Back to the Good Old Days.
When my kids were young, they did this in Texas. We were provided a laundry list of supplies we needed to buy, including sanitizer and boxes of tissues. We could buy “wrap packs” with everything they needed. No fighting the traffic, crowds, etc. but it cost a little more and the PTA made money.
Seemed fair.
Then I learned that the teachers were opening the wrap packs, dumping the supplies into supply buckets, and divvying them out as needed because some students’ parents wouldn’t buy any supplies, so my kid was subsidizing them.
I stopped buying them, put my kids’ names on their stuff, and instructed them not to turn supplies over to teachers.
Not surprisingly, I no longer needed to buy scissors, rulers, etc. every year. We just used the ones from the prior year that didn’t get diverted to someone who didn’t pay.
Do an internet search on “school supplies list toilet paper” (without the quotation marks) and you will find many US schools have it on the list. My local school system requires boxes of Kleenex, zip lock bags, paper towels, cleaning wipes, etc., etc.
Toilet fees of drag queen story hour for your first grader? What's worse?
Given that we have the potential for two communists to become President and Vice President here, your obsession with Russia is bizarre. There is nothing normal about it.
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