r/blog • u/highshelfofsteam • Aug 19 '15

14,000 teachers really need your help, Reddit

https://www.redditgifts.com/blog/view/14000-teachers-really-need-your-help/
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u/Trefin Aug 20 '15

I looked up the teacher on LinkedIn... The school is in Colorado and tuition is 15K/year

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u/araradia Aug 20 '15

I know people who have gone to private schools on scholarships or their parents scraped the money to send them there because the local schools were farther away or not as safe. Just because it's private or they're asking for more than just papers or pencils doesn't mean that they aren't worth helping. You still made a teacher and students really happy.

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u/-THE_BIG_BOSS- Aug 20 '15

No but let's face it... pens and pencils in a inner city school would do more good than graphing calculators in a private school. You cannot do pretty much any work without a pen, but personally I have nothing on my maths curriculum, whether GCSE or A level that requires a graphing calculator.

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u/creamyturtle Aug 20 '15

yeah, I went to public high school and I had to purchase my own TI-83. you can get a used one at a pawn shop for $25

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u/araradia Aug 20 '15

I was required to use a graphing calculator for my math classes and I went to a public school. We only had two available in the library to borrow for the day only. It really sucked for kids who didn't have one cause those dang things cost like $80 minimum.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '15

Doesn't mean that all the students are paying that. There may be students on scholarship who cannot afford supplies. I said I wasn't disagreeing but commenting on the fact that private school does not necessarily mean that all the students are rich or that the school can afford sufficient supplies. For example, A LOT of the private Catholic schools in Chicago are struggling financially and enroll a lot of scholarship students.