PSA to school teachers and administrators

[Anonymous]

OP, I have sympathy. I did try it resend books back but the kids are resistant. Combined 18 years of ES and we ended up with a lot of unused crap. I keep the composition books in the kitchen to use for writing attendance notes or whenever I need scrap paper. Lots of very specific things my kids never used, like a small dry erase board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes that's annoying but the real annoyance is that they ask for extra items on the supply list because they need to provide for the deadbeats who show up to school with no supplies, so they take from Peter to provide for Paul. Will they confess to this? No.
I don't think the teachers should pay for any supplies, ever. But I do think the district should instead of pressing us for extras

Yes, it's soooo annoying that maybe a few extra pencils from my child went to a student whose parents can't, or just didn't, buy them school supplies. How will I ever live knowing that I might have spent a couple of extra bucks to help a child out at school?

I usually send tons of extra supplies and don’t get why others who can don’t but I don’t like being asked for 6 composition books and 3 are unused and other ones are barely used. It’s wasteful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next year, send what actually was used this year. Let the teacher know you will send in anything else upon request.

Where my kids went to school we sent in a whole list of supplies and got nothing back. I started sending the bare minimum.

So you're mad the students used the supplies? But also mad if the teacher sends back unused supplies for next year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I have sympathy. I did try it resend books back but the kids are resistant. Combined 18 years of ES and we ended up with a lot of unused crap. I keep the composition books in the kitchen to use for writing attendance notes or whenever I need scrap paper. Lots of very specific things my kids never used, like a small dry erase board.

But...how would you know if your kid used it? My ES kids used dry erase boards daily in math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmm, weird. I'm a teacher and I would never send back expo markers.

+1 my first clue that OP was exaggerating.

[Anonymous]

I've learned not to take the list seriously after our first year @ mcps. Really you probably just need to get headphones, but then some schools use chromebooks only for testing, so you might not need them. School tends to supply everything else, at least for my DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmm, weird. I'm a teacher and I would never send back expo markers.

My kid’s package was unopened. I was surprised by this too- I just figured whatever I sent at the beginning of the year would stay in the clas and be used by the teacher eventually.

Putting everything in the closet to bring back in august……

[Anonymous]

Is there is a disconnect between the supply lists and what teachers really need? I always hear how much teachers are spending of their own money on supplies, yet my DS brought back a ton of unused supplies too- glue sticks, pencils, dry erase markers, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next year, send what actually was used this year. Let the teacher know you will send in anything else upon request.

Where my kids went to school we sent in a whole list of supplies and got nothing back. I started sending the bare minimum.

So you're mad the students used the supplies? But also mad if the teacher sends back unused supplies for next year?

No. That was unclear. In that room they pooled supplies, and the teacher kept them year after year. She had unopened packages of crayons in a bin. That's when I sent bare minimum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After realizing the joke was on us, we stopped buying the lists provided by the school. Sent kids on day 1 with a notebook and pencils, and waited to hear what else they needed. Then buy what the kids say they need.

+1 This is what I did after I wised up.