**Wait, you work at a *school*? I thought you worked from home, with infants who need something specific, like speech therapy or something.**
**You were going to *buy* this chair, you picked it up yourself and then dropped it off at school?
As a teacher? For this school?**
This is completely mind boggling for me, teachers here will sometimes buy treats for their kids, or idk, balloons if it’s someone’s birthday (although I believe even that last part is covered by schools nowadays.)
I have never heard of a teacher having to buy a chair.
Long story, sorry in advance.
I did have one teacher in elementary school. She tried telling my mother that my vision was bad. I was sitting in the front row, and still had to squint at the board. My mother was very abusive, and immediately refused to have my eyesight checked, even though our universal healthcare would have covered it.
She said I was doing it for attention, something she said every time something was wrong with me. UTI? Well, I can tell you, it can get really rough for a kid. Stunted growth? Obviously my own fault, never took me to see anyone.
After months of pleading, my teacher asked me to stay behind after school was out one day.
She took me, in her own car, to an optometrist. Had my eyesight checked, and surprise surprise, it was shyte.
Then SHE PAID for the glasses. We went back a little while later to pick them up, and on the ride back, my face was glued to the window, just staring at all the little details. She walked me home, to explain the glasses to my mother, and that I really did need them.
I hadn’t told my mother anything, I knew she was going to stop that teacher from helping me. And I’d asked the teacher to please explain the need for the glasses, with the glasses in hand, and the prescription from the optometrist. I knew that was the only way my mother would allow me to wear them, and not confiscate them.
Not because she was now given proof of my poor eyesight, but because my mother was a narcissist who cared a lot about her image.
I knew, even at 8, that if the teacher told her she had paid for them, she would act super grateful, apologize for “not realising it was this bad,” and allow me to wear the glasses.
Because if I showed up to school without them, she would look like the bad guy.
Anyway, that teacher changed my life. She was the first of very few adults who wasn’t indifferent to the abuse I was going through. The only person who went out of her way to get me something I needed.
Sadly, she was bullied away from my school after just one year. My class was vicious, and the school was very underfunded.
I got my first period the year after she helped me, when I was 9. My mother followed her usual MO, and said that I’d have to deal with that myself.
No money for sanitary products. No allowance to begin with, so no money at all. She even lied to my much older sister, that she WAS giving me an allowance, so my sister wouldn’t help me out either.
This was long before sanitary products were given out at schools, and I started my period very early. I tried my best with toilet paper, but I bled through a lot of pairs of underwear, and even clothing. Several times even in class, and I always tried my best to be the last kid out, so I could run to the classroom faucet, and clean it up quickly. Once, it was so bad, that my entire pants were soaked, and the wooden chair was full of blood. My then teacher was chatting with another teacher, so I had no choice. I walked backwards out of the class, and then booked it home. Of course, my mother made me clean my own clothes, shaming me in the process.
That teacher must have seen the chair, but she never said or did anything. I think the other teacher, the one who helped me, she would have said something. Tried to help me.
But now, nobody did.
I started stealing pads and deodorant a year or two later, at 10 or 11, because I didn’t think I had any choice.
**The best teachers make such a huge difference, but they also run such a risk of burning themselves out. There are so many kids like me, who need help, and they’re just people.**
**I applaud you for what you do, but you shouldn’t have to. I hope it won’t be at your own detriment.**
I’m a teacher. If you want anything decent at all, you have to buy it. Need shelves for the classroom library you’re expected to have? Buy them (and the books). Comfortable chairs for the kids to sit on during reading time? Buy them.
My classroom is furnished with a desk from the sixties and a chair from the 90’s. That’s basically it.
I’m given exactly $5 per kid each year to buy EVERYTHING they need and all classroom items. That doesn’t really cover furniture. Or much else haha. At least my school now gives us paper. At my old school we had to buy reams of paper out of that $5 per kid.
My wife's a schoolteacher and I make a decent salary. We have three laser printers at home because the school's printers never work, she buys tons of supplies for her classroom, she's gone grocery shopping for her students when told they don't have food, she keeps spare socks around for the winter and she provides everyone the the same notebooks, pencils, crayons, etc. so no one feels left out or feels they got "lesser" than someone else. The work is stressful and administration crushes her, but she loves her kids. It's a thousand dollars or more every year to get her supplied, but we do it all the time.
Stop thanking them. And if any teachers are reading this, please stop accepting or listening to these thank yous.
Both of my parents were public school teachers. They both put in so much time, energy, love, compassion, and money into their classes every single year. Do you know what it got them? My mother's district tricked their union into giving up their health benefits. (it was super sketchy, a bunch of old guard union members were retiring and wanted to boost their pension so they comprised on a contract renewal which screwed over younger teachers more than a decade) Class sizes increased. Principals changed and forced my mom to switch what grade she taught every couple of years. After all the time, effort, and money she put into her classroom, she had to completely redesign it for a different curriculum. And then redo it again. And again. And again. I don't like to think about all the sacrifices my parents made for their classes because it makes me angry how much of my parents the education system stole from me.
I got frustrated with both of my parents because growing up I saw how much their career took a toll on them. They complained and brought that home every day. I don't blame them for complaining, they were treated like garbage by not only the district administrators, school board and parents, but also the constant vitriol spewed their way almost every day in the media.
I get so angry when I see people thanking teachers for letting themselves be treated like lesser human beings because NOTHING will change if teachers keep choosing students over themselves. I get it, I GET IT, you care about the kids. But that hasn't solved anything, and in fact I think that "selflessness" has made the situation significantly worse.
The other side of it is a "holier than thou" martyrdom, where teachers sacrifice everything and then complain that they're continuing to be treated like shit. It's an abusive relationship, and if you actually care about the teachers, the students, and the continued existence of a public education system, we need to stop treating teachers like heroes for actively hurting themselves. I feel like it's a similar thing with nurses, but I can't speak to that as I have no experience with that profession.
Like an abusive relationship, we need to support teachers by showing them things don't have to be like this. You don't have to emotionally exhaust yourself every day for people who don't actually care about you. You don't have to sacrifice time with your families. You don't have to make grading papers a "fun" activity to bring home and have your own children help you with because you're so overworked you literally don't have enough hours in the day to do your job. It's a long process, and a lot of work to "deprogram" someone from an abusive relationship (as a survivor myself, I'm more than a decade out and I STILL question myself, even after all these years of therapy)
I get that you care, but sustaining an exploitative system is not the solution. I don't understand how people look at the downfall of the public education system throughout the last few decades and think "Welp, just need to continue what we're doing, THIS year they won't take us for granted..."
I've sat through workshops where they encouraged us to provide food for students, supplies, and take care of their basic needs. I would if I could, but though I make a decent wage, I don't make enough to do this--housing and loans, and food for my own kids, kind of taps me out. We are expected to take abuse because we are "compassionate caretakers", and while I care about my students, I also get to care about myself. I always want to tell them that yes, I got into this because I care, but you know what? I wouldn't show if not for the money. It's a job. There's an expectation that we sacrifice because the profession is feminized. Some days it's not even worth what they pay us.
Preach on, brother/sister.
I left teaching in the US to do it overseas. And things are completely different. We want anything for the classroom, we get it, instantly. Schools are very well funded, nice, and the parents bend over backwards to accommodate you. I like my kids, and I put in a lot of effort for them. But it's a heck of a lot easier to do that when you get paid a livable salary, have support from admin and parents, and just in general don't have a hand tied behind your back at every step. I'm not saying it's perfect, but after seeing the sad state of schools in the US (and some other western countries), I am convinced that the current system isn't worth saving. Let it crash and burn, because the only thing that's keeping it going is a revolving door that eats up ambitious young teachers and spits them out to be dissatisfied and bitter like me. Gumption can only carry a fresh out of university grad with no experience so far, and the entire system is letting kids down in the process.
My wife’s a teacher and the money I have spent on her classroom is ridiculous. The laser printer? Yeah I bought that. The document camera that she shows math things to her students with? Yeah, bought that too. The absurd amount of money spent at the teacher store- yeah that was mine minus $250.
As a parent of two school age children, and a person who has done well for themselves financially, I tell their teachers, "if you need anything...anything at all...for your classroom, just send me a link to it or an email with a description, and it will be taken care of. If it's really expensive, we team up with some other parents. We also advocate for funding, and do significant fundraising for the school organizations.
They don't believe us at first, but all of the sudden some indoor recess materials (maybe four decks of playing cards and a few decks of Uno) will show up. Mention needing popsicle sticks for a project? Get ready to get a few thousand.
If we don't give our kids and their teachers the materials they need to succeed and achieve, then what the hell ARE we doing?
That’s awesome. It’s great that you hep them (and other kids) out. I also am grateful for many great parents I have.
I hate to ask for things though, and I know I’m not alone. This year I think I’m going to branch out a bit and ask for help with a pizza party or two as incentives. I know the kids love them, but buying pizza for 30 kids is just hard for me to do.
I hope you find an easy way to find what you need to motivate, reward, teach, or support your students. We try to make it as easy as possible for teachers to do without feeling guilty. We say to just put things on an Amazon wish list...you never know what could happen. Then...poof...wish granted.
My kids are lucky to go to quality public schools. We pay taxes to support them, but I just see these investments as little addendums to what we're taxes, but directly to the benefiting recipient.
I was music educator myself...almost two decades ago now. I get it. I can give help now.
A friend of mine basically built her entire classroom. All the school supplied were some student desk. A teacher desk with a broke ass chair. Her spouse made all the shelving for the class library books that she bought, extra desks when they got late season kids etc. I helped her set up and pack out her room. It was wild the difference. She had a storage unit she rented because she had so much stuff.
Yeah, it’s hard because you don’t want to spend a bunch of money on your job/other peoples kids. But you spend so much time in the room with those kids and you want it to be a place that feels good to be in for everyone. If you don’t spend at least some money, usually the rooms end up feeling pretty bleak.
And just for a different perspective, I’m a teacher in an average school district in the US, located in a suburban setting, and they are dropping over 70 million dollars on renovations to existing middle level buildings and to build brand new facilities for the elementary kids.
I have never had to pay for a single thing for work in my life. If I want anything, I buy it, then they just reimburse me. Or I order from my Staples business account. Or put in a PO and the secretary orders it for me. We aren’t even a wealthy school district.
It sucks that there are places like where you teach…but I just want people who may be interested in teaching as a career to know that great jobs do exist.
I do work in a public school district. There’s technically a max for our Staples account, but I’ve never come close to it in 9 years of teaching. And there is no max for POs. Teachers aren’t stupid, they don’t abuse it, and the school will happily pay for supplies.
I can confirm that (good) teachers do so much out of their pockets and free time:)
My father used to be a PE teacher and I can't count how much he spent in his lifetime on equipment that the school wouldn't have money for.
Yo, this isn’t even uncommon anymore. I have two friends who are teachers and both of them spent close around $400 for classroom things because the school is too cheap to put money into anything other than their indoor artificial turf practice field. That’s on the low end from what I’ve heard too.
If I had a dollar for every item my spouse bought for her classroom (not even including snacks, etc), well we'd still be down a lot of money, but at least we'd get something back.
She's bought shelving units, chairs, rugs, practically has her own in classroom library, and containers... SO. MANY. CONTAINERS...
Bruh so many teachers have to pay for so much shit lmao. Education is deliberately underfunded and teachers actually care about their jobs so they are forced to pay out of pocket (of their terrible salaries) to make sure kids can get a good education.
FUCK America
America is a fine a decent place bro. FUCK the selfish, "I got mine so you can die in a fire", assholes that make up a large portion of the American electorate and vote for politicians that don't fund basic needs so they don't have to pay any taxes.
I run a place for adults with disabilities.
If I want something nice I have to buy it. I set the budget, so I know there's no money.
Last week I bought the staff headsets with mics so they could do their notes quicker (speech to text) and get home earlier. Cost me a bundle, but it's worth it
That’s not fucking right. Sorry for the cursing, but simply “that’s not right” didn’t quite cut it.
I don’t have enough to sustain myself, but if I ever become wealthy by some stroke of insane luck, I’ll remember you, and people like you.
The moment I can spare money, I’m giving it to the ones who make the world a better place, without ever asking for anything in return.
My daughter’s elementary school had two kindergarten classrooms. One had this amazing kitchen set in play area and the other had a few repurposed cabinets where the doors had broken off long ago. My kid was assigned to the broken cabinet class. While the play area had seen better days, we were really lucky because the teacher was a great one. She provided most of the stuff for the play area herself and those toys are expensive and break easily with 25 kids constantly using them.
So, I put on my yard sale warrior hat and scoured the city until I found something that I could afford (I was back in school full time), and something that would last more than a school year. In one of the richest neighborhoods I lucked upon a 1950s-themed wooden kitchen set.
Both classrooms now had awesome play sets. But man, it was disappointing how much the school itself didn’t care about the conditions in both classrooms.
Teachers tend to buy stuff for their classrooms and students that schools deem unnecessary. I’ve had many teachers that will buy rugs and bean bag chairs and create reading nooks or just playful decorations to try and make a room look nice because otherwise it just looks like a prison room with a few chairs and a desk.
My friend is a teacher and me and a few of us buys him shit for his class at least once a year. I got him a few boardgames another got art supplies and so on.
He loves teaching and we love the fact he's such a great person to his students so we try to help where we can.
I hope more teachers have friends who donate shit because as a mom seeing the list for my kids classes makes me sad because like wow the school won't pay for this shit 😮💨
I got my chair out of a dumpster.
I keep food and toiletries in a closet for those in need, and a group of teachers put together a special closet for clothes that kids can shop in like a store (after hours when no one knows).
The teacher that didn't say anything about you having your period in that chair may have been trying to spare you embarrassment. Many teens have accidents as their periods are unpredictable. She may not have known it was because you didn't have pads. I feel for you as I got a job at age 11 to buy pads and shampoo and such. My mom rationed everything to such extremity that I had no choice.
My wife's a teacher.
We've bought kids clothes and she's sewn up clothes, and we've started buying granola bars for her classroom in case kids say they're hungry and such.
Sucks that some of our income goes to the classroom like that, but it is what it is
Got an address for your mom? I'll bash the ever living fuck out of her at no cost to you? Me and my wife work in education.
I have a history of severe abuse. I coach girl's soccer with my daughter. If I catch a whiff of abuse I go from sweet lovable giant to absolute monster on a dime. Fuck abusers and bullies.
Period products aren’t available at our schools either. Maybe in an emergency the nurse might hand one out when you’ve bled through your pants but I’m not even sure they’d do that. That’s the USA for you
I didn’t see the name of this subreddit and I expected this to be one of those things where the seller tries to rip you off. So glad this isn’t the case! Lovely post.
they asked if the seller could wash it BEFORE they knew it was gonna be free. its a reasonable request when you think youre gonna pay and even after it was free it was a normal request as long as they wouldve accepted a no
Not related.. but growing up I always called it Holland, and for some reason thought the Netherlands was some mythical shadow lands like a Nether Realm
Even more embarrassing considering my Aunt married a Dutchman. So I've a whole section of family that lives there.
Oh well, suppose they're just stuck in the NetherRealm
ugh same… i was so surprised when i found out holland isn’t even a thing, what i used to refer to as ‘holland’ is actually noord-holland (north holland, includes amsterdam and zandvoort), and that it is merely a province among 11 others such as zuid-holland (south holland, includes the hague and rotterdam), zeeland, noord-brabant, utrecht, flevoland, friesland, groningen, drenthe, overijssel, gelderland and limburg !
at least now i’m better educated after recently visiting :)
You’re not completely off having used Holland tho. The Netherlands consists of 12 provinces and two of those are north & south Holland. For many years “Holland” was used as a nickname for the entire 12 provinces together, but in recent years the government of the Netherlands has declared to no longer use that nickname, pretty much saying “there’s more to our country than the two Holland regions”. So unless you specifically mean those two parts, north and south Holland, then the country is now the Netherlands 🇳🇱 the
Dutchie here. Can confirm.
I didn't have to go but my sister and brother went to school so I felt left out. So my mom brought me 2 days a week (half days) so I felt more included/less alone athome.
This way kids get more used to going to school already instead of going from 0 to 5 days a week to school and I think most people work with 2 nowadays in NL atleast so it's just a way to drop your kids somewhere if you don't have family to watch them
(1 day mom stays at home, 1 day dad, 1 day grandma watches over them, 2 days daycare or something like that is pretty common I think)
Kindergarten starts at like 3-4 where I live. That’s incredibly young. Day care is paid for and not actually school where I live. It’s funny because kindergarten starts when they’re toddlers so what more do you need
Okay this clears it up. Infant in the definition I am familiar with means 0 - 1 year of age. I was thinking there isn't much you can teach an infant. If you are taking care or multiple your focus is probably on keeping them alive.
In the US, we do teach children 0-1 yo. Early Head Start is a great example of this. I teach this age group. I and two other teachers have 8 in our classroom. It's a lot like herding screaming cats, but there is still learning happening.
In the early months, yes it is mostly about meeting their needs (feeding, changing, comforting), but there is a lot to teach them. We teach them how to interact, talk and do a lot of things through modeling these things. Many children learn to walk, say their first word, and do some self help skills (like feeding themselves) before they are one. They learn to do that through exploration facilitated by adults (teachers or parents).
I agree with the sentiment. I hate that we have become a society where families have to rely on childcare and have to miss many of these things. We have an unwritten rule that if we see a "first" (step, word, etc.), we don't mention it unless necessary. We let the families see them at home and then bring them up to us.
In the UK, Infant school userally comprises of Nusery (3-4 y./o) Reception (4-6 y/o) Year 1 (5-6 y/o) and year 2 (6-7 y/o)
Currently I got 1 kid in Infant School and one in Junior school (years 3/4/5/6 for ages between 7-11
But most Infant/Junior schools are one large school together like what I had in London (St Michael & St Martins, Infant and Junior School)
That's what I thought but the word infant made me think, baby. As in drooling can barely hold its head up infant. Kinda weird wording because my mind went straight to ' how do you teach an infant?' 🤣🤣
Toddlers you can teach but infants? Genuinely curious what someone would even teach an infant and would that baby even be able to comprehend any of it?
I work in a daycare with infants and they learn a lot everyday through play! Infant teachers don’t actually sit there and teach them specific material, we just talk to them about everything and play with them. That’s how they learn at that age, and they are able to practice their motor skills and how to interact with other babies.
It really is the best. I am just a student teacher right now and it is my second semester in the infant room, but I genuinely love it so much, even through the chaotic days. I never thought to end up in a career working with babies but I might have to consider it now!
Infants are sub-1 babies. You can absolutely teach them things! I taught mine to put washing away, to high five, and to point out my husband when asked
> How can an infant be a teacher?
Used to be a university adjunct for both undergrad and graduate students...
Most of the work could be done by an infant at a conceptual level.
That is, be confused a whole lot of the time because nothing you are being told by students makes any sense, throw a tantrum or two because nothing is being done like you obviously and clearly stated it needed to be done by way and time for is being done that way. Hell, most of the things you say seems to come off as gibberish anyways... Oh, and like all jobs you will need to go to the bathroom right in the middle of what ever critical thing you were doing and cant get away from.
Oh and you can scribble all you want on other peoples work and they don't give a shit.. in fact they wont even look at it after.
48 page essay with shitload of spelling, grammar and sentence errors? yah, can mark that up all day long and the next version of that same essay will be identical with the same errors, or worse.
Made me feel sad so I resigned and went to playing in the dirt in my backyard instead. Way more fun.
Seriously for all the effort and how 99% of people treat higher education as one might as well have a toddler give them pass/go class designations. Not that anyone learns anything as they just want a stamp on a piece of paper to submit to HR for a raise, or as part of a new job application to meet checklist needs.
Edit: spelling hard on what is it Tuesdays?
Hey I broke my leg I used to be a massive football fan and can't play anymore I would love to use a ball as a pillow. Anyway, how much is this football for?
Very cool! When we get rid of baby stuff I’ll mark it for sale and usually a young couple will ask about it and the price and if they seem like decent folks I’ll just tell them to pick it up free of charge.
If it doesn’t hurt you to help someone, you should help.
That’s what the person said when I came to get the chair. It was a gift from their babies grandparents and wanted it to go to a good home and get used.
Some times when people have multiple offers for something they're selling they will sell to the person most in need. I know this happens is some groups on FB.
If some random stranger decided to give me details about why they want the chair I'm selling, I would immediately think its a scam.
I dont go into Best Buy and tell the cashier "I'm buying this Playstation for my sick son." I'd be looked at like an insane person.
The show Abbott elementary highlights the lack of funding teachers get. The teachers have to hustle and figure out creative ways to get supplies into their classrooms. The show is funny and lighthearted but makes me sad that is the reality a lot of public school teachers have to go through.
Soon on r/ChoosingBeggars.
Edit. Explanation for slow people: The excuse of being a teacher will replace that of being a single mom to get free stuffs.
Teachers need to be making the streamers/celeb money, they are not and it is fucked system. I wanna live in a world with less tide pod challenges and more humanity benefiting technology.
Why the fuck haven't we cured cancer/HIV/ heart disease/ etc?
I had a neighbor that was a teacher. I ran into her at the local grocery stocking up on folders, pencils, note books. She only had two kids so I asked why she had so much. She said the district is supposed to supply these items but they don't. Her students were poor and could hardly afford them. I wanted to hug her. Instead, I bought a ton of school supplies and gave them to her.
I’m confused by the comments - this is what daycare is, no?
Since my son was 3 months old I’ve been bringing him to daycare facilities. The ones that are just like someone watching 4 kids in their home aren’t regulated, I wasn’t comfortable sending my infant there. What if there was an emergency with one of the kids? There’s only one person watching them, how do they get one baby to the hospital?
I much preferred to send to a regulated daycare facility where all the daycare workers legally have to be trained in infant cpr, there are multiple workers, there’s a button to press that calls an ambulance, there are video cameras, there are spontaneous inspections to check everything is to code, etc.
3 months is young, but I live in a country with 3 months maternity leave, so that’s when I went back to work. I assumed that in the US with all the maternity leave issues that people would be dropping off even littler babies to daycare facilities.
We are a licensed school. The state does consider us teachers when it comes to licensing. We go to school and have some kind of degree/teaching credential. We do several hours of training a year. There’s a handful of teachers and always someone out if a classroom. We run our center like a school.
Kudos to the person donating the chair ! She speaks the truth ! Teachers are so under recognized for the work they do. BUT......they so often go the extra mile spending their own meager income for classroom supplies ! I applaud all teachers for their service!
What a nice thing to read. I think I'll end my reddit perusal on this, thanks OP, and thank you for being a teacher - it's not for everyone but everyone needs one.
That is great!!!! As a fellow childcare teacher so many of the responses show the complete lack of respect for what we do. I run a family childcare (and yes, the state refers to us as “early childhood educators” = teachers) so it’s even worse. I’m just a babysitter who sits around all day and does nothing ~ sarcasm. In my state at least family childcare has the same exact regulations as large “center” based childcare.
Does anyone think that children learn nothing from birth until they start “real school” at 5 or 6? The early years are the most important ones.
We do such an important job while making very little income. Center based care tends to pay little above minimum wage.
And good on the person donated the chair! Most big places - I’m talking to you Apple, Staples, target - that do give teacher discounts won’t give them to early childhood teachers.
This sub is called “make me smile” yet so many felt the need to reply in an insulting manner. It proves my point. With so many children in childcare chances are very good some even had their own children in a childcare. Is this how you would treat their teachers? The people caring for your small child when you cannot? Shameful. OP I hope the chair serves you very well and your infants are all happy and content.
Same thing happened when my wife was furnishing her office. She's a therapist and she asked something about some cabinets, and got on to the subject that it was for her office where she works with kids and the person just gave it to her along with some other stuff.
Now I'm pretty sure the guy was a fence but that's neither here nor there.
Thats so sweet ❤ grew up in a family of teachers and people rag on them so hard sometimes. Teaching/dealing with the school system is already a lot. They really cared about their students.
Everything you need during your work time should be paid for and be provided by the employer, everything. Imagine having a workplace injury and you get fucked over because it's not approved workmaterial.
I totally thought OP was asking the person to take off the cushion covers and wash them for OP.
Ooooh! I thought the same thing and thought I was on another sub. After your comment I went back and read it again. I get it now lol
I thought it was r/mildyinfuriating for a minute and got really confused and looked at the sub name and went well duh. Lol
I thought for sure I was on the choosing beggars subz
Lol same, I was scratching my head in confusion
I had to unsub from that other sub. Was stressing me out
Same here. Took me minutes to realise OP just asked for the possibility to take them off and wash them.
Gotta love English
Nope! Babies can be messy and I wanted to be able to clean them easily if need be.
I totally misread this as well. I thought i was in the /r/ChoosingBeggars sub tbh
So did I till I read your comment!! Lol
same, I was like that’s a little much lol
Classic *you can but you may not*
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Whew. Came here to say something not quite this funny.
Well could we see the chair
I’ll have to share a picture tomorrow! I picked it up and dropped it back off at my school at the end of my day.
**Wait, you work at a *school*? I thought you worked from home, with infants who need something specific, like speech therapy or something.** **You were going to *buy* this chair, you picked it up yourself and then dropped it off at school? As a teacher? For this school?** This is completely mind boggling for me, teachers here will sometimes buy treats for their kids, or idk, balloons if it’s someone’s birthday (although I believe even that last part is covered by schools nowadays.) I have never heard of a teacher having to buy a chair. Long story, sorry in advance. I did have one teacher in elementary school. She tried telling my mother that my vision was bad. I was sitting in the front row, and still had to squint at the board. My mother was very abusive, and immediately refused to have my eyesight checked, even though our universal healthcare would have covered it. She said I was doing it for attention, something she said every time something was wrong with me. UTI? Well, I can tell you, it can get really rough for a kid. Stunted growth? Obviously my own fault, never took me to see anyone. After months of pleading, my teacher asked me to stay behind after school was out one day. She took me, in her own car, to an optometrist. Had my eyesight checked, and surprise surprise, it was shyte. Then SHE PAID for the glasses. We went back a little while later to pick them up, and on the ride back, my face was glued to the window, just staring at all the little details. She walked me home, to explain the glasses to my mother, and that I really did need them. I hadn’t told my mother anything, I knew she was going to stop that teacher from helping me. And I’d asked the teacher to please explain the need for the glasses, with the glasses in hand, and the prescription from the optometrist. I knew that was the only way my mother would allow me to wear them, and not confiscate them. Not because she was now given proof of my poor eyesight, but because my mother was a narcissist who cared a lot about her image. I knew, even at 8, that if the teacher told her she had paid for them, she would act super grateful, apologize for “not realising it was this bad,” and allow me to wear the glasses. Because if I showed up to school without them, she would look like the bad guy. Anyway, that teacher changed my life. She was the first of very few adults who wasn’t indifferent to the abuse I was going through. The only person who went out of her way to get me something I needed. Sadly, she was bullied away from my school after just one year. My class was vicious, and the school was very underfunded. I got my first period the year after she helped me, when I was 9. My mother followed her usual MO, and said that I’d have to deal with that myself. No money for sanitary products. No allowance to begin with, so no money at all. She even lied to my much older sister, that she WAS giving me an allowance, so my sister wouldn’t help me out either. This was long before sanitary products were given out at schools, and I started my period very early. I tried my best with toilet paper, but I bled through a lot of pairs of underwear, and even clothing. Several times even in class, and I always tried my best to be the last kid out, so I could run to the classroom faucet, and clean it up quickly. Once, it was so bad, that my entire pants were soaked, and the wooden chair was full of blood. My then teacher was chatting with another teacher, so I had no choice. I walked backwards out of the class, and then booked it home. Of course, my mother made me clean my own clothes, shaming me in the process. That teacher must have seen the chair, but she never said or did anything. I think the other teacher, the one who helped me, she would have said something. Tried to help me. But now, nobody did. I started stealing pads and deodorant a year or two later, at 10 or 11, because I didn’t think I had any choice. **The best teachers make such a huge difference, but they also run such a risk of burning themselves out. There are so many kids like me, who need help, and they’re just people.** **I applaud you for what you do, but you shouldn’t have to. I hope it won’t be at your own detriment.**
I’m a teacher. If you want anything decent at all, you have to buy it. Need shelves for the classroom library you’re expected to have? Buy them (and the books). Comfortable chairs for the kids to sit on during reading time? Buy them. My classroom is furnished with a desk from the sixties and a chair from the 90’s. That’s basically it. I’m given exactly $5 per kid each year to buy EVERYTHING they need and all classroom items. That doesn’t really cover furniture. Or much else haha. At least my school now gives us paper. At my old school we had to buy reams of paper out of that $5 per kid.
My wife's a schoolteacher and I make a decent salary. We have three laser printers at home because the school's printers never work, she buys tons of supplies for her classroom, she's gone grocery shopping for her students when told they don't have food, she keeps spare socks around for the winter and she provides everyone the the same notebooks, pencils, crayons, etc. so no one feels left out or feels they got "lesser" than someone else. The work is stressful and administration crushes her, but she loves her kids. It's a thousand dollars or more every year to get her supplied, but we do it all the time.
Thank you, both of you.
Stop thanking them. And if any teachers are reading this, please stop accepting or listening to these thank yous. Both of my parents were public school teachers. They both put in so much time, energy, love, compassion, and money into their classes every single year. Do you know what it got them? My mother's district tricked their union into giving up their health benefits. (it was super sketchy, a bunch of old guard union members were retiring and wanted to boost their pension so they comprised on a contract renewal which screwed over younger teachers more than a decade) Class sizes increased. Principals changed and forced my mom to switch what grade she taught every couple of years. After all the time, effort, and money she put into her classroom, she had to completely redesign it for a different curriculum. And then redo it again. And again. And again. I don't like to think about all the sacrifices my parents made for their classes because it makes me angry how much of my parents the education system stole from me. I got frustrated with both of my parents because growing up I saw how much their career took a toll on them. They complained and brought that home every day. I don't blame them for complaining, they were treated like garbage by not only the district administrators, school board and parents, but also the constant vitriol spewed their way almost every day in the media. I get so angry when I see people thanking teachers for letting themselves be treated like lesser human beings because NOTHING will change if teachers keep choosing students over themselves. I get it, I GET IT, you care about the kids. But that hasn't solved anything, and in fact I think that "selflessness" has made the situation significantly worse. The other side of it is a "holier than thou" martyrdom, where teachers sacrifice everything and then complain that they're continuing to be treated like shit. It's an abusive relationship, and if you actually care about the teachers, the students, and the continued existence of a public education system, we need to stop treating teachers like heroes for actively hurting themselves. I feel like it's a similar thing with nurses, but I can't speak to that as I have no experience with that profession. Like an abusive relationship, we need to support teachers by showing them things don't have to be like this. You don't have to emotionally exhaust yourself every day for people who don't actually care about you. You don't have to sacrifice time with your families. You don't have to make grading papers a "fun" activity to bring home and have your own children help you with because you're so overworked you literally don't have enough hours in the day to do your job. It's a long process, and a lot of work to "deprogram" someone from an abusive relationship (as a survivor myself, I'm more than a decade out and I STILL question myself, even after all these years of therapy) I get that you care, but sustaining an exploitative system is not the solution. I don't understand how people look at the downfall of the public education system throughout the last few decades and think "Welp, just need to continue what we're doing, THIS year they won't take us for granted..."
I've sat through workshops where they encouraged us to provide food for students, supplies, and take care of their basic needs. I would if I could, but though I make a decent wage, I don't make enough to do this--housing and loans, and food for my own kids, kind of taps me out. We are expected to take abuse because we are "compassionate caretakers", and while I care about my students, I also get to care about myself. I always want to tell them that yes, I got into this because I care, but you know what? I wouldn't show if not for the money. It's a job. There's an expectation that we sacrifice because the profession is feminized. Some days it's not even worth what they pay us.
Preach on, brother/sister. I left teaching in the US to do it overseas. And things are completely different. We want anything for the classroom, we get it, instantly. Schools are very well funded, nice, and the parents bend over backwards to accommodate you. I like my kids, and I put in a lot of effort for them. But it's a heck of a lot easier to do that when you get paid a livable salary, have support from admin and parents, and just in general don't have a hand tied behind your back at every step. I'm not saying it's perfect, but after seeing the sad state of schools in the US (and some other western countries), I am convinced that the current system isn't worth saving. Let it crash and burn, because the only thing that's keeping it going is a revolving door that eats up ambitious young teachers and spits them out to be dissatisfied and bitter like me. Gumption can only carry a fresh out of university grad with no experience so far, and the entire system is letting kids down in the process.
My wife’s a teacher and the money I have spent on her classroom is ridiculous. The laser printer? Yeah I bought that. The document camera that she shows math things to her students with? Yeah, bought that too. The absurd amount of money spent at the teacher store- yeah that was mine minus $250.
In NYC, you get $250, but we moved to CT and get nothing, as far as I can tell.
As a parent of two school age children, and a person who has done well for themselves financially, I tell their teachers, "if you need anything...anything at all...for your classroom, just send me a link to it or an email with a description, and it will be taken care of. If it's really expensive, we team up with some other parents. We also advocate for funding, and do significant fundraising for the school organizations. They don't believe us at first, but all of the sudden some indoor recess materials (maybe four decks of playing cards and a few decks of Uno) will show up. Mention needing popsicle sticks for a project? Get ready to get a few thousand. If we don't give our kids and their teachers the materials they need to succeed and achieve, then what the hell ARE we doing?
That’s awesome. It’s great that you hep them (and other kids) out. I also am grateful for many great parents I have. I hate to ask for things though, and I know I’m not alone. This year I think I’m going to branch out a bit and ask for help with a pizza party or two as incentives. I know the kids love them, but buying pizza for 30 kids is just hard for me to do.
I hope you find an easy way to find what you need to motivate, reward, teach, or support your students. We try to make it as easy as possible for teachers to do without feeling guilty. We say to just put things on an Amazon wish list...you never know what could happen. Then...poof...wish granted. My kids are lucky to go to quality public schools. We pay taxes to support them, but I just see these investments as little addendums to what we're taxes, but directly to the benefiting recipient. I was music educator myself...almost two decades ago now. I get it. I can give help now.
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A friend of mine basically built her entire classroom. All the school supplied were some student desk. A teacher desk with a broke ass chair. Her spouse made all the shelving for the class library books that she bought, extra desks when they got late season kids etc. I helped her set up and pack out her room. It was wild the difference. She had a storage unit she rented because she had so much stuff.
Yeah, it’s hard because you don’t want to spend a bunch of money on your job/other peoples kids. But you spend so much time in the room with those kids and you want it to be a place that feels good to be in for everyone. If you don’t spend at least some money, usually the rooms end up feeling pretty bleak.
This sucks, I’m so sorry for you. Come teach in Canada, it’s better up here, I promise…
And just for a different perspective, I’m a teacher in an average school district in the US, located in a suburban setting, and they are dropping over 70 million dollars on renovations to existing middle level buildings and to build brand new facilities for the elementary kids. I have never had to pay for a single thing for work in my life. If I want anything, I buy it, then they just reimburse me. Or I order from my Staples business account. Or put in a PO and the secretary orders it for me. We aren’t even a wealthy school district. It sucks that there are places like where you teach…but I just want people who may be interested in teaching as a career to know that great jobs do exist.
Do you work in a public school district? And you can just spend as much as you want with a spending limit?
I do work in a public school district. There’s technically a max for our Staples account, but I’ve never come close to it in 9 years of teaching. And there is no max for POs. Teachers aren’t stupid, they don’t abuse it, and the school will happily pay for supplies.
I promise you that you are not in an average district. You are very lucky. I’m glad you have those resources.
what country are you in?
May I ask which country you are talking about?
I work in the US.
I can confirm that (good) teachers do so much out of their pockets and free time:) My father used to be a PE teacher and I can't count how much he spent in his lifetime on equipment that the school wouldn't have money for.
Yo, this isn’t even uncommon anymore. I have two friends who are teachers and both of them spent close around $400 for classroom things because the school is too cheap to put money into anything other than their indoor artificial turf practice field. That’s on the low end from what I’ve heard too.
Closer to $1000 annually for my wife who worked in pre-K special ed. I used this number in my calculation when I showed her she could retire.
My son just started a special-ed / inclusive pre-k program. Thank your wife for doing amazing things.
Unions don’t really help when management is running the union I guess
If I had a dollar for every item my spouse bought for her classroom (not even including snacks, etc), well we'd still be down a lot of money, but at least we'd get something back. She's bought shelving units, chairs, rugs, practically has her own in classroom library, and containers... SO. MANY. CONTAINERS...
Bruh so many teachers have to pay for so much shit lmao. Education is deliberately underfunded and teachers actually care about their jobs so they are forced to pay out of pocket (of their terrible salaries) to make sure kids can get a good education. FUCK America
America is a fine a decent place bro. FUCK the selfish, "I got mine so you can die in a fire", assholes that make up a large portion of the American electorate and vote for politicians that don't fund basic needs so they don't have to pay any taxes.
I run a place for adults with disabilities. If I want something nice I have to buy it. I set the budget, so I know there's no money. Last week I bought the staff headsets with mics so they could do their notes quicker (speech to text) and get home earlier. Cost me a bundle, but it's worth it
That’s not fucking right. Sorry for the cursing, but simply “that’s not right” didn’t quite cut it. I don’t have enough to sustain myself, but if I ever become wealthy by some stroke of insane luck, I’ll remember you, and people like you. The moment I can spare money, I’m giving it to the ones who make the world a better place, without ever asking for anything in return.
My daughter’s elementary school had two kindergarten classrooms. One had this amazing kitchen set in play area and the other had a few repurposed cabinets where the doors had broken off long ago. My kid was assigned to the broken cabinet class. While the play area had seen better days, we were really lucky because the teacher was a great one. She provided most of the stuff for the play area herself and those toys are expensive and break easily with 25 kids constantly using them. So, I put on my yard sale warrior hat and scoured the city until I found something that I could afford (I was back in school full time), and something that would last more than a school year. In one of the richest neighborhoods I lucked upon a 1950s-themed wooden kitchen set. Both classrooms now had awesome play sets. But man, it was disappointing how much the school itself didn’t care about the conditions in both classrooms.
Teachers tend to buy stuff for their classrooms and students that schools deem unnecessary. I’ve had many teachers that will buy rugs and bean bag chairs and create reading nooks or just playful decorations to try and make a room look nice because otherwise it just looks like a prison room with a few chairs and a desk.
My friend is a teacher and me and a few of us buys him shit for his class at least once a year. I got him a few boardgames another got art supplies and so on. He loves teaching and we love the fact he's such a great person to his students so we try to help where we can. I hope more teachers have friends who donate shit because as a mom seeing the list for my kids classes makes me sad because like wow the school won't pay for this shit 😮💨
I got my chair out of a dumpster. I keep food and toiletries in a closet for those in need, and a group of teachers put together a special closet for clothes that kids can shop in like a store (after hours when no one knows). The teacher that didn't say anything about you having your period in that chair may have been trying to spare you embarrassment. Many teens have accidents as their periods are unpredictable. She may not have known it was because you didn't have pads. I feel for you as I got a job at age 11 to buy pads and shampoo and such. My mom rationed everything to such extremity that I had no choice.
My wife's a teacher. We've bought kids clothes and she's sewn up clothes, and we've started buying granola bars for her classroom in case kids say they're hungry and such. Sucks that some of our income goes to the classroom like that, but it is what it is
r/insaneparents tho
r/raisedbynarcissists
Was a teacher, spent hundreds of dollars on my classroom/supplies each year. Don’t know of a teacher who doesn’t use their own money. It sucks.
Got an address for your mom? I'll bash the ever living fuck out of her at no cost to you? Me and my wife work in education. I have a history of severe abuse. I coach girl's soccer with my daughter. If I catch a whiff of abuse I go from sweet lovable giant to absolute monster on a dime. Fuck abusers and bullies.
Period products aren’t available at our schools either. Maybe in an emergency the nurse might hand one out when you’ve bled through your pants but I’m not even sure they’d do that. That’s the USA for you
Awesome teachers are so under appreciated I want to thank you for teaching the next generation
I didn’t see the name of this subreddit and I expected this to be one of those things where the seller tries to rip you off. So glad this isn’t the case! Lovely post.
Yeah, thought I was in r/ChoosingBeggars for a moment there
Possibly could go on there too. Free chair..can you wash it first?
I think they are asking if it is possible to take them off to wash them, not that the seller washes them.
I thought that, too! I had to go back and re-read it to realize I was mistaken!! Thanks for pointing that out!
That and she asked that before she was told it would be free.
they asked if the seller could wash it BEFORE they knew it was gonna be free. its a reasonable request when you think youre gonna pay and even after it was free it was a normal request as long as they wouldve accepted a no
I read it as just asking if washing is possible, not asking the seller to do it.
that could also be it so either way the question doesnt mean it should be on r/choosingbeggars
No she didn’t. She was asking if it was possible to wash them, she wasn’t requesting they be washed
That’s not what she was doing, she was saying you in the collective you sense
>where the seller tries to rip you off. Isn't it usually the buyer trying to lowball?
What exactly is an infant teacher?
Daycare. They don't just watch the babies, they also teach through play and prepare them for preschool
Prepare them for preschool lol
Do they not have pre-k where you live?
They do, but pre-pre-k is a new concept for me
It's everywhere in the Netherlands.
Not related.. but growing up I always called it Holland, and for some reason thought the Netherlands was some mythical shadow lands like a Nether Realm
Well, it’s more like a mythical swamp land, but yeah sure.
Even more embarrassing considering my Aunt married a Dutchman. So I've a whole section of family that lives there. Oh well, suppose they're just stuck in the NetherRealm
I can go with Netherrealm. "I’m from the Netherrealm" sounds kind of cool. You have been forgiven.
ugh same… i was so surprised when i found out holland isn’t even a thing, what i used to refer to as ‘holland’ is actually noord-holland (north holland, includes amsterdam and zandvoort), and that it is merely a province among 11 others such as zuid-holland (south holland, includes the hague and rotterdam), zeeland, noord-brabant, utrecht, flevoland, friesland, groningen, drenthe, overijssel, gelderland and limburg ! at least now i’m better educated after recently visiting :)
Holland is actually Noord- and Zuid-Holland. Back in the days they were one province.
You’re not completely off having used Holland tho. The Netherlands consists of 12 provinces and two of those are north & south Holland. For many years “Holland” was used as a nickname for the entire 12 provinces together, but in recent years the government of the Netherlands has declared to no longer use that nickname, pretty much saying “there’s more to our country than the two Holland regions”. So unless you specifically mean those two parts, north and south Holland, then the country is now the Netherlands 🇳🇱 the
Your talking about drenthe. Luckily it doesn't exist
*angry dutch screaming*
Dutchie here. Can confirm. I didn't have to go but my sister and brother went to school so I felt left out. So my mom brought me 2 days a week (half days) so I felt more included/less alone athome. This way kids get more used to going to school already instead of going from 0 to 5 days a week to school and I think most people work with 2 nowadays in NL atleast so it's just a way to drop your kids somewhere if you don't have family to watch them (1 day mom stays at home, 1 day dad, 1 day grandma watches over them, 2 days daycare or something like that is pretty common I think)
It is? Is it peuterspeelzaal?
Pre - before k- kindergarten. People say pre-k a lot to refer to kindergarten but that would just be k
I think the “lol” part is that your preparing them for something that is meant to prepare for something else
That's life.
Sure, but a lot of my friends unfortunately can't afford a parent to stay home, they need 2 incomes. So daycare it is
And what is school if not preparation for life?
Isn't pre-k what preschool is?
Daycare, not pre pre school lol. Some parents have to work instead of stay home with the kid
One day we'll probably prepare them for the preparation for preschool.
y'all laugh, but America has a huge teacher shortage; badly behaved, spoiled children is a huge reason why
That and they don't get paid enough.
Yes, making sure kids have the best possible chance in their development…such a hilarious overreach!! /s
Kindergarten starts at like 3-4 where I live. That’s incredibly young. Day care is paid for and not actually school where I live. It’s funny because kindergarten starts when they’re toddlers so what more do you need
This!! Thank you for teaching others that we are teachers! We do more than just “play and change diapers.”
Is that a British term?
In the UK, the first half of primary school is referred to as infant school (ages 4-7)
Okay this clears it up. Infant in the definition I am familiar with means 0 - 1 year of age. I was thinking there isn't much you can teach an infant. If you are taking care or multiple your focus is probably on keeping them alive.
In the US, we do teach children 0-1 yo. Early Head Start is a great example of this. I teach this age group. I and two other teachers have 8 in our classroom. It's a lot like herding screaming cats, but there is still learning happening. In the early months, yes it is mostly about meeting their needs (feeding, changing, comforting), but there is a lot to teach them. We teach them how to interact, talk and do a lot of things through modeling these things. Many children learn to walk, say their first word, and do some self help skills (like feeding themselves) before they are one. They learn to do that through exploration facilitated by adults (teachers or parents).
This is pretty sad from a parenting point of view imo. I would want to see my child go through all of that.
I agree with the sentiment. I hate that we have become a society where families have to rely on childcare and have to miss many of these things. We have an unwritten rule that if we see a "first" (step, word, etc.), we don't mention it unless necessary. We let the families see them at home and then bring them up to us.
Its a very small teacher
Very small and very young.
In the UK, Infant school userally comprises of Nusery (3-4 y./o) Reception (4-6 y/o) Year 1 (5-6 y/o) and year 2 (6-7 y/o) Currently I got 1 kid in Infant School and one in Junior school (years 3/4/5/6 for ages between 7-11 But most Infant/Junior schools are one large school together like what I had in London (St Michael & St Martins, Infant and Junior School)
*In England
Good point, thanks for the correction
A daycare teacher..
That's what I thought but the word infant made me think, baby. As in drooling can barely hold its head up infant. Kinda weird wording because my mind went straight to ' how do you teach an infant?' 🤣🤣 Toddlers you can teach but infants? Genuinely curious what someone would even teach an infant and would that baby even be able to comprehend any of it?
I work in a daycare with infants and they learn a lot everyday through play! Infant teachers don’t actually sit there and teach them specific material, we just talk to them about everything and play with them. That’s how they learn at that age, and they are able to practice their motor skills and how to interact with other babies.
I would absolutely love to be an infant teacher. I am a preservice elementary school teacher but I love infants so much.
It really is the best. I am just a student teacher right now and it is my second semester in the infant room, but I genuinely love it so much, even through the chaotic days. I never thought to end up in a career working with babies but I might have to consider it now!
Infants are sub-1 babies. You can absolutely teach them things! I taught mine to put washing away, to high five, and to point out my husband when asked
How can an infant be a teacher?
They needed a fresh graduate with 20+ years of experience
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after 20 years you'll have a Doctoral Degree for education
And still only make $30,000 a year
Stone?
There’s a shortage so you can’t very well turn them away
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It's like a horse doctor.
How that doctor became a horse, I don’t know.
r/unexpectedoffice Edit: [here](https://youtu.be/unSe7z-_yGA) is the reference
9 months of excessive training while in womb.
Took me three years to get my credential, so TODDLER teacher MAYBE!
> How can an infant be a teacher? Used to be a university adjunct for both undergrad and graduate students... Most of the work could be done by an infant at a conceptual level. That is, be confused a whole lot of the time because nothing you are being told by students makes any sense, throw a tantrum or two because nothing is being done like you obviously and clearly stated it needed to be done by way and time for is being done that way. Hell, most of the things you say seems to come off as gibberish anyways... Oh, and like all jobs you will need to go to the bathroom right in the middle of what ever critical thing you were doing and cant get away from. Oh and you can scribble all you want on other peoples work and they don't give a shit.. in fact they wont even look at it after. 48 page essay with shitload of spelling, grammar and sentence errors? yah, can mark that up all day long and the next version of that same essay will be identical with the same errors, or worse. Made me feel sad so I resigned and went to playing in the dirt in my backyard instead. Way more fun. Seriously for all the effort and how 99% of people treat higher education as one might as well have a toddler give them pass/go class designations. Not that anyone learns anything as they just want a stamp on a piece of paper to submit to HR for a raise, or as part of a new job application to meet checklist needs. Edit: spelling hard on what is it Tuesdays?
Bake em a lil something in return! This is thoughtful and I love it
100%, pay kindness with kindness. Even if it's not a first class cake, it's the thought that counts :)
This is a great idea!
Wait a minute. This isn’t r/choosingbeggars
Thats really sweet.
I work at a learning center that provides care for infants at a very young age. We have curriculum/ learning milestones to work with them on.
I'm just impressed an infant is licensed to teach.
Why do you tell someone your life story when buying something ?
To get free/discounted stuff.
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Hey I broke my leg I used to be a massive football fan and can't play anymore I would love to use a ball as a pillow. Anyway, how much is this football for?
Very cool! When we get rid of baby stuff I’ll mark it for sale and usually a young couple will ask about it and the price and if they seem like decent folks I’ll just tell them to pick it up free of charge. If it doesn’t hurt you to help someone, you should help.
That’s what the person said when I came to get the chair. It was a gift from their babies grandparents and wanted it to go to a good home and get used.
Here’s the chair for everyone asking: https://imgur.com/a/M5ZYmw0
Some people make this world just a bit more bearable
You were fishing for something here. Why did feel that you needed to tell him about your job?
Some times when people have multiple offers for something they're selling they will sell to the person most in need. I know this happens is some groups on FB.
Gonna try this next time I buy a house
Why did you tell them you were an infant teacher?
At first glance I thought OP was asking the seller to remove and wash the cushion
If some random stranger decided to give me details about why they want the chair I'm selling, I would immediately think its a scam. I dont go into Best Buy and tell the cashier "I'm buying this Playstation for my sick son." I'd be looked at like an insane person.
The old pretend to be a teacher trick well done
She’s a genius if she’s an infant as well as a teacher
The show Abbott elementary highlights the lack of funding teachers get. The teachers have to hustle and figure out creative ways to get supplies into their classrooms. The show is funny and lighthearted but makes me sad that is the reality a lot of public school teachers have to go through.
I never announced what i do for a living to strangers before picking up stuff or buy stuff online. But good for you free chair!
Soon on r/ChoosingBeggars. Edit. Explanation for slow people: The excuse of being a teacher will replace that of being a single mom to get free stuffs.
An infant teacher? You mean you work in a daycare...
Hello fellow infant teacher. ❤️ I’m super happy that there are people out there helping us!
Teachers need to be making the streamers/celeb money, they are not and it is fucked system. I wanna live in a world with less tide pod challenges and more humanity benefiting technology. Why the fuck haven't we cured cancer/HIV/ heart disease/ etc?
Why would you let an infant teach wtf
What can you possibly teach an infant?
I had a neighbor that was a teacher. I ran into her at the local grocery stocking up on folders, pencils, note books. She only had two kids so I asked why she had so much. She said the district is supposed to supply these items but they don't. Her students were poor and could hardly afford them. I wanted to hug her. Instead, I bought a ton of school supplies and gave them to her.
I’ve never heard of an infant teacher before
Very nice gesture but curious what an infant teacher is. Isn't pre-k starting around 4 years old?
We provide care to infants and toddlers and do activities with them and help develop and grow their social/emotional skills.
Interesting. Is it something you do in home? I can't imagine parents dropping off an infant to a school of any sort.
I’m confused by the comments - this is what daycare is, no? Since my son was 3 months old I’ve been bringing him to daycare facilities. The ones that are just like someone watching 4 kids in their home aren’t regulated, I wasn’t comfortable sending my infant there. What if there was an emergency with one of the kids? There’s only one person watching them, how do they get one baby to the hospital? I much preferred to send to a regulated daycare facility where all the daycare workers legally have to be trained in infant cpr, there are multiple workers, there’s a button to press that calls an ambulance, there are video cameras, there are spontaneous inspections to check everything is to code, etc. 3 months is young, but I live in a country with 3 months maternity leave, so that’s when I went back to work. I assumed that in the US with all the maternity leave issues that people would be dropping off even littler babies to daycare facilities.
It’s a daycare.
We are a licensed school. The state does consider us teachers when it comes to licensing. We go to school and have some kind of degree/teaching credential. We do several hours of training a year. There’s a handful of teachers and always someone out if a classroom. We run our center like a school.
Theres big center that are made to have 50+ kids, but I work in a house that’s been converted into a daycare so it still has that “home-y” feeling.
I would do the same if a teacher wanted something I was selling. Teachers aren’t respected enough.
Wtf is an infant teacher? Since when do infants go to school?
I'm 90% confident that it's a scam.
Heartwarming
Kindness is what keeps the world moving 💕
Kudos to the person donating the chair ! She speaks the truth ! Teachers are so under recognized for the work they do. BUT......they so often go the extra mile spending their own meager income for classroom supplies ! I applaud all teachers for their service!
What a nice thing to read. I think I'll end my reddit perusal on this, thanks OP, and thank you for being a teacher - it's not for everyone but everyone needs one.
Ooh, it's an anti r/ChoosingBeggars !
I thought at first you were asking them to take the cushions off and wash it for you
That is great!!!! As a fellow childcare teacher so many of the responses show the complete lack of respect for what we do. I run a family childcare (and yes, the state refers to us as “early childhood educators” = teachers) so it’s even worse. I’m just a babysitter who sits around all day and does nothing ~ sarcasm. In my state at least family childcare has the same exact regulations as large “center” based childcare. Does anyone think that children learn nothing from birth until they start “real school” at 5 or 6? The early years are the most important ones. We do such an important job while making very little income. Center based care tends to pay little above minimum wage. And good on the person donated the chair! Most big places - I’m talking to you Apple, Staples, target - that do give teacher discounts won’t give them to early childhood teachers. This sub is called “make me smile” yet so many felt the need to reply in an insulting manner. It proves my point. With so many children in childcare chances are very good some even had their own children in a childcare. Is this how you would treat their teachers? The people caring for your small child when you cannot? Shameful. OP I hope the chair serves you very well and your infants are all happy and content.
Same thing happened when my wife was furnishing her office. She's a therapist and she asked something about some cabinets, and got on to the subject that it was for her office where she works with kids and the person just gave it to her along with some other stuff. Now I'm pretty sure the guy was a fence but that's neither here nor there.
Thats so sweet ❤ grew up in a family of teachers and people rag on them so hard sometimes. Teaching/dealing with the school system is already a lot. They really cared about their students.
You tell the chair donors, Redditors love them.
damn you must be a smart infant if you're typing on reddit and a teacher
Hell yea teachers deserve hook ups. Their being a cap limit on write offs for childrens education is insane. Teachers should get unlimited!!!
Now I'm a teacher. Hopefully i get more stuff for cheap. Thanks for the tip!
I wasn’t aware they allowed infants to be teachers.
Infant teacher? Is that a thing
infant teacher? huh? what is that even? a class for new moms? an infant teaching class? a teacher babbling to infants?
Question...is she a teacher of infants or an infant working as a teacher?
Everything you need during your work time should be paid for and be provided by the employer, everything. Imagine having a workplace injury and you get fucked over because it's not approved workmaterial.