Welcome to Season 4 episode 6 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.

I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth

into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the

week ahead. Today I'm going to share some thoughts on why teacher authors such

as those who sell on teachers pay teachers don't give everything away for free and why you

shouldn't either. Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript links to

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That's K-I-D-O. So every now and then I get a comment on one of my books or my printables that I sell on

teachers by teachers or on the 40 hour

teacher work week club that says something along the lines of this it's a

shame that teachers charge money for everything now.

I remember the days when teachers would give everything away for free.

Sometimes they even add insult to injury by saying,

if you really wanted to help teachers, if you really

cared about kids, you wouldn't be charging for this. As if anyone who wants to

make a difference is supposed to do it for free and the only people who

deserve to get paid are the people who aren't helping others.

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