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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my kids was a thumb sucker for most of kindergarten.  Very gross for him to share communal supplies, for both him and his classmates.

My oldest child was young for his grade and for the first semester of kindergarten was still at the tail end of discovering his privates.  He was also an avid nose picker.

The idea of him sharing all of his booger germs and other germs with his classmates just grossed me out.  There wasn't enough hand sanitizer in the world to make that situation right :)  Yet the teacher still did communal supplies.

I think about all the other nose pickers and thumb suckers, kids with pinkeye and kids with warts (one of my kids got warts on his hand from one of his tablemates--communal supplies in 1st grade), pencil chewers and eraser eaters, and I am a big opponent to communal supplies.

What about those poor kids with good hygene, who take care of their supplies and like to keep their crayons sharp and unbroken?  Why should they have to deal with the grossness of communal supplies that are worn out, dirty and broken?  Or the artists, who want to color with a full palette?  Communal supplies are just wrong.

I always buy a bunch of extra supplies (crayons, glue and pencils) for the class, and label the heck out of my kids stuff.  I hope that the teacher will let them keep their own stuff and keep their germs and gross habits to themselves ;)[/quote]

You would have loved it if your kids were in my classroom. When I taught first and second grades I labeled all the crayons and other supplies with each kids' name. Every kid started off with new supplies (I bought supplies for those kids who didn't bring in their own). The kid who broke all their crayons the first week had to use those broken crayons all year. The kids that took care of their supplies were able to use nice supplies. When a kid didn't take care of their supplies and needed more crayons or a pencil they had to go to the used box to get a chewed up pencil or a crayon whose paper wrapper had been ripped off. I never thought it was fair that a kid who respects property and is responsible has to take turns sharing crayons and pencils with other kids seated at the same table who chew pencils or who can't be bothered to pick a crayon up off the floor. When there are too many pencils or crayons or glue sticks and the kids realize it, some kids begin to waste supplies. No one needs over 50 pencils a year. [/quote]

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