<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Geoffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>I'll take a different spin on this. How many of you purchase your own<br>
supplies for your job? Who do you think keeps stores like the School<br>
Box in business? Who spends their own personal money there? It's not<br>
the school system. It's the teachers.<br>
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I was utterly amazed when I learned that virtually everything you see a<br>
teacher put on the wall in their classroom is purchased by their own<br>
personal money.<br><br></blockquote></div>And in many cases they are REQUIRED to do so by their principal as a condition of professional evaluation.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III <br>
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