I was in the later years of elementary school when the American school system really started to become grossly underfunded.
I repeatedly heard my teacher grumbling about copy paper and lack of supplies. A coupe of times, my teacher complained to ME! Expressing how they were stressed out about not being able to get all the stuff they needed to teach and didn't mean to snap at me like that. O_O
I really felt bad for them, they couldn't do anything to stop it.
Been there. In my secondary school, every week a class was selected for performing well (so good feedback for behaviour and homework sort of stuff) so the class got a tenner I think. So at the end of the year when we won so many times we had about 100 quid so the teacher wanted to see what everybody wanted to do and of course the class said party. So the teacher had to plan out how to spread 100 pound on food for a class of 30 and she used her own money too. My form teacher was a legend.
I never appreciated this as a kid even though there was plenty of pizza to go around for everyone back then. If any teachers are in this thread reading this comment, thank you. Thank you. It does make a difference, even if it's a small gesture.
I did a pizza party for the class that made the most improvement on a benchmark test. Paid ~$100 in my own money, tried to get everyone enough for two slices. It wasn’t the right kind of pizza, they were still hungry, I didn’t get the right soda… fuck me for not dropping that cash on a fat j instead.
This is one of those memes like Tom and Jerry. The whole "I sided with Jerry as a kid but now that I'm an adult, he's kind of a piece of shit to Tom." Wisdom isn't inherent of age but man, to those who pay attention it can hit hard.
I remember the teacher would have us bring a few bucks and wed get a slice of pizza during the pizza parties, while we watched some movie on the TV. I guess it must have been some chill out time for the teacher after a long week or something?
During grades 0-4, i had a special program where i would stay at school for 8 hours, but get no homework and had a 1 hour recreation break and big eating break(not to be confused with the shorter one), where we(my class) got served food(once we received moldy bread i think). Each friday we each got a pizza.