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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is interesting is that even though Somerset Elementary is similar to our home school, each teacher has an amazon wish list.  [/quote]

Amazon Wish List is not a bad idea. Why? Because parents sometimes only want to donate to specific teachers or classrooms. This way at least some donation is coming to the teachers.

MCPS gives $200 per teacher for supplies.  I do not know if this comes to the teachers directly  or it goes to the school?  Also, MCPS has this rule that the teachers must only order stuff  from MCPS approved suppliers, when they want to use their funds for supplies.  The vendors charge an arm and a leg for even the  basic supplies. Someone is making a lot of money from our tax payer money (which MCPS employee is getting kickbacks?)[/quote]

This. Also, the quantities of each item are such that you typically have to pool with another teacher or pool as a department. It’s not that you have $200 and you get to buy whatever you want on this list. It’s that our department has $1000, who needs colored pencils? Okay, we’re buying 20 boxes. Who needs pink eraser caps? Ok, we’ll buy a gross.

If you are the only person who wants something, you need to buy it yourself. In the past, I sometimes saved materials I didn’t need and used them to bribe colleagues to help me get at least one item I wanted. I got two boxes of hanging folders that way. Traded four years of five packs of loose leaf reinforcements.[/quote]

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