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I'm OP, and I think if they want families to buy all this extra classroom stuff, then the kits sort of make sense, so it's not the kids themselves I am pointing out, it's the need for the kits themselves.  But my bigger question was why the parents have to buy all this stuff.  Sure, I can see where they want me to supply my own child's crayons or pencils, but I was surprised that parents have to buy disinfecting wipes or hand soap or other things that to me are the school's job of stocking the classroom.  The school, NOT the teacher.  If indeed this is the norm, why not just charge each family a $20 activity fee and have the school purchase all of this in bulk rather than in individual kits? Probably even easier and more cost efficient, assuming indeed that it now falls on the families to supply the school with the basics.

We'll do it when the time comes, but I'm also like the PPs that loved every year picking out my folders and whether I wanted #2 Barbie pencils or #2 Strawberry Shortcake pencils. Not a big deal, definitely a first world problem, still a surprise to this FTM.[/quote]

If you don't want to buy the disinfecting wipes or hand soap, then don't.

[b]I don't want the teacher to have to buy them, so I do[/b].[/quote]

I'll buy them.  I'm just not understanding why a school system that spends $20K/yr per pupil requires me or the teacher to buy them instead of providing them.  I can see if a teacher wants to do a particular project with the class that requires materials outside the normal scope, but this sort of thing stocking the basics for an entire school surprised me.[/quote]

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