The other day, I received an email saying something along the lines of “our meeting will be at school X. There is a lot of old curriculum and supplies at this school, if you want to look around to find things you can use, please arrive 15 minutes early to take a look around.”
Any guesses as to how early most people were? Remember it was a work day… if you said one hour, you are the winner. By the time I arrived, (not being a principal capable of leaping out of my desk to rocket over to school X), HUGE piles of crap had been assembled. Art supplies, books, microscopes from 1953 (still good!), even a garbage can full of yard sticks. Kleenex boxes! One enterprising person raided for copy paper – something we are currently fighting for. It like a dress sale at Klien*felds.
It’s not just the bad economic times, teachers have always had sticky fingers whenever anything is up for grabs. Otherwise it would be coming out of our own pockets.
I grabbed a bookshelf, some very, very old reading content (good for high school readers), and some AR books that may work in my room. Saving myself probably a good $200!
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