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- May 13, 2014
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Wow! I wish we can tell our students to bring their own supplies, but apparently our school district place all this on the teachers' shoulders.
This year, the school district handed out donated bookbags and supplies to the students who asked for them, but after Sept., the students will stop bringing them and the teachers must again supply papers, pencils, notebooks, etc, if we want the students to do class work...
In this school district, I feel like the students are so entitled and expect everything to be given to them. I actually have students, who have the audacity to ask for a pencil to use and instead of returning it, the student will break the pencil and then borrow another pencil in their next class! So, I actually have a special box of broken pencils I pass out to break (no pun intended) these students of this nasty habit...
Tbh, I really feel sorry for the new teachers (2 years or less), these are the teachers who are hit the worse and are not making any money teaching and often leave the profession, quickly!...
That is sad to hear. I didn't realize how much school supply lists varied until this year---last year, we moved after the start but this past year the lists were flying around a local group I'm in. We live in a large county, over 20 elementary schools, at least 6 middles, and a handful of high schools not including magnet and charter but I figured the supply lists would be somewhat similar...nope.
Some of the schools literally had 4-5 things listed for each grade level and they were very basic---crayons, bookbag, pencils, scissors and glue. Our school supply list? 24 glue sticks, 8 bottles of glue, 12 boxes of crayons...etc, etc. At Christmas break I got a note home from one of the teachers reminding us, as parents, that some stuff would need to be replenished and if we would like to donate it'd be appreciated---crayons, glue, pencils...etc etc. But copy paper, sharpies, dry erase markers and card stock were definitely on our beginning of the year supply lists for both my Kindergartner and my 1st grader.