<p>AP Calculus teacher does what he has to do to pay for photocopying:</p>
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<p>Exam Question # 1: The father of the student sitting next to you has purchased an “ad” in the test you are taking. Your parents cannot afford to buy “ad” space in the test. Your teacher relies on continued “ad” purchases from your classmate’s father to fund his classroom needs, and he knows that an irate or disappointed parent is less likely to be supportive of him. How does this make you feel?
A. Worried
B. Uncomfortable
C. Angry
D. Disadvantaged
E. All of the above
F. Until my parents pony up some cash, it doesn’t really matter how I feel.</p>
<p>Doesn’t that make you sick? But it’s a hilarious idea that I’m forwarding to my son’s Calculus teacher.</p>
<p>Parents are always asking how they can help…</p>
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<p>Ditto. Teachers need a chuckle in the midst of the doom and gloom.</p>
<p>Sounds like good ole American ingenuity at work. However, maybe they should think of more creative ways to avoid the $316 printing costs in the first place.</p>
<p>This is the same HS that produced the latest Jeopardy Teen champion and also the National Spelling Bee champion (same guy won both - Anurag Kashyap).</p>
<p>I suppose writing the problems on the black/whiteboard and having the kids solve the problems on notebook paper are too last century, hmmm?</p>
<p>This is so sad. Paper would seem to be one of the most elemental items in a school. When I was working with student teachers more than 15 years ago, I became aware of schools where teachers were limited to one ream of paper per semester. Others where a teacher had one set of quizzes/tests and handed them to the class which then copied the questions onto their own paper and gave the answers.</p>
<p>Of course, as owlice points out, one could write things on the board and have students solve things on their own. I would, however, point out that in most cases, copying is busy work that doesnot promote learning, thus a waste of already precious classtime. It also doesn’t account for miscopying which introduces an additional set of problems. Is the student penalized (a) for answering a correctly copied problem incorrectly as well as (b) for miscopying the problem and therefore not being able to solve it, or worse, for solving the wrongly copied problem correctly?</p>
<p>In the 21st century, it would seem that limits on paper/copying should be seen as an outrage in our schools.</p>
<p>Good idea: maybe. Bad idea for him to become well-known for doing it? I am still trying to think through the possibilities but since he is doing this on his own, the IRS is going to consider every dime he gets in advertising his income for which he has to pay taxes and he might not be able to deduct the copying costs.</p>
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<p>I remember having both this and the school’s policy where they’d only give teachers a certain amount of chalk per semester. If they wrote too much on the board they’d have to go out and buy their own chalk.</p>
<p>It was really surprising since it was a great public high school in a middle/upper-middle class area.</p>
<p>You may want to read the article a few more times. Checks are made payable to the Math Department, and any out-of-pocket expenses he incurs for teaching related activities (copying, for instance) would certainly be tax deductible. A tax credit would be more appropriate, but is not available.</p>
<p>Sounds like good ol’ fashioned American ingenuity to me. Good thing you’re not paid to think. You’d starve to death.</p>