seekingarrangement

 

I swear some stuff you read on the internet just make you shake your head.

 

According to a strange article on AJC.com , school teachers across the U.S. are turning to the internet for extra money.

 

The service SeekingArrangement is a nationwide online “dating” service that matches “Sugar Daddies” with “Sugar Babies,” many of whom are college students trading their youth, beauty and attention, sexual and otherwise, for cash and other expressions of gratitude from wealthy men in what the company calls “mutually beneficial” relationships.

 

The founder of the dating service connects the rise in teacher “Sugar Babies” to classroom cuts and decries that teachers have to reach into their own pockets – or those of Sugar Daddies” — to pay for classroom supplies. According to the company, the average registered public school teacher on the site is between the ages of 28 and 33 and asks for $3000 a month in financial assistance.

 

Here is the official release from the company:

 

Is Daddy hot for teacher? 40,000 public school teachers are currently seeking financial assistance from sugar daddies according to SeekingArrangement.com.

 

Atlanta School Public School System ranks high for employing teachers who are moonlighting as Sugar Babies with 311 teachers.

 

Top Five School Districts For Sugar Teachers

 

1. Philadelphia City School District

2. Miami-Dade School District

3. Los Angeles County School District

4. Clark County School District

5. New York Public School System

 

The Sugar Daddy dating website released the statistic after noticing an influx of teachers signing up last month, prior to heading back to school.

 

“It’s unfortunate what is happening in the American public school systems,” comments Brandon Wade, Founder & CEO of SeekingArrangement.com. “Teachers are placed under enormous pressures to mold the young minds of tomorrow, but are expected to do so with less wages than their peers, and by working longer hours. Then those same teachers are forced to work in underfunded schools, and marginally supplied classrooms.”

 

The National School Supply and Equipment Association published their annual study in June about teachers’ out-of-pocket spending, reporting that the average teacher spent at least $485 on school supplies for their classroom last year. Meanwhile, the Economic Policy Institute reports that from the period of 1979 to 2003, weekly wages of female teachers have eroded at a rate of 18.5% when compared to other similarly educated and experienced workers.

 

 

So, are teachers out here “hoe-ing” for extra cash to buy school supplies? Apparently, they are. SMH. What is the world coming to?