Donors Choose, Teachers Pay

Donors Choose, Teachers Pay

Launched: Summer 2019

Client: Vox Media

Sector: Journalism

Scope of Work: Illustration

Writer: Stephie Grob Plante

The true cost of being a teacher

When you walk into a public school classroom, what do you see? Posters on the walls, baskets of scissors and glue sticks and pencils, dry erase markers, copied and stapled worksheet packets, shelves and bins of books, decorations commemorating the seasons, sometimes bean bag chairs or floor pillows, definitely some kind of big rug for the younger grades. There’s often furniture and a mini-fridge, there are tissues and Clorox wipes and sometimes a class pet.