Teachers have no business handing out supply lists that go beyond absolute essentials, and I can’t imagine what’s absolutely essential beyond paper, pencils, and pens. Maybe a binder, but those can be found at thrift shops and yard sales for a quarter and can be reused year after year. It really would make a lot more sense for those supplies to be bought in bulk by the school and resold to parents/students at cost.
I don’t know, the budgets usually don’t allow for nonessentials like germx and tissues. Of course we survived childhood without all that too.