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[quote=Anonymous]Don't buy it right away.

Wait until November or December.  Then ask the teacher if you can help by sending in anything.

At my school district there are always basic cleaning supplies and housekeeping but the teachers don't get the branded disposable wipes for intra-day cleaning (which they want for the same reasons people have them at home).  And the principal had a shortfall in funds for printer paper.  So she liked to put printer paper reams on the list for every grade so it wasn't a headache for her.

I live in a mediumly o.k. district.  Not wealthy.  About 30-50% of the supplies I purchased according to beginning of the year lists ended up getting wasted.  I would see the piles outside the classroom of supplies the teacher was making available to peers or overflowing cabinets at open house time.

So I started asking in the middle of the fall and responded more generously when ad hoc requests come in.

Teachers need to stop requiring composition notebooks.  They cost a fortune if you don't get them on sale, and they are hard to repurpose.  So far across two kids, only one teacher has managed to keep my kids using them past October.  Marker sets for kids are also underutilized/too plentiful.

Lysol wipes, dry erase markers, and kleenex always get used. And printer paper if requested. 
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