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[quote=Anonymous]Honest question here - FTM of a 2-year-old so I really am this clueless: why are parents buying all these basic classroom supplies instead of the schools? How did this come about? I've been reading all these threads thinking, WTF? As a kid we used those ancient, crummy, but heavy-duty old craft scissors with green rubber handles, huge pots of paste, oaktag paper, etc. - all provided by the school. How is it possible that every parent needs to buy scissors all the freaking time? This just seems weird to me, and I wonder when this shift happened. Granted I went to public school in a middle- to upper-m.c. New England suburb, so maybe that's the entire answer. Is this every public school in every DC/MD/Va district? I can see providing craft supplies for your own kid, but bulk offerings for the whole school? [/quote]
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