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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in FCPS and we get back unused supplies. If there are enough of them, I send them in the following year. The only complaint I have with the lists are the need for 6 composition notebooks when those are hardly ever used. I get that there is one for each of the subjects (Math, Science, LA, and Social Studies) but I am not certain that the one for a journal or whatever the 6th one is used for is needed. DS uses maybe two or three pages and he is done.

I went through his pencil pouch before back to school shopping this year and everything in their was just gross. Pencils down to the nub, busted crayons. Everything looked grey, probably from running up against pencils for a year.

I have no issue with sending in extra highlighters and markers and stuff when the packages are bigger then the request. I am not worried if the teacher gets more of what they ask for. I am guessing that there are kids whose parents don't buy supplies or kids who move into the class in the middle of the year so the extra doesn't go to waste.

I kind of wish that they just kept the left overs and took a quick inventory at the end of the year before making the new list. Adjust the amounts base don what you already have. Or ask if we want them to keep the leftovers and donate them to a Title 1 school that might need them. That way the package of pens that was opened and 1 or 2  removed doesn't come home and is deemed non-donatable by another organization because the package is opened. [/quote]

All of that requires storage space.  Teachers typically have to pack up and vacate their classrooms during the summer so it can be used for summer schoo, camps, etc., and get fairly limited storage space for all of their supplies.  They simply don’t have the luxury of holding onto a box of unused student school supplies because they need ghat space for books or their own school supplies.[/quote]

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