Does your school provide any school supplies?

[Mskanga]

Our school supplies everything the kids need in kindergarten and first grade, crayons, scissors, glue , pencils and box. The PTA provides them with a folder for all grades.
It was hard yesterday to explain to my first grader , she wanted to get her pencil box ready too, but she's getting all that in school. The school though does not let the parents know , and often the parents don't know what they really need.
Does your school supply anything?

 

[2luvbugs4disney]

From Newport, NC. Nope, they give you a paper with a list of what you MUST buy. LOL. No children of our own, but a nephew and two neices.

 

[Serena]

We get a list of things that the kids need at school and at home. The school doesn't supply much. With her new school, it didn't look like they supplied anything at all, from the list they gave me.

 

[CamColt]

In Kindergarten they supplied everything to start off with, however they did ask for a couple things throughout the course of the year.
At the end of Kindergarten we got a list of all the stuff they will need for 1st grade, so I guess its up to us now.

 

[DoeWDW]

My kids are now in high school. All through their earlier years we got THE LIST too. In middle school, each team of teachers had a different list, so you never knew from one year to the next what they'd need....LOL!

 

[Serena]

Yeah, I used to go out and get what I thought they would need only to not use some of it and need more. I quit that. Now I wait and then wait in the lines like everyone else.

 

[powellrj]

When the kids were in privite school you paid a supply fee and they had your supplies ready when school started. Now that everyone is in public we buy the supplies. There is good and bad to each. With the school buying them you know they will have the right items, but you pay more for them. When I buy them there is always the change you will buy the wrong item (fiskers scissors year) but you can get the items much cheaper.

 

[browneyes]

They supply me with a list of supplies I need to buy, and then they ask for a $10 supply fee per child.

 

[JohnTBap]

Olga, have you thought about maybe getting her a set of supplies to keep at home for homework? That way she could get the pencil box she wants.

 

[Kitty 34]

Our teachers always sent a list to my kids a couple of weeks before school started stating what they would need for school. This was when they were in grade school.

 

[glo]

My daughter's elementary school, provides nothing, but crayons, glue and scissors. The school I work at provides, crayons til grade 3, and everyone gets pencils, erasers, and rulers.

 

[Marla Hellwig]

nada - we get a list before the end of the previous school year

 

[Mskanga]

Originally posted by JohnTBap
Olga, have you thought about maybe getting her a set of supplies to keep at home for homework? That way she could get the pencil box she wants.

Actually I did that last year too, she has her "home pencil box" with all the stuff she needs, scissors, glue , pencils, crayons, erasers and pencil sharpeners.
I really wouldn't mind if they sent us a list of the things they need for the older grades, but they don't. I buy the supplies anyway but at times I don't know if I need something else that I can't think about.

 

[Evil Princess]

Never did this in my schools, and I couldn't imagine it with the amounts of kids!!!

 

[Rock'n Robin]

Nothing. I got a supply list from the elementary school at the end of the year so I have DS (Kindergarten) and DD#2 (3rd grade) taken care of. Why in the world does a kindergartener need 6 large glue sticks?
DD#1 will be in junior high--I bought her 3 notebooks because they were 27 cents at Target--but I'm afraid that first week I'll be in line for her as well.
And there are fees for every grade--I think DD#2 is $35, DD#1 will be more, DS will be around $20.
Robin M.

 

[nuke]

DS's kindergarten supplies the basics, crayons, pencils, paper etc. We did have to buy a few things. The thing that blew me away was the 20 glue sticks he needed. I even called the school to make sure it wasn't a typo but they said the kids go thru them that fast! Who knew there would be that much gluing in Kindergarten?

 

[peg2001]

Not only does our public school NOT provide school supplies, but the list they send home for parents to provide includes items like soft soap and hand sanitizer for the bathrooms, and reams of paper for the teacher. PLUS, they have a $25 school fee. I went round and round with them last year because they would not clearly define where the $25 went and I wouldn't pay it until I understood what it was used for. I finally pinned the school's bookkeeper in the office and quizzed her. The $25 was for generally administrative costs, laminating, etc.

So much for a "free" education!

Peggy

 

[nkjzmom]

Peggy...where do you live? Your school sounds just like ours! Not only do we provide items for our students but then we're asked to bring in boxes of tisses, soap, hand sanitizer, sharpies, and the dry erase markers for the white boards.

Do the teachers REALLY go through that many dry erase markers? I understand that not every student brings them in....but I've got markers that I use constantly in our home on the calendar and for list making and they've lasted for years!

 

[disykat]

Just to answer the question about dry erase markers - in our case most of the students have a small dry erase board and marker in their desk. The teachers have them do individual math problems etc. on them as they are doing the lesson and have them hold them up - that way you can quickly identify the kids that aren't getting it. It's really a great teaching tool. Some teachers even have the kids keep an old clean sock in their desk for easy wipe off!

We provide most of the consumable school supplies from home. However, the school does still provide construction and odd-sized paper etc. I was amazed the first time I went in the "paper supply" room at my kids school. It is basically a closet. When I taught, the supply room at my school was as large a classroom. It made me think that now the supply list is about more than the cost of the supplies, but also about the cost of storage and distribution.

 

[supercarrie]

My little sister's elementary school just mailed a list home of supplies she will need. They don't provide anything. I used to buy my supplies in advance, without a list, but every year there is at least one teacher who wants something specific, so I just wait until the first day of school when they pass out the course syllabus...then I get to wait in line.