While subbing I often see kids who have no snack. In our district the parent must provide the snack. So these kids just sit there hungry while the entire rest of the class eats.
Additionally on Fridays if a parents provides money their kid can buy ice cream. So kids whose parents don’t do this, can’t participate. It’s a hard pill to swallow for a kid elementary age to have to watch everyone else eat ice cream but themselves because they have a struggling parent.
But here we are teacher appreciation week and I cannot get over how many thousands of dollars are being spent this week by the PTA to for elaborate Teacher lunches, breakfast, t-shirts etc….
As a parent myself. I donated pretty heavily this year to the PTA but this will be the last. I’ll celebrate my kids teacher myself and my extra $’s are going to real causes.