How much are you spending to make your kids' fall DL experience better?
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Anonymous
| You guys are so dramatic! |
Anonymous
| More sweatpants so we don’t have as much laundry. |
Anonymous
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New desk for family room and two more office chairs (one old one finally gave out after so much use this spring.)
+1 on the sweatpants. DS grew about 4 inches this spring. 
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Anonymous
Same. But did this in the spring as they both needed new Chromebooks. That's been all. We've probably been saving money more than spending it. |
Anonymous
| Curious -- for the person hanging a whiteboard for students (not the teacher) -- how will your kids use the whiteboard? |
Anonymous
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Nothing. I pay taxes for a public school education and they’ll get what they get this year, which unfortunately sounds like it will be minimal again. We have one computer and they will share it. My mom will help with the logistics of getting in the zoom calls but can’t expect much else from her. If needed they can repeat next year.
- single mom |
Anonymous
| Probably no pod. Going to buy a desk and chair and some organizational supplies -- folders, desk organizer, etc. New headphones with a built-in mic. Already bought a new printer and small white board. |
Anonymous
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Kid going into 1st grade. I ordered a bunch of books from the well trained mind last night (just the reading recs) and that cost $460.
Will need to buy a desk chair and tons more homeschooling books. Can't see how DL 1st grade can work out. I would love to hire a tutor (or governess as one hilarious DCUMer put it) but can't afford to 
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Anonymous
| We spent about $500 per kid to purchase desks, chairs and chromebooks. The desks had been promised pre-COVID, DL just made us follow through. |
Anonymous
| As of right now, I plan to spend whatever some new pens, pencils and notebooks cost. Both kids already have desks and chairs. One has and the other will get a school issued laptop. If it becomes necessary down the line to buy some organizational items we’ll deal with that then. |
Anonymous
Well-trained mind is an excellent program. |
Anonymous
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We got dd a new desk, which we had been planning on anyway. Keyboard, monitor, mouse, wireless headphones.
For our sophomore ds, we may get a tutor or two; we’ll play that by ear after classes start. We’ll consider a pod for dd (5th grade) if any close friends are doing one. It’s not a necessity for us. |
Anonymous
They want it to write out problems for math or science, and I think also just for fun LOL. They were very enthusiastic about it and I couldn't see any reason why not. I got a bunch of different erasable markers in a huge variety of colors. We have 1 still in elementary and 2 in middle school. It seemed like a relatively small expense for the amount of excitement they had about it so we'll see how it works out! 
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Anonymous
Please see if your school can loan you another computer. Please ask. Schools want this to work for the kids. Signed, a teacher |
Anonymous
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1 new laptop
Reams of printer paper Printer ink Free tutoring from Mom and Dad No pods Free therapy thanks to big friendly fluffy white dog, and cute fluffy yellow chicks that we’re renting (incubation, hatching, etc). We’ve done it before, it’s the best when you wake up in the morning and you hear them gently cheeping! |