I’m a teacher. I didn’t say that. It sounds like one lady did, and someone took it as representative of all of us? Happens a lot. |
I’m a teacher. I could care less. Why are you taking one idiot teacher’s post on social media so seriously?! |
DP, also a teacher. I also couldn't care less. ![]() |
If your supplies are in like-new condition such that no one could tell for sure if they’d been used before, no one is going to say a word about them not being new. Send in all the like-new scissors and rulers you want. But when you send in a folder that last year’s teacher wrote a student number on in sharpie, that’s a hassle for this year’s teacher because your kid will probably have a different number in this year’s class and now the teacher has to label over the old one rather than just writing it right on the folder with her own sharpie. And when you send in a box of nearly dried out markers, those will last about a day and a half before they get thrown out again. Half-used packets of loose paper are a hassle to store in the classroom until they are needed without paper falling out and making a mess. |
What happens is that every time they get used, you have one kid who decides to screw it all the way out of the tube and then the stick breaks off, so that one gets thrown away. And then three kids won’t put the caps on properly so the top 1/2” of the sticks dry out and need to be broken off to get to useable glue. And one will just disappear, probably into someone’s pocket and then goes home, or inadvertently thrown away by a student during clean up. |
At most schools, teachers do have input on the lists, but each teacher in the grade may run their classes differently and thus need slightly different supply lists. Parents get pissy when they don’t get the supply lists until three days before school starts along with the teacher assignments, though, so they create a master list for the grade that covers the teacher who asks for and uses four composition notebooks but hardly uses folders or looseleaf, and the teacher who uses looseleaf and folders but barely touches composition notebooks. |
Buy glue sticks in September when they are on sale at walmart, and send them the next year. |
As a parent, I'm getting just as tired of being criticized as much as everyone says the teachers are being criticized. I really don't think it's 'pissy' to want sufficient notice and time to gather all the requested supplies. We're expected to have them on the first day of school and - believe it or not - there are a ton of empty shelves in the stores a few days before the first day of school. Not to mention, parents just might have a few other things to take care of in their lives and getting their families ready for the first day of school, and might even have multiple children with different supply lists to fill. I suspect that by the end of the school year, elementary teachers have a pretty good idea of what supplies they're gonna want and need for the following year. That's when they have to determine the EduKit lists. And I don't think it's unreasonable for a parent to be insulted or question having a brand new box of pencils returned to them and being asked to sharpen them and send them in again, or to ask why a teacher is demanding "new" supplies only and would slightly/barely used/somewhat used but still quite serviceable/ etc. be ok. |
Seriously? I would have never sent them back to school. Eff that. |
I would keep them and send them in next year with a new teacher (one with a brain) |
At a private school this year for K and the watercolor box is on it lol. Also 6 glue sticks and 3 bottles of white glue |
I don’t get the whole communist idea of pooled supplies. |
30. We were asked to provide 30 glue sticks for kinder one year. |
Did you actually read the post you’re responding to before getting so pissy about it? Either you can have advance notice of the supply list wih the risk that you won’t need all of the supplies because your particular teacher doesn’t use something on the grade-wide list, or you can have a list that is tailored to your child’s teacher but not get it until a few days before school starts when you get the teacher assignment. |
The worst is when they ask for a 1 1/2 inch binder. This one year, I couldn’t find it anywhere. |