Grundschullehrer in Ontario erhalten ab Herbst Ausgabenkonten für Unterrichtsmaterialien, sagt Doug Ford – thestar.com
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ontario-elementary-teachers-to-get-spending-accounts-for-classroom-supplies-starting-this-fall-doug-ford/article_f4687021-c4c4-4b20-9339-13e2aafa1313.html
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Not a terrible idea on its face, teachers know what their classes need. I just really hope he doesn’t spend the next four years making a bunch of intricate rules about how they can and can’t spend the money.
Summary from source without paywall (comment: a good argument from public broadcasting; no paywalls!)
– receive $750 purchasing cards for classroom supplies starting next school year,
– The new Classroom Supplies Fund will be included in Ontario’s 2026 budget, which is scheduled to be released on March 26.
– Ford says he has encountered teachers buying classroom supplies with their own money while shopping at dollar stores and says they should not have to do that.
– teachers will receive a classroom supplies card directing them to the website, along with instructions on how to access it https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-budget-2026-classroom-supplies-fund-9.7124182
Teachers should continue to be allowed to spend that money on dollar stores and be compensated via receipts from this fund. It will probably save money in the long run.
Good change that should’ve happened decades ago and pleasantly surprising to see it coming from the PC’s. I’ve always found it insane talking with my teacher friends on how much they’re expected to pay out of pocket for BASIC supplies. We’re talking things like kleenex, pencils, and duotangs.
Nevermind actual teaching aids for the younger classes like picture books, puzzles, bins of counters, connecting cubes, lego, dinosaurs, or whatever else. It varies between school districts but is pretty much all straight out of pocket or donated from parents. The cute Christmas ornament or Easter basket or Mother’s Day craft your first grade kid comes home with is a product of their first grade teacher spending hundreds of dollars.
A needed measure. My wife spends hundreds upon hundreds every year teaching kindergarten. They are hard on supplies and it really adds up.
Of course if the provincial website doesn’t include toys, loose parts, etc it will be useless for kinder and she will still have to spend our money at dollar stores, Amazon and used marketplaces.
I guess we’ll see if this good idea is ruined by a bad implementation. The items listed in the article are useless for kinder.
I think this is fantastic. “Broken Clock” analogy seems applicable here, but ya . This is awesome. Really happy with this as a policy from Dougy Drop-out.
Here in NL we get a list at the end of the year to bring in all the classroom supplies, its abit silly that the parents are put in the duty of supplying our public schools.
This is the sort of thing the knuckle dragger ONPC voter will point to and grunt “see? Doug goood!” And then vote the fucker in for another 4 years