Idiocracy was a prophecy all along. Next years plan is to throw in a little bit of Running Man by equipping teachers with hockey sticks to beat the competition.
"“I think it’s really cool when the community offers an opportunity like this for things that educators a lot of times pay out of pocket for,” Alexandria Kuyper, a fifth-grade teacher at Discovery elementary school said."
Article kind of burys the lede, this is the issue at hand and what makes this tasteless. If this was just extra money for a field trip or something that's one thing, but this isn't a donation to the class, it's replacing things that the teachers personally buy because the schools don't purchase basic supplies.
We have plenty of money to perpetually increase the police budgets, though...
our teachers are some of the most poorly paid in the country but I guarantee that this was not intended nor taken as "demeaning" by anyone involved. this is the social media thing where something gets taken out of context and posted online, someone sees it and makes a viral hot take, and then said hot take is the lens everyone views the thing through & prejudges accordingly.
(disclaimer: presently employed by a SD school system, but not this one.)
> “I think it’s really cool when the community offers an opportunity like this for things that educators a lot of times pay out of pocket for,” Alexandria Kuyper, a fifth-grade teacher at Discovery elementary school said.
The most poignant part of Squid Game was that they had the chance to leave, and many chose to participate anyway because of how badly they needed the money.
This should have been a simple donation instead of a “game”, but the real evil is the broken system that put the teachers in this position to begin with.