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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private school parent here who stumbled onto this from Recent Topics (sorry).

This is unconscionable that PUBLIC schools — which you and I have already paid for — require you to spend your own funds to facilitate access to the curriculum.  Wtaf?

My mother, father, aunt, sister, uncle and 1 cousin are all public school teachers in a Midwestern state, middle class school districts, and I assure you this nonsense doesn’t occur there. They aren’t forced to buy paper FFS. The only things they spend their own funds on are “lifestyle” items for the poor, homeless or very at risk kids who would otherwise come to school without a clean shirt.  Or a “nice to have” piece of equipment that’s a luxury (3D printer)

What is up with the DMV shakedown for essential supplies? Seriously messed up. [/quote]

:roll: That's nice, but nit typical.

I moved a lot when I was young, due to my dad's career.

School 1 (kindergarten): We had to have our own pencils, crayons, scissors, glue sticks, folders, etc.

School 2 (first grade): We had to have our own pencils, crayons, scissors, glue sticks, folders, etc.

School 3 (second and third grades): We had to have all our own supplies, including a protractor, bingo blotter, artist's colored pencils, etc.

School 4 (fourth grade): We had to have all our own supplies.

School 5 (fifth and sixth grades): We had to have all our own supplies.

School 6 ( seventh and eighth grades): We had to have all our own supplies, including a scientific calculator.

School 7 (ninth and tenth grades): We had to have all our own supplies, including a graphing calculator.

School 8 (eleventh and twelfth grades): We had to have all our own supplies,  including a graphing calculator.

I went to eight different schools in a few different states, and we had to supply all our own supplies. I think that the norm![/quote]

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