Do Your Teachers (or Kids’ Teachers) Request School Supplies From Students?

I think you meant to type 'institution'. And at my private school, we stil have to buy supplies. Also, we have ro buy uniforms. Last year, the uniforms for my little brother and me combined came to a total of over $600 not including the very specific shoes we have to wear. So... Yeah. What I'm
basically trying to say is that not all private schools are exempt from buying supplies.

Most private school shave supply lists and uniform costs. But I added up what I spend in supplies, versus the public schools and my list is far less. Also, uniforms are WAY cheaper than street clothes.

So, I like my daughters school, and the tuition is worth every penny. No thugs, no trash talk, no indecent clothing, and a curriculum that is fierce.

True.

The union supplies my son's teacher with everything from a Teacher's lounge Jacuzzi to a chauffeur driven transit.... Unions Rock!

This cannot be true!!! jacuzzi??? In the faculty room? Chauffeur? Stop and think: where would teachers have to go that they need a chauffeur? Is it a situation where the middle and high schools are so far apart that kids and teachers need to be transported from one building to another? And, it's a school bus with a bus driver? Or even one of the teachers is the driver?

In many classrooms, the kids uses the teacher's supplies. When those supplies are used and little kids steal, and then there are no more. Twice a year, one to stock and one to replenish everything

Our Public Schools are in such dire straits here that our kids, from Kindergarten through High School can't participate in Art, P.E., Extra-Curricular Sports, or any elective, without parental and teacher financial contributions, Parents also have to help pay for gas going to and from any field trips, or away games.

It's outrageous.

And, do you vote FOR the school budget?

and offer better grades if you bring them in

We're expected to be mature enough to get our stuff.

With the way Scott Walker has decimated Wisconsin Schools, students wouldn't have jack squat if parents didn't buy school supplies.

The question should be, "Should parents have to buy school supplies or should the school pay for it?"

One time, I brought this amazing bag of school supplies and no one else did. Didn't even get a thank-you card. How rude.

OMG, all year it's give me, get me, buy me from the teachers in my kids' school. And they make it hard on the students whose parents can't afford it or won't give in to palm greasing. I don't mind too much paying around $100.00 at the beginning of the year but that ought to do it. Especially when I know that they don't use all the supplies anyway.

They expect us to buy everything we need for school now, basically.

Every store in town has racks of lists for every school and every grade. You choose what school your kid goes to and pick up the supplies their teacher has listed then send them to school on the first day. I usually spend between $30 to $50 per kid.

This is my last year, though. So whatever.

It only happens when they're running low on like, post-it notes, hand-sanitizer, and like pencils. Some kids don't have the ability to bring everything to school, so it's no problem to help out a little.

I just graduated from high school, but my mom would always buy the basics (paper, pens, #2 pencils, calculator, ruler, binder) and then after the first day if my teacher gave out a syllabus with certain supplies we were required to have, she'd go out an buy it.

I don't have kids in school anymore but I have a friend who is a teacher. She spends a lot of her income buying supplies for kids that don't have any.

When I was in school they use to do it all the time. Like I would need to give them $30 to buy things. or they would constantly ask the class for paper.

Never

When I was in school we received a list of what we were expected to have and what we were suggested to have. It was up to us/our parents to make sure that happened. Nothing was "turned in" to the school. Anything of importance was always clearly marked for ownership.

So I swipe them from work!!!

They send home lists of what supplies to buy and tell you to not put your child's name on anything. Everything is thrown in a community bin and they dole it out as they see fit. Teaching our children socialism at a young age.

I always bought my kids stuff and put their name on it in big letters and required them to bring it home each day. I also bought extra stuff for the community bin for those kids whose parents couldn't afford supplies.

I didn't mind helping out. I sure as Hell minded being told my child could not have their own supplies.

Is this a problem or would people prefer to have their taxes pay for bloated supply requirements too?

Yes in the primary grades they do. This however is NOT unusual. Every child has always had to supply themselves with basic school suplies, pens, crayons, lined paper, folder etc. Most of the time the school would then pay for bulk items like arts and craft things or klennex as part of the SCHOOL'S budget.
But here is what is now different. Students are asked to bring in supplies such as 4 boxes of tissue and 6 bundles of loose leaf paper and 2 boxes of crayons. They are told this is to be for teh student throughout the year but the FACT is the supplies brought in to the class by students who can afford it (or can maybe afford it) is then placed into a centeral distrubution either in the class (for all students in class) or in the school (for all students in teh school) this way students who can not afford any supplies still have them. (Can you say redistrabution?)
As for the money the school normally uses from its budget to pay for bulk items it is reabsorbed into the budget and used elsewhere ususally as some kind of means to pay for ELL/ESL translators or text/workbooks in different languages.

Yupp. It's basically mandatory. But they do also say that if you are having financial issues and cannot afford all of the items, then you should talk to the principal and they will see what they can do.

They asked me for stupid school supplies every year.

That started when my youngest, now 35, was in grade school. Now, it's like the kids who can provide all the supplies for the ones that don't bring anything. Sometimes they even ask for things that the teacher used to buy or the school provided.

The parents and the PTA are expected to fund all of the school supplies. School budgets have been stripped down to almost nothing. The end result is that public schools are really privately funded. Combined with school choice, this means that poorer schools with poor students will not provide the same opportunities as richer public schools drawing from wealthy parents. Just one more way to keep the rich rich and the poor poor.

At ONLY $7,500 per student per year in lesser districts, closer to $10,000 per student per year in Washington DC area schools. That is close to a quarter million per class per year, pretty soon it is going to get expensive.

If they don't want them anymore. Mostly the art teacher

I can remember my own parents having this discussion as well ..
for even back decades ago ..
OUR parents would have sent home a list of supplies ..
which listed what we as students should have for the school year ..
as well as what the classrooms needed generally
(Things such as cleaning supplies .. kleenix, paper towels, etc .. )

I dealt with this also as a PARENT ..
each and every year ..
(along with special requests for holidays)
just part and parcel of what we .. as Responsible Adults deal with in our daily lives ..

What infuriates me though ...
is having the things I provide my child ..
stolen by other kids .. or having their things 'redistributed' in the classroom ..

Tissues, hand sanitizer, antibacterial wipes, ziploc baggies, dry erase markers, & post-it notes.

so much for the NYS lottery that was supposed to fund schools.

Same old Empire State BS

Yeah, here in Missouri they passed the law for legalized gambling by promoting it saying that ALL the proceeds would go towards education...what BS!! My daughter's school doesnt even have AC. If it's truely going towards educations, just what are they spending it on is what I would like to know.

Teacher retirement.
Teacher medical.
Teacher benefits.

Nothing about education. Only union bs.