She did her best ok?

Everyone is calling out "it's" but not bough?

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.

Same experience. They're trying to turn education into a pyramid scheme.

I like how the pronoun suggests that the teacher is an actual cat.

We confirmed the lawyer is not a cat, but not the teacher.

With it is own money?

Gender neutral, but forgot their existed.
- *they

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.

In my primary school they did it based on the cleanest classroom. Except all we won was a $2 Freddo frog. The teachers wouldn't let us vacuum though, and rather than just not eat inside and not make a mess, we went around with tape to pick up all the carpet crumbs

Our class party's were always "bring a plate" type parties - parents would give the kids a plate of something to contribute

It was the best.

Potluck is always the best way to have a party, everyone contribute something.
- I remember doing "stone soup" which was kinda the same thing. There's just one big pot of soup and everyone contributes ingredients to it.
- Potluck with friends: Great!
  Potluck with strangers: Disgusting!
Potluck is best luck!

"it's" - nice touch to hint at the underfunded school system

No capital to start the sentence, no period, “bough” instead of bought. Yep.
TBF there’s a whole separate mindset of online communication that seems to demand shitty writing and spelling, like there’s peer pressure to not do it right even if the writer might know better. One would hope in a more formal setting the writer would do better. Maybe.
- too each they're own i guess ¯(ツ)_/¯

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.

My wife and I go out of our way to try to reinforce the fact that we, as parents, very very very much appreciate their teachers. We give them Christmas cards, end of year cards, we donate gifts to them, and any time they send home a letter saying they are running low on supplies we donate something with a thank you card. Hopefully this eventually becomes apparent to the kids that they should appreciate the teachers just as much.

My parents were both teachers, so I feel this lol

Filthy fat cat with two thin slices

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.

Unfortunately, $100 isn't enough to satisfy varying tastes, while also leaving out no one. Aside from that, kids didn't recognize sacrifice, nor were most of them taught the manners to say "No, but thank you."
Honestly, I think you probably should have known.
- Then we teach them?? They're not gonna know if we don't be good role models for them, but doesn't mean they can't learn.

why is the meme referring to the teacher as an "it"

Everyone's so scared of pronouns now, humans are now referred to as non-sentient objects.
- But "it" is a pronoun too.
To further dehumanize it for not buying enough pizza of course. /s
Because it's a cat.
Best way to get it to put the lotion on its skin
In my secondary school we were expected to address all the teachers by name so I tended to use "Er...".

"It's"?

Nonbinary teacher, I guess?
Edit: How about agender and/or null gender then?
- it's = it is
- You would still use "their" there.
- i think u did great with ur guess of nonbinary :3
  one cant really infer gender from pronouns but i think for it/its pronouns, general nonbinary is as fair a guess as agender.
  just because they/them is a more commonly used pronoun for nonbinary ppl, that doesnt mean they wont use whatever other pronouns they vibe with.
  (source: i use it/its and they/them)

It’s? Do you mean their?

it is own money. What's so hard to understand about that? /s
Teachers are subhuman now, didn't you get the memo?
They mean the cat

This feels like it could be a new indicator for the relationship between economy and education... The Pizza Party Slice Index?

Some teachers deserve all the good in the world.

this hurts my heart

It buys the pizza or else is gets the hose again

This made me feel sad and happy for a bit. What a strange emotion...

Is this you robocall? Did you do this and then make a shitpost about it? I salute you.

Its 💀

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.