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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Because they know you’ll do it.

ES Teacher[/quote]

No doubt, but it just makes my job harder when I stick to my guns and don't spend some money on basics out-of-pocket. No student scissors? Then I need to pre-cut things at home and my students lose out on fine motor practice. No glue? Then we can't have interactive notebooks or build paper creations. No crayons? Then my students are not engaged and invested in their creative projects.

Last year when I ran out of brown crayons in October, students begged all winter for brown for turkeys and gingerbread men, not to mention all year for for skin color crayons. My admin and district certainly couldn't have cared less. This year I've been giving friends and relatives money to help me shop the $.50 crayons at Walmart and multicultural crayons at Office Depot.[/quote]

Shockingly these items are on sale now and parents can purchase them
for their child to use. And please, please, please spare me “but it’s so expensive some parents can’t afford it!” Yes they can but they choose not to. They can simply buy the basics on the list - paper of some kind - pack it composition book, pencil, crayons, scissors, glue - that alone is enough. And even more shocking? The beginning of the school year is every September so it’s not a surprise.

Also for goodness sakes theirs “notebooks” or “lap books” - not needed to learn. Those “creative” projects can be awesome but as a parent most of them looked like nonsense and my kid never ever looked at it. [/quote]

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