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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]120 Ticonderoga pencils? You're exaggerating right? [/quote]

Nope not kidding. 24 pack presharpebed pencils x 5 packs. Last year the teacher only let him have 2 pencils. This communal thing is crazy. We aren’t working hard to spend our money for other people. [/quote]

I’m a teacher. I have to spend my own money on others’ children all the time. When parents don’t provide, I have to purchase. Some years parents are generous and provide what’s on the list. Some years parents provide very little and I have to do bulk orders with my own money. It adds up. I’ve spend over $800 on supplies some years.

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Has it occurred to you that some parents can't afford the ridiculous lists teachers put out like the 120 name brand Ticonderoga pencils when their kids only see 2?

I could not afford it what did the teachers do? Shame me, time and time again. This happened in Fairfax county. I wasn't given anything I had to ask to borrow from other students a piece of paper, a pencil. I was not my fault yet I was chastised for it by EVERY teacher. Now you say you hand things out for those who don't. Well guess what? I never saw that. At all, ever. So I have a very hard time believing that to this day.[/quote]

Yeah… okay.

I was also a product of Fairfax County. Things are VERY different now. Very. Very. Very. I mean VERY different.

No teacher is chastising somebody for having no supplies. They are simply going into the supplies they individually purchased for their students. That may be a pencil. It may be deodorant.

And while I get a whopping $250 deduction from my taxes, know that only covers a small fraction of what I actually spend on my students. [/quote]

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