I’ve also seen US teachers spending hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets to stock classrooms.

I spent a lot of time in European schools and I’ve never heard of teachers having to stock their own classrooms or fundraise for things like playgrounds, etc.

  • PancakeBrockEnglish
    111·
    10 months ago

    I do construction. My company is building a new $40,000,000 school in a town with a population of 143.

    • vortic@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      Wow, how many students are they expecting? I assume they’ll be pulling from a lot of the surrounding area.

      • PancakeBrockEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        That I really don’t know online it says 97 kids in k-12. It’s in a very rural area and the second phase of construction not in the original bid for the school is housing so when they hire more teachers they have a place to live.

        While I don’t think it’s bad they are getting a new school but going with the op it is kind of crazy when they can do that but my kids teachers ask us to supply the classroom with all kinds of stuff.