Monday, November 24, 2008

Teachers Asking For Help

I know Jason will be like, wow 2 posts in a night after 3 months of silence what's going on but I felt I needed to call attention to the following website: donorschoose.org. It is a new website that fundraises for teachers.
This is where the American education system is at right now. There is not enough money for classrooms, not enough for chairs, and not enough for a positive learning envrionments. So teachers have taken matters into their own hands.
People have the ability to donate money to classrooms and fund projects they feel are helping their children. What does this mean for future classrooms? Will people suddenly feel like donating their money to have not schools, or will economic disparity simply increase as rich neighbourhoods donate money to their local schools.
There is also the possibility that the projects that teachers want to get funded will be so mind-blowing that people will hand over their life savings because they are so impressed. I for one vote we create a website for donations so that our fearless leader can take us on a trip across Europe to study the effects the second world war and cold war have had there. If you think about it, by teaching us phenomenally well, the extrapolated passion and experience we will have for the subject will be exponentially more important because of the large amount of fresh young minds we will impress upon during the tenure of our careers.

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