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Bing Teacher Appreciation
Most of us know the sorry state of education funding whether we have kids in school or not. I live in IL where the budget is calling for a 17% cut in education spending. Our schools aren’t getting the money from the state like they are suppose to. I won’t find out if Will will get preschool from the public school (even though he qualifies for it with his speech delay) till the middle of August! Madison will be back into school most likely before I find out! Education is in a sorry state in the country.
Bing’s Teacher Appreciation Website helps teachers help themselves. Here’s how it works: a teacher can log onto the DonorsChoose.org website to start a “classroom project” or donation request. Parents and students can then visit the Bing Teacher Appreciation site to leave a comment [up to 5 per visitor] about a teacher who has made a difference in their life, enabling them to receive a $5 giving code to donorschoose.org [one per comment]. Parents and students can then apply the $5 giving code to the “classroom project” of their choice. Classroom projects are created by teachers, so reach out to your childrens’ teachers and encourage them to submit their own projects!
Madison and I embarked on doing this. The Bing site is super easy to use and $5 can add up quite quickly. As my children have learned, every little bit counts. I’ve also taught my children about giving back, so I let Madison choose what classroom project we were going to donate too. I was given a $100 giving code to use. Donorschoose.org is another awesome site (though I wish they would include private schools so my daughters school could benefit from this). There is a classroom project for everyone! Madison picked a classroom of kindergarteners like herself in Texas. We were able to get a science kit for a class of 22 students. What grabbed me was this statement in the description of the project: ”Imagine a class full of little students walking around with a magnifying glass in the garden looking for bugs and looking for the grooves of a leaf.” That is Madison to a tee, so I am very happy to help fund this class!
Make sure you check out the Bing’s Teacher Appreciation Website and write about your favorite teacher and help some kids in the process!
I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Bing and a $100 DonoseChoose.org giving code to facilitate my review. Mom Central also sent me a thank-you gift certificate.
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Why I hate dealing with the school district
I hate dealing with our public school. They make things 10 times harder than they have to be for everything. Seriously. However, with Will aging out of speech therapy in June, I have no choice but to deal with them.
In March, we were suppose to have a transition meeting. The state and the public school were to set up this meeting and let me know the date. Said meeting never happened, so I started making phone calls at the beginning of this month. When I called my service coordinator, I was told the school hadn’t called them back. I waited another week and then I called the school directly.
Getting to the right person wasn’t too tough. However, whatever list we were suppose to be on — we aren’t. I was like “I have a letter from the state saying that we need to get this scheduled”. She then put me on hold for at least 5 minutes and then magically found Will’s paperwork. We scheduled what I think is an evaluation for next Friday. She told me I had to go to our home school and fill out a bunch of paperwork and prove residency. She gave me a list of what I had to bring to do that.
Will and I went this morning to get the paperwork and give them what I needed to prove residency. The paperwork was annoying and long (Just like it was when I had Madison screened for preschool. Seriously, why is it any of their business how much I make and how old Bill and I are). The kicker — I didn’t bring the right information in, because I was told the wrong stuff! Needless to say, I was pissed.
Now, I’m not the first person doing this. I do not understand why 1. they can’t use all the crap I filled out for the state or 2. how the administration building and the school don’t have the same requirements. I was told from the school that they would not send the paperwork over unless I proved residency first (even though I have an evaluation scheduled for next week). Now, the admin people told me that I could fill out the information packet and not to worry about having the other paperwork. I could have screamed.
Now, you’d think the two buildings would know what the other one is doing. Seriously, you;d think they don’t want to give us services. Needless to say, after about 2 hours of running around, I got all the paperwork and went back to the school and turned it in. Now, hopefully they manage not lose it between now and next Friday.
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