{"id":392994,"date":"2026-07-31T03:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392994\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T03:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:58:10","slug":"back-to-school-why-teachers-need-supplies-before-the-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392994\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To School: Why teachers need supplies before the school year"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUBBOCK, Texas<\/a> \u2014 Across various campuses, many students and teachers are getting prepped for the incoming school year. Within the preparation are the various items asked to have ahead of the first day of class.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve created an Amazon classroom\u00a0wishlist so students have access to basic necessities if they need them,\u201d said Madi Jones, an 8th grade history teacher.<\/p>\n

Jones shared that she is starting her first semester at Terra Vista middle school, but this time last year she was getting ready to teach her class at Dunbar College Preparatory Academy. <\/p>\n

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It was there she received her first taste of what teaching a class as an educator felt like, but there were more things she wanted to be able to provide for her kids outside of the subject of history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came in kind of with that mindset of like, \u2018okay, I need to provide everything for this child because what if they don\u2019t have it?’\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Notebooks or posters, a motivational mirror, prizes and candy to give away, all additional things that teachers, like Jones, don\u2019t have to provide for children, but want to. <\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of these things I never will see again because kids take them or I give them to them. It\u2019s not for us, it\u2019s for the kids. You know, everyone talks about education and there are issues with it, but this is a way we can help,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an issue that Clinton Gill, former educator and member of the Texas State Teachers Association, has seen for years. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey need help because, the district is unable to provide very much of any funding to these teachers. That\u2019s due to the lack of funding from the state level. Because of our legislature not fully and adequately funding public education here in the state of Texas,\u201d said Gill.<\/p>\n

But until changes come in the future, the wishlists, donations or simply checking in on an educator are some of the things that you can do.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe can\u2019t necessarily fix teacher raises, we can\u2019t fix the education system, but you can give back\u2026 There\u2019s so many things that you can do that can help the education system, that can make a more positive environment for the kids, because that\u2019s what everything should be about, is for the kids,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

For Jones, because of the wishlist, many have donated things for her students this school year and she said that while she sent her list to many, she appreciates every person and business that took the time to respond.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did email Joey McGuire and he did donate. Eevie Maes, Mammies, Dr. Chavez and Dr. Brown, professors I had at Texas Tech, it\u2019s been really cool to see the people of Lubbock that do want to give back, you know, it\u2019s so sweet. Like I love it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Jones also highly encouraged that any donation or acknowledgement to her or any other teacher this semester can make a huge difference in their classroom. You can find her wishlist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 Across various campuses, many students and teachers are getting prepped for the incoming school year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-392994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}