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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The last few years of my child’s elementary school I stopped donating the crazy amounts of things and no one noticed or cared. They collect a lot at the open house and no one actually sees what you donate. For example, they wanted 2 packs of dry erase markers. Nope. We just got 1. Kid never used even one marker from it all year. They also asked for a dry eraser. I didn’t buy that at all - I will buy if my kid tells me they need one. She never asked the whole year. 10 packs of pencils? Nope. One pack, and we took out a few already to add to her pencil pouch and donated the rest of that one pack. 24 glue sticks? Absolutely not. We bought 6-12, kept 2 in her pouch and donated maybe 4? The rest we keep at home. 3 boxes of Clorox wipes, 75 count. Hell no. We donate one box only. They are pricey. 2 boxes of tissues? Nope, just 1.

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Oh, they noticed you didn’t bring supplies. They just didn’t say anything to you about it. I bet it makes you feel so superior knowing you got one over on that teacher. [/quote]

No they didn’t. There were nearly 30 kids plus parents in the room at the same time for Open House. The teacher did not see what each kid was donating into each of the premade piles set out to collect community supplies such as tissues, wipes, pencils and dry erase markers. In fact, I asked the teacher about certain supplies on the list and she said the list was made before the other 2 teachers left so she didn’t really want some of that stuff. The list had required giant spiral notebooks and 2 binders. Both the giant spiral notebooks and the binders were never used. One of the teachers was going to just keep the unused binders and I specifically asked for them back so we could reuse this year. Good thing I did because they are in mint condition and were $7 each.[/quote]

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