Anonymous
08/03/2025 04:29
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
My child brought home unused boxes of pencils at the end of the school year. Included unused glue sticks and unused post it's (without the plastic wrapping). Can my child take those back to school so we don't have to buy those? They are unused but the boxes look as if they are used.
Anonymous
08/03/2025 01:13
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Guess what many teachers will be doing in a week or two: Active Shooter Training, stop the bleeding course, and how to shelter in place. Buy the darn pencils if you can!
Okay, I'll donate when the teacher puts a gun on her wish list.
Hey PP, I’ll do you better. I’ll send you a Sig Sauer P320 if you promise to shake it around while loaded.
Anonymous
08/03/2025 01:01
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Thank you to all the teachers out there dealing with these crazy penny-wise pound-foolish parents. They worry more about buying too many pencils and Clorox wipes than making it easier for their children’s teachers to do their jobs. Some like to complain that teachers are not doing enough to educate their kids and the quality of education in FCPS is declining. Yet, they want teachers to monitor dropped pencils and force kids to pick them up so parents can save $5.50 a year on ‘excessive’ pencils.
Anonymous
08/03/2025 00:18
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Easy.
Teacher here. I had to fill in for you. Yes, these supplies are pricy. When you and other parents sent just one box of Clorox wipes, I had to purchase tons of Clorox with my own money to make up the difference.
So you simply transferred the cost to me. I guess that’s okay, but it starts to add up when a lot of parents do it.
Why did you buy Clorox wipes? What did teachers do before the wipes existed? What about the teachers who don’t buy supplies?
They probably used paper towels and clorox spray. Obviously using wipes is much faster. This most likely frees up some time so they can eat their lunch in 12 minutes instead of 10, or respond to one of the gagillion emails parents send asking about stuff that was sent in the weekly newsletter!
To the people complaining about the clorox wipes, you better not be the ones sending your kids in sick!
The Venn Diagram of parents complaining about school supplies and parents who send their kids in sick is basically a circle.
💯
Anonymous
08/02/2025 23:05
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Easy.
Teacher here. I had to fill in for you. Yes, these supplies are pricy. When you and other parents sent just one box of Clorox wipes, I had to purchase tons of Clorox with my own money to make up the difference.
So you simply transferred the cost to me. I guess that’s okay, but it starts to add up when a lot of parents do it.
Clorox wipes are disgusting
Feel free to volunteer to clean the desks for your child’s teacher with whatever cleaning material you prefer.
Anonymous
08/02/2025 23:02
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Easy.
Teacher here. I had to fill in for you. Yes, these supplies are pricy. When you and other parents sent just one box of Clorox wipes, I had to purchase tons of Clorox with my own money to make up the difference.
So you simply transferred the cost to me. I guess that’s okay, but it starts to add up when a lot of parents do it.
Clorox wipes are disgusting
Anonymous
08/02/2025 23:00
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Easy.
Teacher here. I had to fill in for you. Yes, these supplies are pricy. When you and other parents sent just one box of Clorox wipes, I had to purchase tons of Clorox with my own money to make up the difference.
So you simply transferred the cost to me. I guess that’s okay, but it starts to add up when a lot of parents do it.
Why did you buy Clorox wipes? What did teachers do before the wipes existed? What about the teachers who don’t buy supplies?
They probably used paper towels and clorox spray. Obviously using wipes is much faster. This most likely frees up some time so they can eat their lunch in 12 minutes instead of 10, or respond to one of the gagillion emails parents send asking about stuff that was sent in the weekly newsletter!
To the people complaining about the clorox wipes, you better not be the ones sending your kids in sick!
The Venn Diagram of parents complaining about school supplies and parents who send their kids in sick is basically a circle.
Anonymous
08/02/2025 22:52
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Easy.
Teacher here. I had to fill in for you. Yes, these supplies are pricy. When you and other parents sent just one box of Clorox wipes, I had to purchase tons of Clorox with my own money to make up the difference.
So you simply transferred the cost to me. I guess that’s okay, but it starts to add up when a lot of parents do it.
Why did you buy Clorox wipes? What did teachers do before the wipes existed? What about the teachers who don’t buy supplies?
They probably used paper towels and clorox spray. Obviously using wipes is much faster. This most likely frees up some time so they can eat their lunch in 12 minutes instead of 10, or respond to one of the gagillion emails parents send asking about stuff that was sent in the weekly newsletter!
To the people complaining about the clorox wipes, you better not be the ones sending your kids in sick!
Anonymous
08/02/2025 22:49
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Easy.
Teacher here. I had to fill in for you. Yes, these supplies are pricy. When you and other parents sent just one box of Clorox wipes, I had to purchase tons of Clorox with my own money to make up the difference.
So you simply transferred the cost to me. I guess that’s okay, but it starts to add up when a lot of parents do it.
Why did you buy Clorox wipes? What did teachers do before the wipes existed? What about the teachers who don’t buy supplies?
Before wipes we used some multipurpose cleaning spray (like 409) and paper towels - that we bought on our own.
They teachers that don’t buy supplies have very sticky desks in their classroom. Janitorial staff doesn’t clean desks.
Anonymous
08/02/2025 21:02
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There are none left over. Your children will break and lose all the pencils. They will let them fall on the floor and will walk over them instead of picking them up.
We use wipes snd paper towels probably for the same thing you do—cleaning things, wiping up messes, drying hands.
THIS! I am a sub and am constantly telling kids to pick up pencils from the floor.
Ok … so the answer is to have the kids pick them up and put them away no? Not ask the parents to send in 500 pencils.
They don’t pick them up.
Who's in charge here? Stand there and tell them they may not leave, may not go anywhere or do anything until they pick up the pencil they dropped. Get a backbone!
You ok with your kid missing lunch and recess waiting for a kid to pick up a pencil?
If your kid picks up the pencil they dropped then they can go. I never punished an entire class for the mistakes of one kid.
I can't just send my class to the cafeteria alone. I have to escort them. I also can't leave students in the classroom alone.
Anonymous
08/02/2025 20:59
Subject: Re:School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:The pencil thing is crazy. My kids second grade teacher last year had a “one month pencil club” and the kids who used the same pencil all month long had their picture taken and posted on the class FB page. It was the majority of the class, each month. So that’s 9 pencils per kid per year. 120 is outrageous.
Lol. Where do your kids go to school? I teach in a city and the kids would say, "Who cares?" if I told them their picture would be posted on the class FB page if they kept track of their pencil. They might also add an expletive in there too.
Anonymous
08/02/2025 20:55
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:120 Ticonderoga pencils? You're exaggerating right?
Nope not kidding. 24 pack presharpebed pencils x 5 packs. Last year the teacher only let him have 2 pencils. This communal thing is crazy. We aren’t working hard to spend our money for other people.
I’m a teacher. I have to spend my own money on others’ children all the time. When parents don’t provide, I have to purchase. Some years parents are generous and provide what’s on the list. Some years parents provide very little and I have to do bulk orders with my own money. It adds up. I’ve spend over $800 on supplies some years.
Just don’t buy it. You’re part of the problem here. The school will provide it if you don’t.
teacher. FIFY. My school doesn't supply anything. If parents don't send it in, there is nothing. I buy stuff, my family buys it, my son sometimes asks friends and roommates for any extra supplies.
Anonymous
08/02/2025 20:28
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Easy.
Teacher here. I had to fill in for you. Yes, these supplies are pricy. When you and other parents sent just one box of Clorox wipes, I had to purchase tons of Clorox with my own money to make up the difference.
So you simply transferred the cost to me. I guess that’s okay, but it starts to add up when a lot of parents do it.
Why did you buy Clorox wipes? What did teachers do before the wipes existed? What about the teachers who don’t buy supplies?
Anonymous
08/02/2025 20:20
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
My kid's teacher sent an email when she was running low on something. Pretty simple.
Anonymous
08/02/2025 20:18
Subject: School Supplies lists and Janitorial Supplies
Anonymous wrote:Guess what many teachers will be doing in a week or two: Active Shooter Training, stop the bleeding course, and how to shelter in place. Buy the darn pencils if you can!
Okay, I'll donate when the teacher puts a gun on her wish list.