Did you know that our underpaid teachers, on average, spend $500 a year out of their own pockets on school supplies for kids???

And really, $200 for one kid?? I seriously doubt it cause I have a senior, 6th grader, 7th grader, and 1st!! I know the cost

nailed it. I learned real quick not to buy the cool stuff my daughter wanted after I found out it all goes into a class pile and is split up. So no more buying the nice pencils or binders for my kid when she won't get it.

Yep.

I worked in the school system for 12 and 1/2 years and I retired in February. Hope you are sitting down because I'm going to lay it on the line. The list for supplies given to the parents is a joke. The waste of $$$ in todays school system is unbelievable. It makes me so mad to see the amount of taxpayer $$$ thrown into a dumpster year after year. That's right, everything you bought went to a landfill. I have thrown away unopened boxes of new textbooks, pens, pencils, markers, glue, construction paper, and the list goes on into a dumpster at the end of each year for 12 and 1/2 years. Cafeteria tables (new), student desk, office furniture, and more has gone to auction and sold for pennies on the dollar. I have seen tens of thousands of dollars thrown away year after year. I get sick just writing this. The school system waste more money then you can imagine. I wish I could do something about it but it's going to take someone in Austin to step up to the plate and say enough is enough. I don't know what else to say. PIZZED OFF!!!

......drops mic!

well said. Arlington ISD just spent millions building an indoor practice facility for football at each of the high schools (6).

But sportsball is more important than education. I've always been dismayed by the amount of funding and focus athletics receive over academics. Not to mention the preferential treatment athletes get. I get down to the school board meetings I suppose.

I worked in the school system for 12 and 1/2 years and I retired in February. Hope you are sitting down because I'm going to lay it on the line. The list for supplies given to the parents is a joke. The waste of $$$ in todays school system is unbelievable. It makes me so mad to see the amount of taxpayer $$$ thrown into a dumpster year after year. That's right, everything you bought went to a landfill. I have thrown away unopened boxes of new textbooks, pens, pencils, markers, glue, construction paper, and the list goes on into a dumpster at the end of each year for 12 and 1/2 years. Cafeteria tables (new), student desk, office furniture, and more has gone to auction and sold for pennies on the dollar. I have seen tens of thousands of dollars thrown away year after year. I get sick just writing this. The school system waste more money then you can imagine. I wish I could do something about it but it's going to take someone in Austin to step up to the plate and say enough is enough. I don't know what else to say. PIZZED OFF!!!

Sorry, no sympathy from me.

Yes, the poor kids, and those who forget, and those who parents are to lazy....all get taken care of by the TEACHER. Not the school. The teacher is buying the supplies that the parents don't bring.

My wife is a teacher and we typically spend around $500 for supplies for her students every year. We added it up the other night and we are just under $1000 for this year. Its ridiculous, and no, there is no reimbursement from the school.

Sorry, no sympathy from me.

Yes, the poor kids, and those who forget, and those who parents are to lazy....all get taken care of by the TEACHER. Not the school. The teacher is buying the supplies that the parents don't bring.

My wife is a teacher and we typically spend around $500 for supplies for her students every year. We added it up the other night and we are just under $1000 for this year. Its ridiculous, and no, there is no reimbursement from the school.