It’s sad that teachers have to go begging for help to get classroom supplies or put their rooms up for adoption on national Internet sites, as reported in an Eagle article Sunday. What other professionals have to plead for office supplies — basic stuff like pencils and markers and colored paper — or hold frozen food and bake sales to get the resources they need?
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Schools should be funded better than they are today. The right-wing of this state’s legislature sure knows how to do the wrong thing. My guess is they’re afraid the kids will end up better educated, smarter and be able to see through the white-washed garbage that’s being spewed today. Gee, that would mean liberals would start getting elected.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies…..Woody Allen
Sorry, I just like that one.
I thought the lottery was supposed to take care of these problems.
Not a single dollar of the Kansas Lottery goes to schools.
I don’t know about this trivial things, such as school supplies. Don’t children bring their own? And what about all the sponsered school supply events from charitable groups and television stations every year? And if the child is poor, doesn’t have any school supplies, and doesn’t get a chance to get any from the school supply campaigns, they still will be ok. They usually pool in all the kids supplies to be shared amoung the others in the class. Redistribution!
It just seems if we have all these things going on for school supplies, what does it hurt to extend it to office supplies for the teachers. Just ask the rich and middle class parents to chip in more and ge tthe school supply raising campaigns to include office supplies for teachers.
I am not sure what is going on, but every year. Before the beginning of school, we see many teachers come in and buy basic supplies for the kids to use. Paying for them out of their own pocket. We have one who for the last six years has spent nearly three hundred dollars! Note book paper, pencils, rulers, ink pens, the list go on.
You see teachers WD? How do you know they are school teachers? Do they wear a badge, do they tell you? Do they say they are getting them for their students or for their own kids?
How do you know? Just an honest question bro! I can look around a Wal-Mart and I can’t spot a teacher out. I didn’t know they were ID badges or anything, but maybe they do.
Just a guess, but maybe WD knows they’re teachers because HE KNOWS THEM PERSONALLY.
Maybe the better question would be – what does the “top” do with all our tax dollars for schools? Where is Winston Brooks and his cronies in this picture? I’m sure the downtown offices have all the office supplies they need.
This just in from the religous right’s attempt to dominate the school board.This guy moved here from Idaho with disingenous motives. (liar)He said that he moved to Kansas because all he cares about are our kids.Is that why he’s doing the “cut and run”??
By Colleen Surridge
Parsons Sun
CANEY – Four days after losing the Aug. 1 primary election to Kansas State Board of Education Republican candidate Jana Shaver, Brad Patzer, R-Neodesha, resigned his teaching position at Caney Valley High School.
Caney Valley superintendent Danny Fulton said today, “He turned in his letter of resignation Friday, 12 days before school starts. His letter stated he had the opportunity to advance his career as head teacher at an alternative school in Idaho.”
Patzer had hoped to take the District 9 seat on the Kansas State Board of Education held by his ultra-conservative mother-in-law, Iris Van Meter, R-Thayer, and continue to represent constituents in the same ultra-conservative vein.
On Aug. 1, Shaver pulled in 58 percent of the votes, 13,038, against evolution opponent Patzer.
Patzer would not return calls to the Sun after his election loss, nor could he be reached for comment this morning.
The last-minute resignation of Patzer has left the school district in a position of trying to find a teacher certified to teach seventh- through 12th-grade math, and fill positions in the Student Support Program and another team position.
Fulton said the district is exploring alternative avenues to cover Patzer’s position before the start of school, Aug. 16, in order to continue providing students with quality education.
If a certified teacher cannot be found in the next seven days, Fulton said a substitute could be brought in.
“But that’s tough if you don’t have someone with experience in high school math,” he said.
Other alternatives include having other teachers take up the slack and paying them extra for covering the class, or changing the schedules of 50 to 60 students to place them in different math classes and altering teachers’ schedules to handle the change.
Even facing such a dilemma, Fulton said, “We’ll make it work. Kids are resilient and so are we.”
I know of alot of good, well qualified teachers that have stopped teaching because they are so fed up with the system. They are fed up with the politicians using them as their whipping boy whenever it is time to vote and they are tired of parents sending their unruly and arrogant little darlings to school, expecting the teacher to work miracles. Maybe we need to start at the top and weed out some of the unnecessary staff and then provide the best education for the kids in the classroom.
Why don’t we let area corporations purchase the naming rights to schools? Instead of naming schools after dead and forgotten city founders lets take a page from the arena debacle and sell the naming rights to our schools. The mascots could even incorporate their products. You could have the “Boeing Dreamliners” or the “Raytheon Hawkers”…
But then you could also end up with the “Jezebel G-Strings”
But seriously, the schools would pay an annual fee and promise to provide a certain dollar amount in improvements and supplies. They in term would have their name plastered on everything that came out of the school.
Instead of employees donating to organizations such as the United Way which shaves a portion of donations off the top the employees could donate directly to the school their company sponsors.
It’s time to think outside the box people because the way this program has been managed the past 50 years sure isn’t getting teh job done…
Budweiser Bums?Jack Daniels Drunks?I know, Hustler’s Whores!!Aw, never mind.
Todd! He never said he personally knew teachers. If he did, wouldn’t he claim it?
I actually think I busted him in a lie. Not surprising.
Teachers are given about $300 every year for their classrooms. Some teachers use that money for items the students can use and other purchase things to decorate their classrooms. Should teachers have to buy the supplies for their classrooms? No they should not. The schools could probably get a lot of classroom supplies if Winston, the school board and other would just cut their traveling down. They could also put the money spent on a full time lobbyist for classroom supplies.
Gosh I hate judging folks on a thread where I had not earlier weighed in. But I saw this one and can’t let it go.
Joe Williams: “I actually think I busted him in a lie. Not surprising.”
This is an accusation by Joe Williams that writerdog is a liar. He makes it in support of his earlier,
Oh hell this thread is a short one go look for yourself.
Hey Joe? Writerdog works with people buying school supplies. He posted that one in particular customer has been coming in for six years and spending 300 bucks.
Joe?
YOU alledge WD as a liar.
SO the customer he worked with all this time is a liar as well? What she has 24 kids of her own that need all the supplies she is purchasing? She hordes notebooks and pencils?
Todd and writerdog you have my sympathies having Joe Williams on your side. Gotta be embarrasing!
While the Kansas lottery doesn’t fund schools at this time (at least not K-12), it was sold to us in that way.
Also, why do “professionals” such as teachers feel they need to unionize? Just curious.
I moved to North Carolina last year. Earlier this year NC began its first state lottery and dubbed it an “Educational Lottery”. When my daughter and our friends enrolled their children in school, they found there were no school “fees” to pay. The list of supplies your child needs to purchase to start school is a little short list, too. It appears some supplies are provided. It certainly was a surprise after rounding up the supplies needed in Wichita and paying the enrollment fees, too.
SD, your spinning makes me dizzy.
Which is it? Do you hate public schools or do you hate teachers?
Or is it unions you hate?
All of the above? A trifecta of hate?
no wonder we cant understand you. So much hate, so little time to sort it out….
Thanks, Girl. Now I know what not to be curious of, so that I don’t hurt your tender sensabiluties.
Had to come back here and see if Joe Williams had proved yet that writerdog was a liar. YOU know, as he asserted upthread?
Nope.