needed, but I bet I spend over $100 on stuff for schools every year, and not all parents have the money to do that. Teachers don't make a lot as it is and I can't imagine why they're expected to pay for this stuff. When my parents were teaching (they've been retired for a long time) classroom supplies were provided by the school. Teachers take pay cuts in a lot of districts because the schools lack money, and they also have more work-related expenses than they used to.
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