Blog Post 7

  In schools today it seems that every teacher feels that they need to get as much as they can while the time is right.  Buying in bulk for school teachers is equivalent to power lifting for weight lifters.  Whenever teachers see something that they think they will need for the future, they buy as much as they can.  Ohanian says "Most of us never use 80% of the materials jammed into our classrooms, but we cling to them "just in case."", showing that the reason that most school teachers do this is because of fear I think.  Many schools, financially, are not stable enough to be able to provide necessities that their students need so many teachers will buy them and use the many out of their own pockets to get what is needed.  For instance, when the winter months start rolling around many teachers go out buy tissues for their students or encourage their students to bring boxes for extra credit that way they do not run out during the sniffling season.  It has become a shame that most teachers have to cherish such little things now because they do not know if they will need that at some point in their teaching careers later on, but they may not be supplied them by their school or district.  I believe that this is one of the reasons why so many people fear the area of going into teaching because they are so unsure of what or when they will need to provide for their classroom because their school superiors can not due to budget circumstances.