It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The time of year when educators (like me!) get 25% off nearly everything at Borders (some exceptions apply: periodicals and Sony e-Readers excluded). April 2 – 6 this year. The best is to go in on Friday and they treat you like you’re important to society. Remember: nobody else ever will, so enjoy it while it lasts.
More information on the Borders Educator’s Savings page.
“The best is to go in on
“The best is to go in on Friday and they treat you like you’re important to society. Remember: nobody else ever will, so enjoy it while it lasts.”
This is extremely unfortunate. With the amount of money that families are willing to spend on trying to give their kids an advantage in life, you would think that good teachers would be treated as rockstars.
Mark: You’d think that, but
Mark: You’d think that, but school districts are underfunded, universities don’t want to waste money on instructor salaries when they can give uni president’s more perks instead, and so on. Everyone pays lip service to education, but when it comes down to paying for it, people clam up really quick. It may not be *quite* so bad as I made it out in this post, but it’s pretty bad — turn on Fox News, and I’ll bet someone’s talking right now about how teachers are Destroying America.