Friday, January 10, 2014

Teachers Offered Personal Loans to Buy School Supplies

by Lisa Wade, PhD, Sociological Images: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/01/08/nevada-offers-teachers-personal-loans-to-buy-school-supplies/

If you’re looking for just one image that says a thousand words about what’s wrong with America, here’s a contender. It is a screenshot of the website for the Silver State Schools Credit Union:

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Yep, it’s an invitation to K-12 teachers to go into debt to do their job. Speechless.
 
Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

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