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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never understood the supply list. Why?[/quote]
Because kids need stuff like crayons and paper and scissors to do their school work. What's so hard to understand?[/quote]

Right -- but why is each family buying supplies? It's really inefficient. Where I grew up, the supplies were part of the school's budget.[/quote]

The olden days! The big box of scissors that would get passed around, the huge tub of white paste that tasted minty. The teacher would scoop a blob of paste onto a square of paper and put one on each table to share. There were also boxes of crayons, rulers, compasses, and rough paper. You were taught to be careful and frugal with the supplies. If you wanted anything fancier you brought your own.

However, I've had kids in the Fairfax system for 25(!) years now, and they've always had to buy school supplies and pool them for most of elementary. I'm convinced the teachers are selling/trading the scissors on the black market every year ("10 pairs Fiskars: will trade for 12-pack Expo markers"), because a halfway decent pair of scissors lasts decades.[/quote]

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