Anonymous wrote:School supplies should be school supplies. No baby wipes, no Clorox wipes, no tissues, no paper towels. Use what the school provides and what taxpayers have already PAID FOR! she should have cleaning spray they have toilet tissue they have paper towels. It’s very obnoxious to request parents to spend more money because you prefer something better than what’s already been purchased. This has to stop.

It’s very obnoxious to request teachers spend their own time/money/effort because FCPS is unable to supply basic cleaning and hygiene supplies. Rather than directing your anger towards the teacher who is asking for needed items to do their job, direct it towards figuring out why so many teachers across the county feel the need to request these items. When this issue is so widespread and occurs at both low and high income schools all across the county, stop & think for a minute why that might be!

Anonymous wrote:School supplies should be school supplies. No baby wipes, no Clorox wipes, no tissues, no paper towels. Use what the school provides and what taxpayers have already PAID FOR! she should have cleaning spray they have toilet tissue they have paper towels. It’s very obnoxious to request parents to spend more money because you prefer something better than what’s already been purchased. This has to stop.

Teachers are not requesting “better” items… they are simply requesting the needed items that THEY DON’T HAVE or DON’T HAVE ENOUGH OF. No one is holding a tissue drive because they have a brand preference, they are holding a tissue drive because they have NO tissues! Same with cleaning supplies. There are not enough custodians to do the deep cleaning that is needed to maintain clean classroom spaces, so that falls to classroom teachers. Teachers are requesting these supplies because they don’t have them ! You seriously think all the teachers out there that ask for these items are asking because they are being snotty about a particular brand of tissue ?!

Anonymous wrote:Why are the parents required to pick up the slack for others kids?

It has been established that it is not required. Next Q.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, schools should provide these things. Neither parents nor teachers should have to do it. But the schools don’t. So, acc to you, it’s up to the teachers.

Amazingly petty.

According to me, it’s up to the school. If the school isn’t providing these things they have a responsibility to tell the parents.

In your little world that would probably work. But in the real world, it doesn’t. And your response is to let the teacher pay.

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Anonymous wrote:The teacher who refuses to purchase supplies a few pages back has it right. You don't bring in supplies, you don't have supplies at all. That's it. None of this pooling supplies nonsense. If I'm paying $15 for trbfjdndnrid pencils, then my kids should be the ones using them.

So a 10 year old, whose parents either don’t have funds or aren’t with it enough to purchase correct supplies, just sits there? Do you think any teacher will allow a kid to just sit there because their parents didn’t send a notebook and pencil?

Apparently some do. It's entirely appropriate. Reminder emails and notes home are all that should be required of teachers. Teachers are not parents. This is the parents' responsibility.

Right- so when a parent doesn’t answer you or send in supplies, you just let the kid sit there and struggle? It’s not their fault. If I did that as a teacher, and an admin observed me allowing a student to sit there without proper supplies, they’d surely be upset with me. Counselors have extra supplies & teachers usually purchase extra supplies as well. Not every teacher collects “communal supplies”. I stopped doing that during Covid times and never returned to it.

Would an administrator instruct you to purchase supplies for the child?

I think it is implied that teachers will take care of kids that need supplies, which is completley unfair! Society thinks female teachers do this job out of vocation and the goodness of their hearts, because who would do this thankless job for that salary?

-Former private school teacher where most kids did show up with supplies, and I never had to spend any of my tiny salary on them.

This is, I agree, completely unfair.

But the unfairness is between the teacher and their employer, not the teacher and the parents. I do not understand how an employer could instruct someone to purchase school supplies or penalize them for not doing so.

Whether it’s right or wrong.l, whether you understand it or not, that’s reality for many teachers. Some parents recognize reality and support their child’s classroom experience, even though they are not required to do so.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, schools should provide these things. Neither parents nor teachers should have to do it. But the schools don’t. So, acc to you, it’s up to the teachers.

Amazingly petty.

According to me, it’s up to the school. If the school isn’t providing these things they have a responsibility to tell the parents.

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Anonymous wrote:The teacher who refuses to purchase supplies a few pages back has it right. You don't bring in supplies, you don't have supplies at all. That's it. None of this pooling supplies nonsense. If I'm paying $15 for trbfjdndnrid pencils, then my kids should be the ones using them.

So a 10 year old, whose parents either don’t have funds or aren’t with it enough to purchase correct supplies, just sits there? Do you think any teacher will allow a kid to just sit there because their parents didn’t send a notebook and pencil?

Apparently some do. It's entirely appropriate. Reminder emails and notes home are all that should be required of teachers. Teachers are not parents. This is the parents' responsibility.

Right- so when a parent doesn’t answer you or send in supplies, you just let the kid sit there and struggle? It’s not their fault. If I did that as a teacher, and an admin observed me allowing a student to sit there without proper supplies, they’d surely be upset with me. Counselors have extra supplies & teachers usually purchase extra supplies as well. Not every teacher collects “communal supplies”. I stopped doing that during Covid times and never returned to it.

Would an administrator instruct you to purchase supplies for the child?

I think it is implied that teachers will take care of kids that need supplies, which is completley unfair! Society thinks female teachers do this job out of vocation and the goodness of their hearts, because who would do this thankless job for that salary?

-Former private school teacher where most kids did show up with supplies, and I never had to spend any of my tiny salary on them.

This is, I agree, completely unfair.

But the unfairness is between the teacher and their employer, not the teacher and the parents. I do not understand how an employer could instruct someone to purchase school supplies or penalize them for not doing so.

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Anonymous wrote:The teacher who refuses to purchase supplies a few pages back has it right. You don't bring in supplies, you don't have supplies at all. That's it. None of this pooling supplies nonsense. If I'm paying $15 for trbfjdndnrid pencils, then my kids should be the ones using them.

So a 10 year old, whose parents either don’t have funds or aren’t with it enough to purchase correct supplies, just sits there? Do you think any teacher will allow a kid to just sit there because their parents didn’t send a notebook and pencil?

Apparently some do. It's entirely appropriate. Reminder emails and notes home are all that should be required of teachers. Teachers are not parents. This is the parents' responsibility.

Right- so when a parent doesn’t answer you or send in supplies, you just let the kid sit there and struggle? It’s not their fault. If I did that as a teacher, and an admin observed me allowing a student to sit there without proper supplies, they’d surely be upset with me. Counselors have extra supplies & teachers usually purchase extra supplies as well. Not every teacher collects “communal supplies”. I stopped doing that during Covid times and never returned to it.

Would an administrator instruct you to purchase supplies for the child?

I think it is implied that teachers will take care of kids that need supplies, which is completley unfair! Society thinks female teachers do this job out of vocation and the goodness of their hearts, because who would do this thankless job for that salary?

-Former private school teacher where most kids did show up with supplies, and I never had to spend any of my tiny salary on them.

Our daughter switched to private a year ago. I’m so glad we’re not around these self-centered stingy parents anymore.

Good God, make it easier for teachers to do their jobs, it will only benefit your children.

Clorox wipes are a new thing in the last 15 years or so. A bottle of 409 and some paper towels will do the trick and are a lot cheaper. The school does have paper towels.

Why are the parents required to pick up the slack for others kids?

Anonymous wrote:No chlorox wipes are going to keep k-2 graders from sneezing on each other.

Nor will they prevent the rise of super bugs.

Yes, schools should provide these things. Neither parents nor teachers should have to do it. But the schools don’t. So, acc to you, it’s up to the teachers.

Amazingly petty.

No chlorox wipes are going to keep k-2 graders from sneezing on each other.

School supplies should be school supplies. No baby wipes, no Clorox wipes, no tissues, no paper towels. Use what the school provides and what taxpayers have already PAID FOR! she should have cleaning spray they have toilet tissue they have paper towels. It’s very obnoxious to request parents to spend more money because you prefer something better than what’s already been purchased. This has to stop.

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Anonymous wrote:The teacher who refuses to purchase supplies a few pages back has it right. You don't bring in supplies, you don't have supplies at all. That's it. None of this pooling supplies nonsense. If I'm paying $15 for trbfjdndnrid pencils, then my kids should be the ones using them.

So a 10 year old, whose parents either don’t have funds or aren’t with it enough to purchase correct supplies, just sits there? Do you think any teacher will allow a kid to just sit there because their parents didn’t send a notebook and pencil?

Apparently some do. It's entirely appropriate. Reminder emails and notes home are all that should be required of teachers. Teachers are not parents. This is the parents' responsibility.

Right- so when a parent doesn’t answer you or send in supplies, you just let the kid sit there and struggle? It’s not their fault. If I did that as a teacher, and an admin observed me allowing a student to sit there without proper supplies, they’d surely be upset with me. Counselors have extra supplies & teachers usually purchase extra supplies as well. Not every teacher collects “communal supplies”. I stopped doing that during Covid times and never returned to it.

Would an administrator instruct you to purchase supplies for the child?

I think it is implied that teachers will take care of kids that need supplies, which is completley unfair! Society thinks female teachers do this job out of vocation and the goodness of their hearts, because who would do this thankless job for that salary?

-Former private school teacher where most kids did show up with supplies, and I never had to spend any of my tiny salary on them.