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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don’t send it. I send my kids with things but not communal things.[/quote]

Exhibit A: Reasons why teachers ask for extra supplies[/quote]

Or why they spend their own money on classroom supplies for kids who aren’t theirs. [/quote]

Imagine if you had to pay for the ink toner and printing paper to do your job. Add to that, new teacher salaries are usually not high enough for them to live on their own in FFX County. So please, just send in the supplies. Your kid might end up sharing a pencil/marker here or there, it won’t be the end of the world.

Yeah, but the OP’s teacher is asking for too many pencils in my opinion. [/quote]

welcome to federal employee land, except we don't get to deduct it from our taxes.

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My husband is a federal employee. He does not bring his own supplies.

The teacher deduction is significantly less than what teachers spend and also doesn’t impact what I owe on taxes at all. I’ve had a student tell me it was my job to provide her supplies. No, honey, it’s not. I imagine her parents are on this thread.[/quote]

Fed here. We absolutely don’t get supplies. If you want a pen, you buy your own. We don’t even have a credit card for my org to get supplies with. Printing is so restricted you have to have a reason and ask permission.

But I don’t mind sending supplies. Id like to just pay $100 and have the teacher get what she wants, but I’ll follow the lists since that’s not an option. I don’t like communal supplies though. My dd likes the hot pink Ticonderoga pencils, erasers that actually work and so on. So I donate the right amount of pencils and stuff, but then give my dd her favorites to keep at her desk and in her backpack. I remember liking my Lisa Frank folders and hello kitty pens and would have been so upset as a kid to get those confiscated and then been given some plain off-brand one instead. [/quote]

Do you bring in pens for yourself or for 25 people who are not you?

Why would you print things without a reason?  Teachers paying for their own copy paper aren't printing things "without reason".  They are printing things like worksheets for your child to do.  If your job involves receiving forms that public fills out, is creating those forms considered a "reason" that you can print, or do you have to pay for the forms?  [/quote]

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