Parents should pay for the basics for their own kids. Their taxes are funding the rest of it.
In the history series I’m reading my little boys, the school hands out paper (one sheet at a time), pens, and ink, and crayons to the children. Everything remains at the school.
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I require my students each have a folder, a notebook, pencils, erasers, blue or black ink pens, and an additional notebook or composition book for journaling. I refuse to require Kleenex, paper towels, hand sanitizers, etc. I just think it’s wrong. Many of my students don’t bring the requirements (it’s an urban school and they can’t afford pencils after they buy their new iPhones and Air Jordans), but I refuse to give them anything. My supply list is less than $5.00 at Walmart.
Ambiguity is the mother's milk of progressives and radicals.
Niot having to comply with the law just leaves more money to pay the largely incompetent teachers.
Has everyone heard the World War Eleven story? really; being taught in a classroom. A teacher of undisclosed race calling WWII World War Eleven...
Whoo boy...I can see taxes going up in a big way. It's for the chillun don't you know.
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Tomorrow is Dallas ISD big school supply give away. People with be lined up before dawn for the gibsmedat.
I actually do teach in a suburb of Dallas. My school is about 80% “economically disadvantaged” students. Every year I give the kids a large plastic tote that is kept on shelves for them to keep their school supplies in. I tell the kids that they are responsible for their own supplies and no one is to go into their tote except them. If they wish to loan out things to other students that is fine, but I don’t collect them into a “community” pile. I give the teachers who do that a hard time. At open house I get the same two reactions to my class policy every year. The parents who bought their kid’s supplies are grateful, while the parents who didn’t supply anything at all are pretty sullen. For those kids who don’t bring any supplies at all I have a large box of old crayons that I have picked up off of the floor over the years, and for writing I let them use those little golf pencils. If anyone thinks that is harsh then please explain why I consistently get more parents request that I become their child’s teacher than the other teachers in my grade level.
I never minded buying some items for my kids’ classrooms when they were little. They grew up in a poor rural school where the teachers needed the help else they spent out of pocket. I probably wouldn’t do it today - let the bloodsucking teachers union pay for it - that’s less they have to give Ohomo.