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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School supplies should be school supplies. No baby wipes, no Clorox wipes, no tissues, no paper towels. Use what the school provides and what taxpayers have already PAID FOR! she should have cleaning spray they have toilet tissue they have paper towels. It’s very obnoxious to request parents to spend more money because you prefer something better than what’s already been purchased. This has to stop. [/quote]

Teachers are not requesting “better” items… they are simply requesting the needed items that THEY DON’T HAVE or DON’T HAVE ENOUGH OF. No one is holding a tissue drive because they have a brand preference, they are holding a tissue drive because they have NO tissues! Same with cleaning supplies. There are not enough custodians to do the deep cleaning that is needed to maintain clean classroom spaces, so that falls to classroom teachers. Teachers are requesting these supplies because they don’t have them ! You seriously think all the teachers out there that ask for these items are asking because they are being snotty about a particular brand of tissue ?! [/quote]

What a teacher on this thread said was she asks for wipes from parents because that’s easier than requesting paper towels in advance and using the provided cleaning spray. She prefers Clorox wipes and so asks the parents.[/quote]
She prefers the Clorox wipes because the school provided paper towels suck for actual cleaning. Imagine using something equivalent to those super thin free gas station napkins to clean your house. Subpar cleaning result and lots of wasted time and effort. That is why there is a preference for the Clorox wipes, because they quickly and effectively get the job done.[/quote]

Sure, but the PP ahead of you is saying that teachers aren’t requesting supplies because they don’t like what’s been given— which is exactly why you’re saying they’re requesting supplies.

I am sure you are right that Clorox wipes are nicer. The question is why it’s a parents job to buy a teacher nicer supplies. [/quote]

I think it’s twofold: there are subpar cleaning supplies provided and in addition, there are not enough supplies provided to begin with. So not only do the tissues/paper towels suck so you need to use 4x as many of them, there were never enough to begin with so they run out quickly. Again, if teachers are consistently asking for these items, year after year and it keeps happening across the county, isn’t this a question that should be directed towards leadership rather than individual teachers? This is not some one-off situation, as noted it is pretty pervasive across the county.[/quote]

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