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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't mind buying consumable items for my child, but it just seems weird to me how every year I'm supposed to be buying her a pair of scissors. This scissors go to school. It never come back. It's just very strange that apparently every year the teacher loses 20 to 30 pairs of scissors. I can understand losing a few pairs but 20 or 30?

Also every year the second graders learn about measuring so they have to buy rulers and bring those into school. And again it would just seem to be more efficient to buy a set of rulers for the class. I'm sure a few would get broken or lost.[/quote]

I’ve never understood this about scissors either. Where do they go?

I understand the need to for parents to purchase supplies but I really wish they would just send a bill for a “classroom fee”  that is optional, pool the funds and shop that way. I hate purchasing and lugging paper towels, reams of printer paper, Kleenex and Clorox wipes every year. With every other parent doing the same. So inefficient.  Obviously the fee would need to be optional but I would happily just write a check. Either the teacher, PTA program can coordinate, or parent volunteers should do the shopping (can probably just do most of it online and have delivered, in fact) and it is cheaper to buy in bulk anyway. [/quote]

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