School supply shopping time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but buy what you want your child to have, not what is on those idiotic lists.

4kids, multiple schools, and I've always gotten what my kids actually needed, not some teacher's wet dream of what they should have.

Yeah, teachers are so dumb! They have no idea what kids in their classes need! What morons!

omg our school pools everything so this would not work. Wow! It's the team of teachers for each grade that comes up with the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but buy what you want your child to have, not what is on those idiotic lists.

4kids, multiple schools, and I've always gotten what my kids actually needed, not some teacher's wet dream of what they should have.

Yeah, teachers are so dumb! They have no idea what kids in their classes need! What morons!

omg our school pools everything so this would not work. Wow! It's the team of teachers for each grade that comes up with the list.

Right? I'm the OP, and a newbie at this, but I know everything will be pooled thanks to the smart posters on DCUM. Just follow the rules...

[Anonymous]

I'm not buying school supplies for the class. I buy for my kids, what I think they need. The school can supply their own hand sanitizer and tissues, for what I pay in taxes...

[Anonymous]

FYI... Not all teachers gather school supplies from students for communal purposes. In my classroom, I do the opposite. If materials aren't already labeled, I use a permanent marker to write the child's name on each supply they brought to school. In my opinion, if parents pay for supplies, those supplies belong to their children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not buying school supplies for the class. I buy for my kids, what I think they need. The school can supply their own hand sanitizer and tissues, for what I pay in taxes...

But they don't, which means the teacher does, or other parents. But keep on free riding, if that makes you happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not buying school supplies for the class. I buy for my kids, what I think they need. The school can supply their own hand sanitizer and tissues, for what I pay in taxes...

But how do you accomplish this without making a spectacle (insisting your kid's stuff must be used only by him/her)? I don't like the pooling of supplies, but I'm not outraged by it or anything.

My strategy is to buy most stuff at Target or Walmart then buy whatever I couldn't find on Amazon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not buying school supplies for the class. I buy for my kids, what I think they need. The school can supply their own hand sanitizer and tissues, for what I pay in taxes...

But they don't, which means the teacher does, or other parents. But keep on free riding, if that makes you happy.

What do you think happens to the supplies you send in? Do you think the teachers pool all the supplies BUT yours? Should the teacher skip your kid in the hand sanitizer line and tell him to wipe his nose on his shirt, since you don't believe those supplies are necessary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just buy everything on Amazon. So easy.

+1. Spent 20 min 2 weeks ago and thats it!

[Anonymous]

hand sanitizer is bad for you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:hand sanitizer is bad for you

just about every public school uses it unless you have a medical note stating your child can not use it.

[Anonymous]

Here is what I know: the majority of FCPS (elementary) pool supplies. They don't really mention this on website. Call the school and just ask. It may depend on what school, county , private or public you are in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not buying school supplies for the class. I buy for my kids, what I think they need. The school can supply their own hand sanitizer and tissues, for what I pay in taxes...

I'm a HS teacher. We don't "do supplies."

However, I supply my kids' ES teachers with extras throughout the year.

And guess what, Scrooge?

I pay taxes, too!

[Anonymous]

The school never supplies tissues, hand sanitizer, or cleaning wipes. If parents don't bring these items the teacher has to buy them. I've taught 14 years in 3 different districts. I'm very thankful when parents donate supplies!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thank you for so much good advice already. My weird item is a clipboard. I will try to find that first.

To the PP asking about earlier threads, I think they were circulating last fall, but were a lot of vents about how everything gets redistributed, so don't let your kid pick out pretty pony folders and think she'll get to keep them!

Also, lots of good advice about not getting the cheap supplies, but your kids might end up with cheap supplies someone else bought :-/ Also, expect to be hit up again.

Finally, a good question about what these schools do with all these scissors! I will be asking that at the end of the year (unless it is my kid that keeps losing them--possible.)

I wonder about that too! This is the fourth year I've been asked for scissors. Do they lose that many every year?

Teacher here--At the end of the year, my students take the contents of their pencil boxes home with them. This includes their scissors. However, I always have a handful of students who lose or break their scissors and don't bring in a new pair. They borrow from me (I have several loaners) or from a neighbor.

[Anonymous]

What do parents of lefties do about scissors? Do you send in lefty scissors? I have 2 lefties and I have always sent in right handed (because I assumed they were communal), then my kid brings in their own left handed pair (that we label) and they keep in their desk or backpack or wherever. Is that what others do?