Yesterday I received a call from another teacher asking for a favor. Could I let her have some paper? Since I have been rationing my paper all year and had just opened my last ream I was doubtful but asked how much she needed. “A ream,” she said. I could not help her. I asked if she had tried the office and supply chain. She said yes but they were using all their paper to print up sample test questions for the coming state tests.
Understand what is happening here. We don’t have paper for teaching but we have paper for review to prep for a test that is on its last year and will be ignored by everyone except administrators who are worried about their resumes. This is a pattern. Does anyone but me see a problem here?
To add to the insult we had received full color print-outs, prepared individually for each student of last years test results. We also got a worksheet to give them, on expensive colored paper, to fill out to show how they did and what they can do different to score better this year.
Yet we don’t have paper for an English teacher to instruct her students.
How about a tax increase. Maybe more money for education would be the solution.
homo unius libri
Teachers from SA would feel right at home in your system.
ReplyDeleteThat does not cheer me, nor does it surprise me.
DeleteGrace and peace.
Maybe they'll send you all a three-page color flier on the paper shortage.
ReplyDeleteDon't say that too loud. Those kind of suggestions find rich soil, sprout and reproduce.
DeleteGrace and peace.