The blog I posted on was titled " I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday For Some Copy Paper Today" Mrs. Lee is talking about how teachers, more than any other profession, spend their own money on their classrooms. She is concerned; she also wonders why. Mrs. Lee has been in the education field for 26 years, and she has been spending her own money for that length of time.
She talks throughout the post about whether or not this is right and why it is acceptable. She also shares towards the end that her husband encourages her NOT to pay out of her own pocket for items that should be provided already for her classroom. He says that "nobody buys the cow when they can get the milk for free". Mrs. Lee struggles with this.
I thought this post was interesting because it is what I will probably will be doing in my future. I shared with her that I, too, have been spending money in my preschool classroom for years. I shared that I would rather have my children have the items they need to help understand the concepts than learning nothing because I couldn't fork out a few bucks for the good of education.
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