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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are your kids in elementary? I teach middle school and I rarely get supplies donated. Almost all of the supplies for my room come out of my limited department money or I purchase them myself. Every now and then a parent will send in some tissues or Clorox wipes. I’m grateful for anything I get and rarely have extra, but if I do end up with a surplus I share it with the rest of my team.

In all likelihood the district gave you a generic list of the things they think you should have. The individual teacher probably wasn’t consulted. This drives me crazy, because there is one classroom item I would like my students to have (a particular sized notebook), but it is never on the list, and then parents get annoyed at me because they don’t want to make another trip to the store. So now I just buy the notebooks with my own money and try to get reimbursed. That said, if there is a very specific item listed, it probably means there is some system they are trying to implement across the grade level, so I would try to stick to it.[/quote]

It's a school list and they vary by schools, not a district list.

My kids are elementary and I'm excited for middle school when they can have the "nice" supplies and get to choose whatever color folder and notebook they want. My daughters joke that they only ever get to buy boy colors and that pink or purple are never options for anything.

A lot of the supplies (antibacterial wipes, tissues, baby wipes, large dry erase markers, soap, bandaids) are definitely for the teacher, so I'm surprised middle school teachers don't ever get any. If you need tissues, hit up the elementary schools. Because my kids are brining in 6 boxes each (6 boxes x 20 kids= 120 boxes. Surely they don't go through a box every other day? Where do they even store these in the classroom? It was a MOUNTAIN of tissue boxes at drop off day), 8 dry erase markers, 100 bandaids, etc. I don't mind buying them though. I remember never having soap in my high school bathrooms, and rarely toilet paper so we all brought them in our backpacks.[/quote]

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