A December of Wishlists

Teacher Wishlists

Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE a holiday wishlist. Preferably making them, but especially as I get older, FULFILLING THEM.

For this advent, I’m going to share a series of wishlists that enable you to participate in making someone else’s holiday dreams come true.

Today: teacher wishlists.

Whenever I’m reminded that teachers in America (an America that just elected the pawn for Project 2025, which seeks to DISSOLVE the DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION) often spend their own money buying classroom supplies, I am arrested by their commitment to their students, and undone by how painful I find it that they, and these kids, are in this position.

One of my greatest pieces of grief, besides the climate implications, about the stated intentions of the incoming administration, is that every single piece of Project 2025 exhibits outright hatred, in practice and policy, for poor children in America.

To that end: today’s wishlist is a compilation of teacher’s wishlists for their classrooms that I got via the great Emily Amick. You can pick the teacher’s wishlist you most want to contribute to. They tell you a bit about their context and their beloved students.

Let’s light up these classrooms, and show our young people we love them madly. We love them so much that we want them to be able to participate fully in their democracy, which depends entirely on their education.

Love,

Perrin