Schools leaders say they need to offset cutbacks that have left teachers laid off and schools closed.
At Hart, the school budget left teachers paying for the holiday party pizza out of their own pockets.
The ruthless slashing of social services, and cuts to policing and the NHS have left teachers flailing.
But the Dripping Springs Independent School District has eliminated custodial positions, and that has left teachers with new tasks after the bell rings: sweeping classrooms and taking out the trash.
Much of the way state education now works is traceable to the last government, and a succession of Labour education secretaries who left teachers punch-drunk.
(Math scores rose, too, though when she left teachers voted overwhelmingly to get rid of the program because they said they had found it confusing and ineffective).
The motion also called for an end to performance related pay which, delegates argued, left teachers stuck on £22,000 a year at the bottom of the pay scale - instead of getting increments raising their pay year by year to £37,000.
Education officials in Western Cape Province on Thursday temporarily closed 16 schools, affecting 12,000 students, in Manenberg, an area near Cape Town, because of a spike in gang violence that has left teachers too afraid to go to work.
The Department for Education says the old document "left teachers confused about their powers", and the updated version "unequivocally restores adult authority to the classroom".
This fragmentation legitimated hierarchical power knowledge discourses and has left teachers, as knowers, "bereft of their capacity to intervene (in?) the world" (Britzman 2003, p. 29).
