$5,000 needed for paper, string and glue

[hippocritical]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018869348

demtenjeep (23,161 posts)   Sun May 29, 2016, 03:48 AM

can you help rebuild my classroom warchest
 
https://www.gofundme.com/26wffbg#

For the last 5 years, I had been teaching in a setting that did not allow for hands on project based learning. Due to Sam Brownback and his hatred toward Kansas schools, my former program -which did such good for my students-was closed. Since my program was closed, I was placed into a middle school US History class needing to start all over.

i will need everything from binders, spiral notebooks, index cards, paper light, white to many colors, construction paper to poster board colored pencils, crayons, markers, glue sticks, tape, lots of it, scotch and packing tape, clear shelf liner to protect student's work. Then i will need supplies to display the finished products. Yarn, string, lightweight fishing twine , kite string, and a whole host of endless supplies.

any help would be wonderful.

if you feel so inclined.

edited by franksolich to add name of original primitive posting this

[DumbAss Tanker]

Sounds more like an elementary school art class.

[jukin]

Please tell me that these pathetic, unintelligent, DUchebags are not anywhere near children, much less teaching them.

[franksolich]

demtenjeep (23,161 posts)    Sun May 29, 2016, 12:28 PM

4. i currently don't have many photos...new phone, different school computer since i was moved
 
we use old milk/juice cartons, potting soil and dowl rods and nuts and bolts to 'mine for gold'

i take students around the outside area and 'recreate' observation much like Lewis and Clark might have done and have students journal and then make diaries as if they were doing the expedition like Lewis and Clark might have done.

13 colonies mobile is always a fun one

we have made paper mache' globes

a ton of foldables for vocabs and essential question/answer

Civil War generals trading cards

important battles of the Civil War cubes

just anything i can think of to make it touchable, visual to make it come alive for my students

Seventy bucks from two primitives has been raised thus far, $5,000 being the goal.

[franksolich]

Sounds more like an elementary school art class.

What's scary is that she's using first- or second-grade-level "projects" for junior-high-school-aged kids.

[Fourwinds]

Please tell me that these pathetic, unintelligent, DUchebags are not anywhere near children, much less teaching them.

They've been around them for years starting in kindergarten and ending at the university level. For every person posting on DU there's at least 50 like them who do not post on DU but share the same mentality and are just as insane out there in positions teaching children.

[franksolich]

Ooops.

Somebody got wise to Pamela.

noamnety (20,184 posts)    Sun May 29, 2016, 10:03 AM

3. Before paying retail for all this
 
I would spend June/July stalking the free section of craigslist. Most of this is stuff that in my area comes up in the free offers fairly regularly.

I would also break down your costs better on the gofundme page to explain where the $5,000 figure came from and where it's all going. I'm saying this because that's about double what a typical art room budget is for the year where I teach; and you're using the supplies for art-related activities in a history class, so that can be hard to understand.

I took a look at the items you listed, and priced them out on amazon, trying to be overly generous in quantities, and it didn't even come out to a third of what you are requesting.

$100: 50 3 ring binders
$175: 125 spiral notebooks
$24: 2000 index cards
$210: 10000 sheets colored light weight construction paper
$84: 20000 sheets white copy paper
$160: 500 poster boards
$202: 72 packs of colored pencils, 24ct
$110: 60 boxes of 24ct crayons
$30: 90 glue sticks
$50: 30 rolls masking tape
$20: 20 rolls generic scotch tape
$13.50 12 rolls of packing tape
$83: 48 packs of fine point markers,
$106: 48 packs of thick markers
$100: 375 ft of clear shelf liner to protect student's work.
$50: 2,800 yards of yarn in 20 assorted colors
$16.50: 3,000 yards of lightweight fishing twine
$28.50: 5,000 feet twine/kite string

Total: $1562.50

It seems like "another 3400 in other miscellaneous expenses" is a lot to request through gofundme.

The teachers where I work have the best luck with gofundme when they ask for something very specific and can quote a price - like "this projection machine - here's a link and the price." It comes across less like a slush fund going to the teacher's pocket* with no accountability.

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[Ralph Wiggum]

Ooops.

Somebody got wise to Pamela.

*

As libs & DUmmies call it, administrative costs.  Same with unions.

[BattleHymn]

3400 in other miscellaneous expenses

"Miscellaneous expenses": 


Let me help you with that:

http://travel.costhelper.com/mexico-cruise.html


Pool boys cost money, you know.

[franksolich]

Pamela's getting a little touchy there.  GOBUCKS must be goosing her.

demtenjeep (23,168 posts)    Sun May 29, 2016, 02:47 PM

5. IT IS ONGOING ALL YEAR AND I HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY KIDS I WILL HAVE
 
that was not an exact list

depends on the students, the units, the time, the behavior the inspiration

all i know is it is expensive and i have not had a raise in 8 years

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Hey Pamela.

Eight years, huh?

Who's been in the White House the past eight years?

I thought your Oreo cookie guy was going to take care of things like this.

[BattleHymn]

If all of that stuff is so important to her, why doesn't she sell some of her own stuff to cover the costs?

Isn't that what socialism is about?  Taking something against someone's will, in this case, Pam's, and applying it towards a perceived need of a lesser group? 

[BattleHymn]

And another thing, Battlehymn has had is own "Gofundme" campaign going since February.  It's called having two ****ing jobs, you lazy bitch.  You want something, go out and get it, and quit sitting around with your damn hand out in hopes of profiting off of someone else's sweat.

[Carl]

Pam is a pathological liar and beggar.

[Patriot Guard Rider]

If all of that stuff is so important to her, why doesn't she sell some of her own stuff to cover the costs?

Isn't that what socialism is about?  Taking something against someone's will, in this case, Pam's, and applying it towards a perceived need of a lesser group?

C'mon man. Socialism is to be paid for by the OTHER guy.

[I_B_Perky]

And another thing, Battlehymn has had is own "Gofundme" campaign going since February.  It's called having two ****ing jobs, you lazy bitch.  You want something, go out and get it, and quit sitting around with your damn hand out in hopes of profiting off of someone else's sweat.

H5!

[DumbAss Tanker]

What's scary is that she's using first- or second-grade-level "projects" for junior-high-school-aged kids.

My point exactly.  For a middle school history class, this only makes sense if she's teaching special ed students, which I suppose is possible if her system is cynical enough to stick those poor kids with the dud round.

[BattleHymn]

My point exactly.  For a middle school history class, this only makes sense if she's teaching special ed students, which I suppose is possible if her system is cynical enough to stick those poor kids with the dud round.

Pam is so dumb that they probably stuck her in a room full of mannequins dressed to look like kids, and she hasn't noticed they're not real live students yet.

[Big Dog]

No raise in eight years?

The Wichita school board is reliably Democrat, but even they know the value of a primitive.

[98ZJUSMC]

I had been teaching in a setting that did not allow for hands on project based learning. Due to Sam Brownback and his hatred toward Kansas schools,

Gots to have them keywords, don'tcha Primitive.

 

You are so full of shit.

all i know is it is expensive and i have not had a raise in 8 years

2016-8 = ? 

bOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOsh!!!111!!!!! and jooooOOOOOs

[FaC]

noamnety (20,185 posts)
7. Maybe an initial list of specifics for now would get a better result

and do another request next school year when you have a better idea of class sizes and needs.

I think most teachers begin the year without an exact student count - the best we can do is base estimates on previous years. And then we have supply lists that are specific to the projects we know we will be doing.

I've just never seen a successful gofundme request that was in the form of "I need thousands of dollars and I have no idea what most of it is for and can't account for what I'm going to do with 2/3 of what I am asking for."

Zing - that left a mark...

[Delmar]

From the Go Grift page:

Pamela Dawson    11 hours ago I don't have a lot of photos as it was over 5 years ago when I did all the cool projects teaching 8th grade and I have had a different computer and phone since then; but we used dowl rods and potting soil and nuts and bolts to pan for 'gold' I do a lot of hanging mobiles, globes, foldables, Civil War generals playing cards, industrial revolution inventions, Lewis and Clark expedition complete with 'authentic journal'

Pan for gold.  That's fitting.

Like others have said, those sound like activities for little kids.

[Carl]

A previous go fund me scam.

Sun Mar 29, 2015, 04:52 PM

demtenjeep (22,151 posts)

he didn't even have a blanket of his own
 

I teach at a school where most kids have been in trouble for some reason or another. Expelled for drugs, or battery on staff or peers, fights or threats or any other number of things. We are their "second" chance to salvage some credits towards graduation even though they have been kicked out of mainstream schools.

I run an incentive program to aid the students in good behavior. Each week the students earn tickets every hour for doing what they are supposed to be doing. The tickets are put into a container for a chance to win one of two different items every Friday. Most of the time these are small items such as home baked goods or 5 dollar gift cards for various places.

A couple weeks ago, we had a small fleece blanket donated to use in the drawing. Not a big thing to most people.

I had a student approach me in private asking about the blanket. He said he hoped he won it because his cousin stole his blanket and he had nothing to sleep on. This is a 16 year old kid. How can he not have a blanket. (I felt really horrible especially when I thought of the three blankets we put in our dog cages)

Hubby and I went that night and bought a blanket. I took it the next day and told the student I couldn't guarantee he would win the blanket and so we "just had one" and brought it to him. He was very grateful.

HOW can someone not even have a blanket to call their own.


As part of our program, all kids are required to take a "group class" it is a therapy type class taught by a social worker. We are going to get yards of that fleece material and next year, towards Thanksgiving, we are going to teach the students we have then how to make their own blankets and they can pick out the colors they want. Then they can either keep it for themselves or give it to someone they love at Christmas.

We are going to look for grants to help pay the cost of the material because the cheapest price we have fount is 3.98 a yard. Each blanket takes 4 yards. We could have anywhere from 10 to 30 students.

I just could not believe it. And then people wonder why students do horrible on tests.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026434056

http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=101535.0

Now re read how she describes where she teaches.

demtenjeep (23,161 posts)   Sun May 29, 2016, 03:48 AM

can you help rebuild my classroom warchest
 
https://www.gofundme.com/26wffbg#

For the last 5 years, I had been teaching in a setting that did not allow for hands on project based learning. Due to Sam Brownback and his hatred toward Kansas schools, my former program -which did such good for my students-was closed. Since my program was closed, I was placed into a middle school US History class needing to start all over.

i will need everything from binders, spiral notebooks, index cards, paper light, white to many colors, construction paper to poster board colored pencils, crayons, markers, glue sticks, tape, lots of it, scotch and packing tape, clear shelf liner to protect student's work. Then i will need supplies to display the finished products. Yarn, string, lightweight fishing twine , kite string, and a whole host of endless supplies.

any help would be wonderful.

if you feel so inclined.

[RobJohnson]

As libs & DUmmies call it, administrative costs.  Same with unions.

Shipping and handling, LOL

[RobJohnson]

i will need everything from binders, spiral notebooks, index cards, white light , 

At first this is what I thought my eyes seen.... I will be happy to send some white light so they can play in the dirt. How dare a liberal public school teacher use the word "Christmas" when telling a blanket story?

[franksolich]

So, I went and checked.

After five days, $145's been raised, $2,000 being the goal.

It looks to me as if Pamela downsized her expectations; I believe the original goal was $5,000.