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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The teacher who refuses to purchase supplies a few pages back has it right. You don't bring in supplies, you don't have supplies at all. That's it. None of this pooling supplies nonsense. If I'm paying $15 for trbfjdndnrid pencils, then my kids should be the ones using them. [/quote]
So a 10 year old, whose parents either don’t have funds or aren’t with it enough to purchase correct supplies, just sits there? Do you think any teacher will allow a kid to just sit there because their parents didn’t send a notebook and pencil? [/quote]

Apparently some do. It's entirely appropriate. Reminder emails and notes home are all that should be required of teachers. Teachers are not parents. This is the parents' responsibility.[/quote]
Right- so when a parent doesn’t answer you or send in supplies, you just let the kid sit there and struggle? It’s not their fault. If I did that as a teacher, and an admin observed me allowing a student to sit there without proper supplies, [b]they’d surely be upset with me.[/b] Counselors have extra supplies & teachers usually purchase extra supplies as well. Not every teacher collects “communal supplies”. I stopped doing that during Covid times and never returned to it. [/quote]

Would an administrator instruct you to purchase supplies for the child?[/quote]

I think it is implied that teachers will take care of kids that need supplies, which is completley unfair!  Society thinks female teachers do this job out of vocation and the goodness of their hearts, because who would do this thankless job for that salary?

-Former private school teacher where most kids did show up with supplies, and I never had to spend any of my tiny salary on them.

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This is, I agree, completely  unfair.

But the unfairness is between the teacher and their employer, not the teacher and the parents. I do not understand how an employer could instruct someone to purchase school supplies or penalize them for not doing so. [/quote]

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