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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is ridiculous. Look I clearly don't think teachers should be paying for this stuff OOP and I always bring in everything that's asked for. But we pay very high taxes in MoCo and it's crazy this basic stuff isn't provided for.

I went to very average public schools growing up and we did not have to bring in any of this stuff. Nor did I hear of teachers having to make these bull purchases. It feels like schools were run in a more common sense way back then.[/quote]

I lived in several "good" school districts.  We used old-fashioned stuff.

I remember getting free lined, unbleached brown paper notepads, #2 pencils, fat Crayola crayon sets, and plops of white paste on a piece of paper towel.  The school had communal watercolor paint sets and tempera paint in big jars.

Kleenex was not stocked in classrooms, I remember going to the office and paying 10 cents to get a tissue in 10th grade.

No glue sticks

Very little colored marker use and occasional colored pencil use.  No dry erase or whiteboards.  Only chalkboards.

Occasional composition notebooks.  I feel like we were given these when needed.

Mostly used looseleaf lined paper until high school

No mandatory color coded folders by subject[/quote]

It's almost as if times have changed. 🤯  I'm in my 50's, my parents bought school supplies.

My youngest is 24.  We always had to send school supplies.

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PP.  I get it.  I'm your age.  My point was mainly...we didn't get much, but it was mostly provided.  And, as things changed, and schools got more underfunded, there also emerged new categories of expensive "must haves". E.g., glue sticks, dry erase markers, disinfecting wipes.

I think there is a bit of a cultural expectation that people like to do back to school shopping and get doorbuster sales. And like to donate product.  But a lot don't anymore.  Post-pandemic, people have stopped doing a lot of social nicety busywork.  Attitudes are definitely different.[/quote]

Glue sticks are cleaner.  We had chalkboard and school boards bought chalk.  I don't recall doing a whole lot of cleaning.  Only if someone wrote on their desk lol.[/quote]

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