I haere mātou me ngā kaiako tokorua ki te hokohoko i mua i tō rāua rā tuatahi. Ko te rārangi o ā rāua taputapu: he pene rākau nunui, he kai mātao, he whakamahana rama me te maha atu.

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E whakamahia ana e Alexandra Daniels, he kaiako o te tau 6 i Montgomery County, Maryland, e rua ōrau o tana ake utu iti i ia tau hei hoko taputapu mō te akomanga.

ROCKVILLE, Md. – Ko te rārangi hokohoko a Lauren Moskowitz te moemoeā o ngā tamariki kōhungahunga katoa. Me whiwhi te kaiako mātauranga motuhake i ngā pēpi matimati, ngā pene rākau nunui me te tioka ara mō āna tamariki 5 me te 6 tau te pakeke.

Tata ki te haora me te tata ki te $140 i muri mai, ka puta atu ia i te Target i te tāone iti o Washington, kī tonu ana ngā putea i ngā taputapu kura.

I a ngā ākonga e hoki ana ki te kura, ko te nuinga o ngā kaiako kei te hoko i ā rātou ake rauemi hei whakarato i ngā akomanga e kī ana i ngā mea katoa, me ngā taiao ako e pai ana mō ngā tamariki.

E ai ki tētahi rangahau a te Tari Mātauranga, e iwa tekau mā whā ōrau o ngā kaiako kura tūmatanui o Amerika i kī mai i utua e rātou ngā taputapu kura mai i ā rātou ake putea i te tau kura 2014-15. Ko te toharite o te whakapaunga a aua kaiako he $479.

I kī ngā kaiako o ngā tāone iti o Maryland e whakarato ana tō rātou rohe i ngā rauemi ki a rātou, engari kāore e roa ake i ngā marama tuatahi e rua o te tau kura. Ahakoa rā, ko ngā mea tino nui anake e hiahiatia ana e rātou.

Ehara i te mea he taputapu kura anake: Ahakoa kei hea rātou e mahi ana, ahakoa he aha ā rātou whiwhinga, ka rongo tonu ngā kaiako i te kore whakaute.

I tētahi Rātapu i te mutunga o Ākuhata, ka haereere a Moskowitz, he kaiako Kura Tūmatanui o Montgomery County, me tana hoa tāne, he kaiako hangarau kura tuarua a George Lavelle, ki Target. E whakaako ana a Moskowitz i ngā tamariki kōhungahunga he hiahia motuhake tō rātou i te Carl Sandburg Learning Center i Rockville, Maryland, he hawhe haora i waho o Washington.

E whakakī ana te kaiako a Lauren Moskowitz i tana waka ki ngā taonga i hokona mai i te hōhipera i Rockville, Md. Target i te 18 o Ākuhata, 2019.

I kī a Moskowitz he nui ake ngā matea o tana akomanga mō ngā tamariki motuhake i ērā atu akomanga, engari ka tohaina e te kaunihera te moni i runga i te kaupapa mō ia ākonga puta noa i te rohe.

"He nui ake te utu mō tō moni i roto i te kura whakaako tamariki i tō te kura hiahia motuhake," te kī a Moskowitz. Hei tauira, i kī ia, he nui ake te utu o ngā kutikuti urutau mō ngā tamariki he whakaroa ō rātou pūkenga nekenekehanga pai i ngā kutikuti noa.

He wāhanga nui te kai i roto i te rārangi a Moskowitz, mai i te Apple Jacks ki te Veggie Straws ki te pretzels, nā te mea he maha ngā wā ka hiakai ana ākonga i ngā wā kāore e tino taka ki te wā tina.

Haunga ngā tauera pēpi mō ngā ākonga kāore i te whakangungua ki te whakamahi i te wharepaku, i hokona e Moskowitz he tohu, he tioka ara me ngā pene rākau nunui – he pai mō ngā tamariki e ako ana i te whakaora mahi. Nāna i utu katoa mai i tana utu $90,000, arā, ko tana tohu paerua me te 15 tau o te wheako.

I ngā rā e rua i muri mai, i mahia e te kaiako pāngarau o te takiwa o Montgomery, a Ali Daniels, tētahi atu kaupapa anō, e oma tere ana i waenganui i a Target me Staples i Greenbelt, Maryland.

Ki a Daniels, ko te waihanga i tētahi taiao akomanga pai tētahi o ngā take nui e whakapau moni ana ia ki ngā taputapu kura. Haunga ngā mea tawhito mō te hoki ki te kura, i hokona anō hoki e Daniels ngā kakara mō tana whakamahana rama Glade: Clean Linen me Sheer Vanilla Embrace.

"He wā whakamātautau te kura tuarua, ā, e hiahia ana ahau kia noho humarie, kia harikoa hoki rātou," te kī a Alexandra Daniels, e whakaako ana i ngā ākonga o te tau ono i te Kura Waenga o te Rawhiti i te Rohe o Montgomery, Maryland.

"Ka tomo mai rātou ki roto i tōku rūma; he āhua pai te āhua. Ka kakara pai," te kī a Daniels. "He wā uaua te kura tuarua, ā, e hiahia ana ahau kia noho humarie, kia harikoa hoki rātou, ā, e hiahia ana hoki ahau kia noho humarie, kia harikoa hoki."

I te Kura Waenga o Eastern i Silver Spring, te wāhi e whakaako ana a Daniels i te pāngarau mō ngā tau ono me te whitu, i kī ia 15 ki te 20 ngā tamariki e tomo ana ki tana akomanga me te kore he taputapu mai i te kāinga. Ka āhei a Eastern ki te whiwhi moni Taitara I mai i te pūtea a te kāwanatanga ā-motu, e haere ana ki ngā kura he nui ngā ākonga nō ngā whānau rawakore.

I a ia e hokohoko ana i Staples me Target, ka hokona e Daniels he pukatuhi, he kōpaki me he pene mā ngā ākonga rawakore.

I roto i tētahi tau, i whakatau tata a Daniels e whakapau ana ia i te $500 ki te $1,000 o tana ake moni ki ngā taputapu kura. Ko tana utu ā-tau: $55,927.

"E whakaatu ana tēnei i te ngākau nui o ngā kaiako, me tā mātou e hiahia ana kia angitu ā mātou tamariki," te kī a Daniels. "E kore rātou e angitu pērā i tā rātou e hiahia ana mēnā kāore i te hoatu ki a rātou ngā taputapu e hiahiatia ana e rātou."

He kaiako a Alexandra Daniels i te kura tuarua o Eastern Middle School i Montgomery County, Md. Nāna ake i whakamahi te moni hei hoko i ēnei taputapu kura.

I a ia e tango ana i tana pire mai i Staples neke atu i te $170, ka tae mai he atawhai ohorere ki a Daniels. I hoatu e te kaiutuutu he hekenga motuhake 10% ki te kaiako mō ngā kaimahi, hei mihi ki a Daniels mō tana mahi ki te hapori.

E whakaatu ana a Ali Daniels, he kaiako pāngarau i te Kura Waenga o Eastern Middle School i Silver Spring, Maryland, i tana rārangi hokohoko mō tana akomanga mō te hoki ki te kura.

Ahakoa kāore i te rite te tapeke o ā rātou whakapaunga ki te toharite o te rangahau a te Tari Mātauranga o te $500, i kī a Daniels rāua ko Moskowitz kāore anō kia oti ā rāua hokohoko.

I whakaaro ngā kaiako e rua ki te hokohoko i runga i a Amazon, i tētahi atu wāhi rānei i runga i te ipurangi. Kei te rapu utu whakaheke mō ngā taonga pēnei i ngā pene korowha mō ngā tamariki e ako ana ki te tuhituhi me te tango meiha hei horoi i ngā papa horoi maroke.

I kī rāua ko ā rāua haerenga hokohoko hoki ki te kura te tuatahi o ngā haerenga maha i utua e rāua anō hei whakakī anō i ngā taonga puta noa i te tau – "he tino wairangi," te kī a Moskowitz.

"Mēnā i utua tika mātou i te tīmatanga, he rerekē tēnā," tana kī. "Kāore mātou e utua kia rite ki te taumata mātauranga o mātou."