An eligible educator can deduct up to $300 of any unreimbursed business expenses for classroom materials, such as books, supplies, computers (including related software and services) or other equipment that the eligible educator uses in the classroom. Supplies for courses on health and physical education qualify only if they are related to athletics.
Don’t business people get to write off lunches and shit if they are “business related”?
And just find me a teacher that spends last than $300 to kit out their classroom. I think the pizza party I threw cost more than that.
It is insane to me that the teachers have to pay for any of it.
My wife is a teacher. About 2k per year of our own money goes to fund basic supplies in her classroom.
By basic I literally mean pens, paper, soap, folders, erasers, backpacks.
We also keep a little food stocked in her classroom for kids with blood sugar and nutritional issues, since it’s a very poor income district, but I wasn’t including that when I last did her expenses since it comes straight from our grocery budget.
That’s fucking nuts.
Yeah dude. Be nice to teachers because they literally bleed for their students. ( Most of them)
I bought my own baking soda and vinegar for my chemistry classes. And glow sticks, and candy, and glassware, and scales…
Crazy.
It taught me to recognize the value in a lot of trash and turned me into the Greek God of thrifting. I can turn a balloon, solo cup and some rubber bands into a “vortex cannon.” “Let’s just walk outside and draw pictures of bugs” is one of my favorite “lessons.” I’d keep free samples/supplies given out at teacher conferences - if I could get 5 or 6 different things, it worked well as “stations.”
The poverty part I honestly can deal with. I’d be back in a heartbeat if it was possible.
