Reply to Sprout School Supplies

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Sprout School Supplies - worth it?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been buying it myself for more than 8 years. It is at least 2/3 more expensive than if you did it on your own, including buying all name brand items while doing it on your own. You have the list MONTHS ahead of time so the, “I’m too busy...,” is crap. Also, teachers generally don’t even pick the name brand so the person who said her teacher friends want certain brands - that’s not true. I’ve filled out the form for this many times and we aren’t picking the brands. I prefer Ticonderoga and Crayola, but this year our supplier (Staples) has their generic brand inserted in the lists for most items. We do care about folder colors because we will tell the kids to get their blue folders to get ready for science, but not the shade of the colors.

[/quote]

Well, every school is different.   I was the person who coordinated the supply list from the teachers and Sprout.  We had many classes that were adamant they wanted a name brand, even if it costs mores   Such as Elmer glue sticks over teh generics, Expo dry erase versus the generics, name brand storage bags because the generics never sealed properly...  [/quote]

If the teachers want expensive expo dry erase markers, they can pay for them with their own money, same with generic storage bags... the cheap ones work perfectly fine for us and if they are good enough for us, that's what they get.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics