Teachers Pay Teachers Reviews

As a teacher I appreciate teachers pay teachers for what it is. I have found some awesome free resources on the site! As a seller, I'm highly disappointed that they feel the need to take 60% of what I earn from what I make myself from scratch! I just can't with these big companies taking advantage of the people that make the money for them. I'm just going to post my things up for free! From a $2.00 sale, I was paid out $. 80. Ridiculous. I'd rather give it away!

Their policies directly discriminate against populations who wish to identify in specific ways or share specific parts of history they deem "harmful or outdated". History is never "outdated" and how someone identifies is not "harmful"?

What is deemed harmful or outdated is based on white Americans who do not share the same history, ethics, morals or understandings on other countries histories...

This always freezes, have ALOT of glitches and bugs, and sometimes my work dosent save. I mean, I dont like this compared to other websites.

This company engages in intellectual censorship. Although attempting the noble aim of preventing potentially harmful or insensitive content to be sold on its site, this company errs on the side of thoughtless suppression and censorship. This should concern all educators, as censorship has always been framed as a measure to "protect societal norms." In this case, the company zealously attempts to uphold their ideas about "social justice" by simply suspending any content at all that contains red flag terms. As an example, a lesson which asked students to read an excerpt from Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (one student taking role of reporter and one editor "Gandhi" was described as "trivializing trauma of imperialism by asking students to role play as "victims." Not only does this show the ignorance of TpT to history, but also how superficial their efforts are to achieve social justice at the cost of draconian suppression of content.

I bought the lit unit for Slacker by Gordon Korman. I sat down to use the questions and was surprised to see the chapter questions and vocab work was mislabled. The questions for Chapter one did not match the novel. Totally useless. And since it is a digital download, no refund. This was not cheap, I paid $24 for gobbledy gook. Won't use this seller again, ever.

PS I only gave it one star because I had to, it doesn't deserve a star.

Teachers Pay Teachers has some fantastic content on their site and I don't begrudge teachers for buying them. However I do want to say that teachers pay teachers rips off their content providers heavily. To share as an example, I created a set of resources for my AP class. About 6-10 pages of content each, I decided to help my fellow teacher by selling them for $1.50 a set or $3-4 for a Unit packet. I didn't want to charge fellow teachers a crud ton of money. In the last year, I had around $50 gross sales. My Net return was $22. They took over half of the money I earned for people providing my services. They took out 21.95 for their "service" to me. They then took out a transaction fee of 30 cents for every transaction under $3.00 (So almost everything I created). Then they charged me 42 cents in service fees to send my money to paypal.

When you pay for a 150.00 package, note that the author might be getting $60 in that trade. So buy cautiously.

I enjoy the digital options to the activities. It allows for diversity and versatile learning strategies.