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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach kindergarten and I'd say I spent at least $1K my first year and maybe $500 for the next few years. Now it's less than $250 each year. I had to buy everything except classroom furniture and basic school supplies that the students brought it. Classroom library books, bulletin board stuff for 4+ board, classroom posters, mailboxes, pencil cases, classroom rug, storage containers, classroom incentives, manipulatives, clipboards, ink for my color printer, my printer, etc. We don't have a PTA so it's all on us. [/quote]

Why didn't you ask for Classroom book donations? Our school does this and the response is overwhelming. 
We always send our kid with pencil cases, etc based on the supply list. Even the incentives are on the list.

Use your head. [/quote]

Why do you have to be so rude?  This poster may work in a school that limits what they can put on a supply list or ask parents for. Instead of assuming stupidity, consider that there may be factors that you don’t know about. [/quote]

Or a lower income area where people rarely buy books and then are unlikely to want to give them away.[/quote]

NP - There are lots of charities that will donate books to schools and libraries; teacher wish lists that can be funded by anyone, free-cycle and nonprofit grants.  Teachers also need to let parents know that their school district is not supplying the needed items.  Districts do this because they know teachers will make up the difference.

Teachers - here you go...
https://www.readingrockets.org/article/search-free-books
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Please understand that in some districts, teachers are forbidden from telling parents what they need in the classroom.  Forbidden as in lowering your rating which can lead to being dismissed.  I have gotten many books from different charities or from parents in MY neighborhood (not the one I teach in).  Many books that come off of free cycle or other places are either not at my grade level, are old and out of date or are unusable for other reasons.  For example, Half Price Books will give any teacher who asks boxes of books.  I was so excited when I got 4 boxes of books.  They asked my grade level and said they'd give me books at that level.  90% of those books had to be given away to someone else.  Almost none were for my grade level.  I was grateful to have the 10% that worked though.

Districts which don't provide what teachers need are doing so because the budget is so limited, not because teachers will make up the difference.[/quote]

No, the budget is not limited, it is allocated to other things.  And some of the money needs to be re-allocated.[/quote]

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