"Cause I ain't got a pencil" :wow:

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The teacher fussed because they are underfunded and the teachers spend out of pocket for most expenses. Not having a pencil means somebody gotta supply the students with the necessities.... The teacher already broke as shyt so what can you do?

idk if that’s necessarily true...many teachers bought/found pencils and kept a bin for students to use...plus we didn’t really have to buy them...you could just take some out the supply closet

the only time I’d “fuss” w/ a student about a pencil when I was teaching @ the lower grade levels is if they just sat their and refused to work w/o @ least asking another student or myself for a pencil cuz if I pulled out some candy or another student did they’d be quick to ask about that...nothing wrong w/ not having a pencil but I was not gonna allow them to be content w/ not doing anything about it...they were young but still old enough (5th grade) to take initiative and solve minor problems like that on their own
 
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fukk that teacher

why are they making students remove clothing for a damn pencil
Breh mad nikkas was just lazy and didnt bring pencils just cuz.......i should kno i was one of em:lolbron:. Teachers got 40 kids to teach they dont have time to worry about everyone.
 

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idk if that’s necessarily true...many teachers bought/found pencils and kept a bin for students to use...plus we didn’t really have to buy them...you could just take some out the supply closet

the only time I’d “fuss” w/ a student about a pencil when I was teaching @ the lower grade levels is if they just sat their and refused to work w/o @ least asking another student or myself for a pencil cuz if I pulled out some candy or another student did they’d be quick to ask about that...nothing wrong w/ not having a pencil but I was not gonna allow them to be content w/ not doing anything about it...they were young but still old enough (5th grade) to take initiative and solve minor problems like that on their own

Its True, My girl is a teacher and her and her teacher friends are constantly buying supplies for the classroom.
 

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Its True, My girl is a teacher and her and her teacher friends are constantly buying supplies for the classroom.

it’s not...I was just being polite...I was a teacher for almost 20 years...and they’re doing it wrong if they’re using their own money for pencils...many teachers—

  1. get a personal stipend for buying supplies
  2. go around the classroom at the end of the day...pick up dropped pencils...sharpen them...put them in a general bin that students have access to if they don’t have pencils
  3. have access to a teacher supply closet that have a shyt ton of pens/pencils

—again not all but many...now I’ve definitely used my own $$$ for other things but they’re usually major supplies that I couldn’t get w/ the stipend that was allowed or I couldn’t get from the supply closet or in some instances I could’ve waited to have the school order the item but it would’ve taken too long for my preference...but pencils? no...that’s a minor/frivolous expense

keeping it all the way funky if a teacher is fussing about a pencil it’s probably bcuz...

...the student doesn’t have a pencil...is not doing the work AND being a class distraction

...is ALWAYS unprepared (a decent teacher will buy the student a personal set of pencils if it’s a student who genuinely wants to work and being able to afford pencils is an issue)

...the teacher just doesn’t like the student(s) (unfortunately this is a nasty reality of the job...these types of teachers are in abundance...especially when you have white teachers working in schools w/ a heavy population of black students...this is probably the type of teacher the student’s poem is about)
 
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How do you know the teacher is broke.... and having 150 to 200 extra pencils in your drawer ain’t breaking the bank.... Teacher should’ve just said you owe me a dime... and what the fukk does the school board’s failures have to do with a 14 year old student

Having 200 pens, 200 markers, several packs of dry erase markers, dry erase erasers, paper towels, tissues, reams of paper, spiral notebooks, composition notebooks, colored pencils, scissors, folders, hand sanitizer, glue sticks, extra rulers... Then paying for rent, gas + electric, water bill, internet, food, etc. on 40k per year might mean paying for a 200 extra pencils could break the bank.

I absolutely get it though. The kid who penned that poem deserves some accolades and money because it is that way for so many kids. Irony is, I worked on behalf of Balto. City schools and saw it firsthand.
 
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