Comments about ‘Edison Elementary teacher finds help is just a web away’

This article made me a bit sad.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to hear of companies supporting our schools. The part that makes me sad is this great teacher is having to spend her precious time begging for money. Our teachers shouldn't be beggars. They should receive the supplies they need to make our schools the best they can be. Why can't our legislature see this?

Sad.

Teachers and professors are looking out for their students and research by trying to get what they need for the development of the program. Administrators aren't the only one that should be involved in this process. Teachers, as individuals, want to excell and that may be through spending time trying to improve the system. The web is one of the best ways to do that. Sometimes, if it is an administrator, that comes up with the idea, the teachers may not have bought into the system. When other teachers see the success or the involvement of a teacher in a system or program they have developed on their own with help from a company, another teacher, or sponsor, they have some buy in. Teachers do get very good support from the State of Utah, overall, through funding. However, some legiislators have their own agenda and some other elected officials or groups, by putting down teachers as teachers are government employees. Teachers, in Utah, have always been needed and should be thanked for their sacrifices and dedication for their work to give our children the best of minds as they develop from the best of minds, which are teachers have.

Grants are nothing new to the world and teachers should receive more instruction on grant writing and workshops to point them in the direction of possible money. And, to oppose other comments, teachers need to put effort toward it and need to build their classrooms in ways that will make it easier for each teacher to succeed. Every teacher does things a little differently than the rest and if the legislature just steps in and funds it all it STILL won't be perfect.

I hold a lapsed teaching certificate in Utah, if I were in the classroom today I would be doing just this same grant searching in order to help the kids. Good for you Miss Vance!