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Thank you for buying books for the media center. While media specialist do get a budget to buy books there is usually a budget freeze by December so they are not able to purchase books that come out from January to May. [/quote]

We buy a lot of supplies too but it doesn't nearly cover what is needed daily.  There is no excuse given the waste that goes on that teachers are not given the supplies they need.  We have no issue helping the teacher but at our school the PTA only does pet projects and I have yet to hear of them doing something like giving the teachers even a few hundred each for extra supplies and decor.  I refuse to donate to the PTA because of it.  We buy books for the classroom library, not media center.[/quote]

Well, maybe you should get active on your PTA and try to change their "pet projects."  My school's PTA has a priority of giving each teacher 200$/year for supplies.[/quote]

NP here. We are a huge school with 1200+ students.  We have very limited parent involvement with the PTA and so our budget is only around 6K.  There is no way we can give teachers $200 each (I know W schools do that - that's great), but the setting up of a wish list in Amazon.com is a great idea. [/quote]

Amazon is fine, but we actually found that the books came out cheaper through Barnes and Noble!  Strangely.

We set up a book sale through Barnes and No Or this year (instead of Scholastic) and it worked well.  Parents could easily order books online with the Book Sale code and use the Barnes and Noble online coupon codes.  Much less of a hassle than Scholastic and we made more money with less effort.  Also got more books donated to the Media Center. [/quote]

Barnes and Noble bookfair will not work for us for a number of reasons - we are not close to a barnes and noble, most of our kids are from poor families and like to not buy books but instead they like to buy stationary for $1 and we will not be able to reach a majority of our parents because they do not have email addresses or access to the internet.   However, I am glad that this is a viable option for other affluent schools. Good for them!

I think Amazon.com wishlist for classroom supplies is a great idea.  The thing is that MCPS should not force the teachers to use the $200 on their vendors.  If they give the money to the teachers for classroom supplies, the teachers can spend it the way they want to.   Maybe they will even economize and will not need to buy a stapler every year.  I do  not worry about teachers pocketing the amount, because usually they are the ones who are paying out of pocket. [/quote]

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