An eligible educator can deduct up to $300 of any unreimbursed business expenses for classroom materials, such as books, supplies, computers (including related software and services) or other equipment that the eligible educator uses in the classroom. Supplies for courses on health and physical education qualify only if they are related to athletics.
Don’t business people get to write off lunches and shit if they are “business related”?
And just find me a teacher that spends last than $300 to kit out their classroom. I think the pizza party I threw cost more than that.
It is insane to me that the teachers have to pay for any of it.
My wife is a teacher. About 2k per year of our own money goes to fund basic supplies in her classroom.
By basic I literally mean pens, paper, soap, folders, erasers, backpacks.
We also keep a little food stocked in her classroom for kids with blood sugar and nutritional issues, since it's a very poor income district, but I wasn't including that when I last did her expenses since it comes straight from our grocery budget.
Is that per year?
Considering what I heard how underequipped most schools over there are, it doesn't sound like much.
Yes, per year.
Ever see the drama over parents being asked to send extra school supplies/communal school supplies? That’s because we have to provide them, and if we aren’t asking parents for them, it comes out of our own money.
It’s crushing to have a broke kid ask you for a pencil, then look you straight in the eye while breaking it and then asking for a new one. $300/month was more accurate, on my $2200 monthly take home pay.
