FYI: The reason you have to pay for school supplies is because GOP-dominated states have defunded public schools. Your taxes are going to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy, while your local school has to beg for supplies.
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yup the Homestead deduction they have in Texas just defunds the schools.
jul 20, 2025, 11:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Is Marcy for real? 🙄
jul 20, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude we had to get the same supplies 30 years ago. What did this person expect?
jul 21, 2025, 1:57 pm • 6 0 • view
I retired 4 years ago and taught children who couldn't afford supplies. My principal also had a policy where we couldn't do Amazon wish lists or ask for donations. Every pencil, highlighter, pen, kleenex, etc. was purchased by me.
jul 20, 2025, 9:08 pm • 7 0 • view
I taught middle school kids with behavioral and emotional disabilities and we cooked a lot. It was a great way to teach taking turns, following directions, and cooperation. I bought all the food too.
jul 20, 2025, 9:10 pm • 6 0 • view
I demand smaller government! Wait, why isn't the government paying for MY needs...🤦
jul 20, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
This is a sad reality, and I’m headed into the classroom next month as the result of a midlife career change. I’m seeing Amazon wish lists for teachers everywhere. At a step one on the salary scale and a single parent, I’ll only be able to afford so much. With the DOE gone, the matter will worsen
jul 22, 2025, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view
We live in a Go Fund Me, pay-to-play country. While the billionaires bleed us dry, We the People are expected to make up for the shortfalls.
jul 20, 2025, 9:12 pm • 6 0 • view
Maybe some chocolates and a nice bottle of wine should be on the list, too. Let's care for those teachers, administrators, custodians, counselors, secretaries, kitchen staff, playground monitors, and all the other folks that help make our youngest citizens people we want to have in our communities.
jul 20, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 0 • view
One thing that has never changed...getting boxes of Kleenex.
jul 21, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Doesn't seem right to me, either.
jul 21, 2025, 1:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I taught 30 years in a low income area. The District would send out big lists. I would tell my parents that we need #2 pencils and dry erase pens, but don’t spend $$ on dumb stuff.
jul 21, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
Exactly! Teachers in our red state collect all the supplies brought in and distribute them like loaves and fishes.
jul 21, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
ASK QUESTIONS. SOMETIMES THEY PUT THE SUPPLIES YOU BUY INTO A POOL. I DON'T LIKE IT.
jul 20, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
‘Teaching is the only job where you steal office supplies from home to bring to work.’ I’m retired, but I easily spent $1000 yr on my classroom. And the pay wasn’t great. And I had an M.Ed. Many 10 hour days…
jul 21, 2025, 2:29 am • 11 0 • view
I bet old Marcy voted for the Republicans!
jul 20, 2025, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Marcy needs to get a grip. I was in education for over 30 years as a teacher and administrator. The last few decades we had to spend our meeting time making cuts because of the GOP. Wish we could have spent that time working on curriculum. The GOP has been dismantling education for decades!!
jul 21, 2025, 2:19 pm • 7 0 • view
Correct…then, the most insidious thing-the GOP used the failure of schools (caused directly from the defunding) to claim that public schools don’t work. That gave them an excuse to continue deeper cuts and funnel tax dollars to private schools that actually have no better track records.
jul 20, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 0 • view
One more note…appropriately funded public schools are wildly successful. Ex. A-if we disaggregate data and only compare are top states to other countries-they are highly competitive. Ex.B-DoD schools (everyone from privates to commanders attend same schools) are successful and competitive.
jul 20, 2025, 9:27 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 20, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view
My daughter had to bring extras of things for the kids who were more poor than we were. I thought it was great we were helping others.
jul 20, 2025, 7:56 pm • 2 0 • view
The schools I taught in didn’t have a supply closet. I couldn’t go anywhere for pencils or pens or Kleenexes. If the kids didn’t bring their own, I bought them. I taught 16 years. I left making $41,000 a year.
jul 20, 2025, 8:58 pm • 519 45 • view
You are a true hero. I'm sorry the ruling class does not agree.
jul 20, 2025, 9:52 pm • 2 0 • view
I doubt the teacher wants to use play-doh or crayons for herself. This person is not thinking straight.
jul 21, 2025, 3:34 am • 4 0 • view
Retired in 2018 making 55K in a red state after 40 years. Teachers aren’t in education for the money.
jul 20, 2025, 11:31 pm • 22 2 • view
I’m not sure what to make of this comment.
jul 21, 2025, 5:07 am • 3 0 • view
My flabber has definitely been gasted.
jul 21, 2025, 10:52 am • 0 0 • view
Make of it teachers aren’t paid enough.
jul 21, 2025, 10:08 am • 11 0 • view
I am so mad that they are giving ICE agents sign on bonus, school loan forgiveness & starting them at up to 100K it shows where our priorities are in this country
aug 16, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
Teacher salaries were always low compared to other professions. No idea now, as have been retired since 2008.
jul 20, 2025, 9:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Dear lord... in the UK state schools are funded, and that includes books, exercise books, tech stuff, computers, libraries, trips, writing and art equipment, instruments, PE kit, science kit... etc. Budgets are very big.
jul 20, 2025, 9:12 pm • 11 1 • view
Everything is funded at our school district in California, too. Except gym clothes but we don’t have to buy the school ones. It sucks that it varies so widely from state to state here.
jul 20, 2025, 11:20 pm • 3 0 • view
The USA is so large... I can see why States have some autonomy... shame some are so misguided.
jul 21, 2025, 11:10 am • 0 0 • view
🙏🏼💫❤️🩹
jul 20, 2025, 9:05 pm • 6 0 • view
Although I have no direct proof 😆 When I went to school discrete corporal punishment was a thing. I never remember being without "supplies" to facilitate my ability to learn. That was over 60 years ago. I think the "supply" closet may have been used for "other" educational tools....again, no proof😆
jul 20, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Compare a teacher’s salary to the starting rate of the ICE goons.
jul 21, 2025, 2:44 am • 3 0 • view
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s in Southern California. I had never seen a supply list until community college. Moved to Tennessee and raised my children here. The supply list for all five of my kids was a huge burden for us. Thankfully, both my mom and his mom were educators and helped…
jul 20, 2025, 10:48 pm • 4 0 • view
….but so many of my neighbors didn’t have that privilege. I know the teachers made up for that. I also wonder, how many meals that teachers pay for?
jul 20, 2025, 10:50 pm • 4 0 • view
Compare with Nordic countries that pay teachers top salaries, making the field highly coveted and competitive. While US universities have ranked among the world's best, the quality of its K-12 education is fairly checkered.
jul 20, 2025, 9:52 pm • 10 2 • view
Same here Jess
jul 20, 2025, 9:06 pm • 2 0 • view
I left education after six years for the same reason. With a masters degree in science, I made $55,000. That included a $5,000 bonus for teaching physics. I ended up buying paper, pencils, markers, poster board, etc., for students. The district and many parents refused to provide it. It’s ridiculous
jul 20, 2025, 11:20 pm • 3 1 • view
Sounds like you should move to a blue state where we respect teachers. 🤷🏼♂️
jul 20, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I bought my own supplies. I also kept a large box of snacks for hungry students.
jul 20, 2025, 11:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Or, if you're truly of the conservative mindset, you shouldn't be asking for socialism. You should be pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and paying for the requirements that your child needs your fucking self. Can't have your cake and eat it too. It's always intellectually inconsistent w/ them
jul 20, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Did you forget to add 'in Jesus' name, oh Lord!' Bless your heart!!
jul 20, 2025, 9:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Honestly, want people to start asking maga/GOP voters what they got out of this election. It wasn't clean water or air, it isn't lower health care costs b/c the Medicaid cuts are going to raise rates on Pvt plans too, it isn't more educational opportunities, tips and OT taxes amounted to nothing
jul 21, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
Eggs did drop some in price, but all other groceries are increasing, research is gone, tourism is tanking. I mean I guess we got the return of coal and have to carry our papers every time we step outside, so hoorah, I guess🙄🙄
jul 21, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
The cruelty is the point. They're just bad people.
jul 21, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
29th year of teaching here. I’m lucky to teach in a suburban MO school that is in a fairly good place. Buying stuff for my classroom is just normal. My husband doesn’t even blink anymore. PostIts, Expo markers, Ziplock bags, etc… Things I use everyday in the classroom.
jul 20, 2025, 9:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Rapidly becoming a sh*thole country...
jul 20, 2025, 7:48 pm • 6 0 • view
Wait til Marcy finds out how much teachers spend…
jul 20, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
The Expo Dry Erase markers and the nap mat would be the "tell" for me.
jul 21, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
The classrooms come empty. Everything in it is from the teacher save one bookshelf and a filing cabinet and desks. The teachers fund it all.
jul 21, 2025, 1:29 am • 10 0 • view
Let's see: Democrats caved to neocons 20+ yrs ago. Doctors caved to for-profit corpirations, teachers beg for $ for supplies, media & courts caved, universities & scientists caved. There's not a leader among any of these groups America has a leadership shortage.
jul 20, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
The fact is those scissors are ordered to protect that person’s child from: 1) cutting off their own or others’ fingers 2) stabbing or being stabbed Maybe that parent should send their child to Ayn Rand Elementary to learn libertarian cause and effect
jul 20, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Not sure what Marcy means, but teachers' supplies ARE kids supplies.
jul 20, 2025, 9:50 pm • 8 0 • view
I suppose she's afraid either the teacher or some other kid will use one of HER kid's tissues! lol
jul 21, 2025, 3:30 am • 2 0 • view
Welcome to the new world, world order.
jul 20, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Hopefully sooner than later the Republican base may learn the Republicans in Congress really only care about themselves, not their constituents!
jul 21, 2025, 12:31 pm • 2 0 • view
While a guard at DeSantis Dachau gets to make 100k + a year.
jul 20, 2025, 8:44 pm • 9 0 • view
I remember that. It was the 1990's. Teachers bent over after politicians preyed on their love of children. It was easy for them to rob you because you revealed your weaknesses.
jul 21, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans are weird. And hate public schools.
jul 21, 2025, 3:04 am • 0 0 • view
Teachers buying supplies is not a new thing! Not only do teachers supply students with extras like crayons, etc they buy clothing, coats, mittens, boots for the school’s clothing bank. Teachers are, in my opinion, true heroes!
jul 21, 2025, 12:00 pm • 3 0 • view
I remember having to buy crayons when I was a kid a long time ago. Teachers are paying for a lot of stuff out of pocket as it is...there is no good answer here except for the communities to start helping more, the Republicans never will. Better yet, vote Republicans out!!
jul 20, 2025, 9:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Same reason food pantries are gonna be begging more. (So many marking their 40th anniversaries the last couple of years -- all rot leads to Reagan.)
jul 20, 2025, 9:41 pm • 24 2 • view
I volunteer in first grade. By the end of the first semester, most of the items on that list are gone. The teachers and I buy many items when the school or the parents can't/ won't.
jul 21, 2025, 4:02 am • 4 0 • view
Everything on the supplies list is for your child. If you don't purchase, this child will have to get it from another child's supplies, or the teacher has to buy them. Kids lose shit or destroy them by November. Once again, the teacher has to replenish the supplies. Support teachers at DONORSCHOOSE
jul 21, 2025, 12:49 am • 0 0 • view
I have not had children in school in years, but I will still donate items to schools so the teachers do not have to spend so much from their own pockets. Remember, they also need help halfway through the year, too.
jul 20, 2025, 10:09 pm • 17 1 • view
This thread is making me want to adopt a classroom and help out with supplies. This is all so sad.
jul 21, 2025, 10:56 am • 1 0 • view
You know, I stop in during this time of year when supplies are on sale and buy crayons, colored pencils, pencils, notebooks, etc. and take them to the nearest elementary school. But I can honestly say, this year a teacher for special education has moved in next door and she will be to whom I give.
jul 21, 2025, 3:11 pm • 1 1 • view
Now that my brain is chugging along, I think l will check out the donorschoose website and find a teacher near me.
jul 21, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
You will never regret even spending $10 to alleviate a teacher’s financial burden regarding her class. Or, you can show up with a 12-pack of paper towels or tissues and the gratitude will be obvious.😉 Good luck!
jul 21, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I checked my zip-code and there’s only one teacher asking for $1,000 to teach kids pickleball.
jul 21, 2025, 4:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for looking. Pick an elementary school drop off school items. It will be appreciated.
jul 21, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I found an elementary school that is looking for basics. Pre-sharpened pencils, dry erase markers, whiteboards, and other basic things for a classroom of 30 kids, Total cost $280. I think I can do this one.
jul 21, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I called the school, Ms. B will call me back on Wednesday!! She has listed all of the items that she wants so I can possibly find all these online and just send them to her school and maybe add a 12 pack of Kleenex or paper towel towels or something apparently she teaches second grade.
jul 21, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Yay!!!😃 Thank you for helping!🙏🏼
jul 21, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Teacher next door program if you will. I absolutely love it.
jul 21, 2025, 3:19 pm • 1 0 • view
i live in blue broward county, fl. these supplies were on the lists my kids got 20 plus years ago. they've always asked for things like this.
jul 20, 2025, 7:49 pm • 45 0 • view
Same here AND we had to fundraise to keep a nurse on staff for the elementary school
jul 20, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Same here for my kids and my boys are 38 and 37 years old now.
jul 20, 2025, 8:27 pm • 11 0 • view
Same…except for the dry erase markers, ream of copy paper, box of sandwich bags…the highlighted things, yes, definitely.
jul 21, 2025, 10:39 am • 2 0 • view
The point is public schools have needed more funding for the last thirty years . Same list for 30 years . Don’t you think something needs to change ? Like tax the rich fund the schools .
jul 20, 2025, 9:54 pm • 23 0 • view
great idea
jul 20, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
This is actually a pretty good point. Underfunding education has long been a bipartisan issue.
jul 20, 2025, 8:04 pm • 4 0 • view
My daughter does a wish list on Amazon bc she has a poor school community and makes shit. Seriously, there are families who cannot afford supplies. And no soap in the bathrooms.
jul 21, 2025, 12:24 am • 1 0 • view
Let me knock you all back: I can remember when female teachers at schools in my district had to PURCHASE and COOK whole turkeys for fundraising dinners.
jul 21, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a shame we spend our tax dollars on bombs and wars- while our children’s education is woefully under funded! Teachers are shamefully under paid and the system requires more money from every students family to make do! Yet the middle and lower classes pay taxes through the nose!
jul 21, 2025, 5:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Same as it ever was.
jul 21, 2025, 7:04 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s does not have to be. The tax dollars our gov collects is more than enough to fund healthcare for all, education it to college level for free, fix roads & infrastructure, food programs and Social security… we have bribed leaders that make the wealthy wealthier!
jul 21, 2025, 11:14 pm • 1 0 • view
That is nifty in theory but unfortunately we will never have everything you mentioned.
jul 22, 2025, 12:47 am • 1 0 • view
You mean if we continue to fund wars and bombs? I agree
jul 22, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
Well also because some politicians have lobbyist money in their back pocket.
jul 22, 2025, 3:49 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe ICE can donate some supplies, they have all the dough
jul 21, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
No budget for school supplies or school lunches but planting money for ICE!! We definitely have a moral problem in this country.
jul 20, 2025, 11:01 pm • 7 0 • view
Honestly, as a parent, it has been common for decades. Those able go to Costco, buy bulk supplies and buy stuff for the classrooms that other families may not be able to afford. Of course, federal and state government should be funding basic supplies for schools. That is not the reality.
jul 20, 2025, 7:54 pm • 38 0 • view
The local school list specifies name brand items only. No Costco special, has to be Kleenex tissues, Ziploc bags
jul 20, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view
People looking for outrage where none should exist. They should ask their kid's teacher how much money she has personally paid for kid's school supplies this year? How many snacks they have purchased to feed hungry kids? A lot. No teacher is getting paid by KLEENIX for brand promotion.
jul 20, 2025, 8:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Cmon, you know that’s not what the teacher meant. Those words are used in a generic sense.
jul 20, 2025, 8:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Supplies are pooled. If there is a mix of name brand and generic or off brand, kids fight over getting the “good” supplies.
jul 20, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
They will also end up wasting/overusing bad supplies. Our school requests Ticonderoga #2 pencils. (Yes, they will take any.) However, the "any" that come from the dollar store end up with broken lead all the way to the eraser, and kids sharpen them to a nub trying to get a lead they can write with.
jul 20, 2025, 9:08 pm • 2 0 • view
The same thing with crappy "Kleenex." There are plenty of cheap brands, and the cheapest will immediately disintegrate on the runny noses kids go to school with. So then it's another tissue. And another. And another. And ten tissues later, their nose is still leaking. There IS a quality difference.
jul 20, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
What are they going to do if you bring in Puff’s? Make your kids walk around with a sign on their neck shaming them b/c their parent bought the wrong brand of tissues? No, they’ll put them in the stack with the rest and go on with their day.
jul 20, 2025, 8:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Well that’s just silly. Both those items in the generic brand work well enough for classroom use. They aren’t storing biological warfare samples, right???
jul 20, 2025, 8:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Kleenex is often used to refer to any kind of tissue and I imagine the ziplock reference is more about wanting reclosable bags vs the fold over and tuck style of sandwich bags.
jul 20, 2025, 8:32 pm • 16 0 • view
I think you’ve always had to buy supplies in public school? Also be grateful for teachers that spend $100s of their own money while simultaneously being unbelievably underpaid. But rich people don’t have enough yet so…
jul 21, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
You should see the condition of textbooks and the age of textbooks.
jul 20, 2025, 7:44 pm • 8 0 • view
"Be careful of what you read in books, except for the bible." - United States Secretary of State, July 2025 youtube.com/shorts/n_7o1...
jul 22, 2025, 1:14 am • 0 0 • view
Hey. Did you know @bookshop.org can do wish lists /registries for teachers ? #booksky Starve Amazon bookshop.org/info/wishlis...
jul 21, 2025, 6:47 pm • 3 0 • view
And let's not forget they capped the amount teachers could deduct on taxes for all the supplies they bought themselves.
jul 21, 2025, 1:35 am • 21 1 • view
$200. That’s all I can deduct.
jul 21, 2025, 2:42 am • 5 0 • view
That just tightens my jaw. Meanwhile, businesses can deduct massive amounts for equipment though they used to have to depreciate a bit each year. It's outrageously unfair.
jul 21, 2025, 3:16 am • 1 0 • view
Absolutely infuriating
jul 21, 2025, 3:34 am • 4 0 • view
When I was a kid, we all brought our own stuff. Now, it's all provided to my kids. Imagine demanding people bootstrap up while complaining online that you have to buy your own kid's school supplies.
jul 21, 2025, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s been called a bunch of names like ‘Trickel down economics, but most-recently in the big fucked bill it’s called ‘Keep The Oligarchs Happy’ bill. All to rip off everyone else.
jul 20, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s ridiculous. Under this administration America is becoming a authoritarian shit hole nation.
jul 21, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I was a teacher in the late 90s. This looks just like the list I sent out ea h year.
jul 20, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
My parents had to provide our crayons..and pencils and pens..in the 50s.
jul 21, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
I explained this to my now 21 yo.
jul 20, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
That's what she's complaining about? I grew up in NYC and we always had to buy school supplies like this list, and our teachers were in a union
jul 21, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
I’m a retired SPED teacher. They have been doing this for at least a decade. Private school vouchers bleed our funding, but boy, they really stuck it to the public schools this time.,It’s heartbreaking 💔
jul 20, 2025, 7:53 pm • 5 0 • view
P.S. send a few boxes of tissues for your snot nose kid, too. Sincerely, Teachers Everywhere
jul 21, 2025, 3:38 am • 2 0 • view
Supplies don’t just materialize from thin air. Voting for officials who defund schools is a choice to force individuals to supply classrooms. I would also encourage capable families to donate lots of tissue. Flu season moves on intro allergy season.
jul 20, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
You can apply to be a guard at the Everglade detention center. $40k sign on bonus, then $6k WEEKY. That’s a lot of crayons… Hey World, why are you upside down?
jul 21, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 0 • view
It’s been that way in AZ for years. Literally asking for reams of paper, pens, crayons, TISSUES!!! Parents spending additional $ and then those poor teachers on their under $50k salary supplement ing when supplies are short. 😡
jul 20, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
geez these people CLASSROOM SUPPLIES as in; for teaching your children
aug 16, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
Teachers already pay for a lot of supplies for their kids. Not unreasonable for parents to support the class room.
jul 20, 2025, 7:58 pm • 6 0 • view
I used to spend hundreds of dollars of my own money on my classroom and students every year. Probably closer to a thousand my first 5 years of teaching.
jul 20, 2025, 8:15 pm • 5 0 • view
We have local charities that help kids with supplies and a backpack if they need them. It makes me sick to think our government continues to make getting an education harder for every day Americans.
jul 21, 2025, 1:37 pm • 2 0 • view
I used to buy food for kids. Empty stomach means no learning
jul 20, 2025, 10:43 pm • 2 0 • view
You would think but not anymore. AND teachers are still having to buy this for their classrooms!!
jul 20, 2025, 10:58 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s disgraceful and god forbid you give money to teachers
jul 20, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I am in a blue state and I was shocked that we had to buy a long list of required supplies every year. It seemed wildly inefficient to have every family doing this scavenger hunt and paying retail prices when the schools should be properly funded to be able to supply their classrooms.
jul 20, 2025, 9:07 pm • 1 0 • view
They've been doing this for at least 40 years, and in blue states too
jul 21, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
Re highlighted items, those ARE supplies students will use & bring leftovers home. Not sure why parents would be opposed to these. Don't want to supply your kid with crayons & scissors? No activities requiring those things will be done. Purely paper/pencil will be awfully boring. This way for years.
jul 20, 2025, 8:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Sister-in-law is a third generation teacher. When I asked her what to give to a teacher for Christmas, which is the custom around here, she told me the supplies are for the kids whose parents can’t afford them. The supplies allow them to participate in class activities without embarrassment.
jul 20, 2025, 8:45 pm • 3 0 • view
This is why cuts to Title I are so outrageous. Schools in affluent areas have parents who can afford to pay for supplies & even resource teachers. Schools in areas with high poverty have families who can’t afford to subsidize the lack of resources. Title I helps give their kids better opportunities.
jul 21, 2025, 12:09 am • 1 0 • view
northgate crossing elementary is in spring, texas. shocking, huh?
jul 21, 2025, 12:10 am • 1 0 • view
People in red states haven't quite figured out that those "tax cuts" don't mean they pay fewer taxes; rather, they pay double to cover all the necessary services that were defunded in order to make the rich richer. The GOP hope that by the time they figure it out, the GOP can blame it on the dems.
jul 20, 2025, 10:40 pm • 13 0 • view
Target put school stuff on sale last week. I always buy 2 shopping bags full. One w/ crayons, glue sticks, rounded scissors, etc., for the sliding-scale preschool near me. The other has notebooks, pens & pencils, highlighters, etc., for older kids at a middle school where my niece teaches. Try it!
jul 21, 2025, 12:32 am • 1 0 • view
Red states also have school choice vouchers where money for public education is stolen from public schools and given to peeps to pay for private school. It’s pure government subsidies for private schools!
jul 21, 2025, 4:09 am • 0 0 • view
We used to pay up to $160 a year for school supplies for two kids here in Kans-ass.
jul 20, 2025, 9:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Another factor is school vouchers that suck funding from public schools and go mainly to rich folks with kids already in private school.
jul 21, 2025, 12:25 am • 12 0 • view
So some of you think teachers should pay for supplies to teach. Should doctors and nurses have to buy their own supplies?
jul 20, 2025, 10:19 pm • 30 1 • view
And Trump's first tax cut capped the deduction for teachers buying classroom supplies at $250
jul 20, 2025, 10:12 pm • 2 0 • view
jul 21, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
jul 20, 2025, 10:14 pm • 3 2 • view
We get what we vote for. In Texas we underfund education every year and then wonder why we don’t have enough teachers.
jul 20, 2025, 7:46 pm • 8 0 • view
Can confirm. I had one kid in the mid-‘80s and two more around 2000. The first kid never needed school supplies other than a few notebooks or minor things. By the time the younger two were in grade school the list was as long as my arm.
jul 20, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
My friend in CA isn’t permitted to ask parents for school supplies. She literally makes an Amazon wishlist every year for her class’s school supplies. And I’m positive she supplies whatever she doesn’t get from the wishlist, and more. It’s insanity.
jul 20, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Our taxes are going towards things like terrorizing people instead of teaching our kids. That’s unfortunate and boils my blood. Support your teachers. Even if you don’t have kids or your kids are grown. This is our next generation. If the government won’t do it then we need to.
jul 20, 2025, 7:47 pm • 20 1 • view
I didn't mind sending in classroom supplies. What I did mind was a teacher scolding my kid for not having a pencil, with a deep breath & heavy sigh "Go get one from the supply closet & you lose a point for the day." 😒 If I send it in, all kids should be free to get supplies as needed w/o rancor.
jul 21, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I remember when my daughter was in first or second grade, they asked each child to bring in a roll of toilet paper! I thought it was a joke. I grew up in the same schools and was never asked to bring in anything other than my own pencils and a notebook.
jul 20, 2025, 7:46 pm • 0 0 • view
...and de facto funding to Jeff Bezos for all those Amazon wish lists. @craignewmark.bsky.social There must be a better way to help our schools, our teachers, our kids.
jul 20, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 0 • view
jul 20, 2025, 8:59 pm • 1 0 • view
I live in a blue city in a blue state. Even here, teachers need supplies. I never hesitated to send more with my son to school.
jul 20, 2025, 9:53 pm • 2 0 • view
Parents wanted cheaper taxes and vote against school levies then complain that they have to foot the bill for supplies for the schools. Why do you think you have to buy all those supplies, Karen?
jul 21, 2025, 1:01 am • 2 0 • view
I’ve been a teacher for 23 years now. The majority of parents don’t even buy the supplies anymore. They just send in their kids with a backpack and that’s it. Just wait till they find out next month that there is no more free breakfast and lunch.
jul 21, 2025, 11:23 am • 0 0 • view
True, but I’m a teacher and that list is excessive. Poor parents.
jul 20, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Taxpayers should have a class action lawsuit against this.
jul 21, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
Families often have to supplement classroom supplies. The schools no longer have enough money to stock tissues, wipes, paper towels, and other basic supplies. Many times, teachers provide them to the kids at their own cost. We also used to donate hats and gloves for kids who didn't have any.
jul 20, 2025, 8:45 pm • 9 0 • view
We all brought 1 or 2 boxes of Kleenex (puffs, whatever) when I was in school 30 years ago ... at private school ...
jul 20, 2025, 9:02 pm • 5 0 • view
Just think of how many tissues a classroom uses during a cold outbreak. 😪
jul 20, 2025, 9:14 pm • 4 0 • view
Was making the point that tissues aren't exactly a "new" school supply more than anything else. 50-60 boxes will last a good while (except maybe with younger kids)
jul 20, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I never had to have more than the basic pens, pencils, notebooks, folders, etc. And my son never had to bring things like kleenex, disinfectant wipes, paper towels, or a ream of copy paper. The school should provide those items.
jul 20, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I am glad you live in an area that is able to fund it's schools better than ours. We live in a pretty poor city. A lot of people covering classes are not even teachers. That uis why partial federal funding of schools is so important. We lost that funding due to Trump & republicans budget slashing.
jul 21, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
Taxpayers passed a $4M referendum for our school district the last 2 bienium. It's added to our property taxes.
jul 21, 2025, 1:28 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe schools should teach what "voluntary" means. Like "this list is voluntary" or "voting on the school budget was voluntary" or "showing up for school board budget meetings is voluntary."
jul 20, 2025, 9:10 pm • 1 0 • view
This is also why seniors in red states feel they cannot afford their property taxes. I wish they could learn to connect the dots.
jul 20, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Another hidden Reep tax. They laugh; we pay.
jul 20, 2025, 11:21 pm • 1 0 • view
blue states too! 🙋🏻♀️
jul 21, 2025, 12:54 am • 7 0 • view
Even in blue states teachers have to buy their own supplies.
jul 20, 2025, 8:06 pm • 6 0 • view
You forgot billion dollar prisons. Schools defended. Hospitals closing down all over the place and that money is going to prison building and military weaponry for LE depts.. js
jul 21, 2025, 9:53 am • 0 0 • view
Why are it the responsibility of the teacher to supply the student? My kids always supplied their own crayons and scissors.
jul 20, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Could marcy**** be any more of a jerk??
jul 20, 2025, 8:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Beware who you vote for.
jul 20, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Teachers should just stop buying them. As hard as it may be to see your kids without supplies, nothing will change until people wake up about it.
jul 20, 2025, 8:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Also, there are parents who can't afford supplies and their kids won't go without-teachers will buy them. But so many people who complain about supplies have no problem paying $8 for a cup of coffee. Perspective is so important.
jul 20, 2025, 8:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Also, the mainstream American culture wants a "good education" for kids but don't want tax increases for school districts. My school district went 30 years without a tax increase. Try living on the same salary you lived on 30 years ago.
jul 20, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
My shithole red state has never paid for school supplies. I didn't even know there were states that did!
jul 20, 2025, 8:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Same!
jul 20, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. These things are not provided because we are not funded for that.
jul 21, 2025, 4:19 pm • 0 0 • view
It also CLEARLY says "this list is VOLUNTARY" The demographic of TRULY STUPID people who just LOOK for shit to be mad about is way bigger than it needs to be.
jul 20, 2025, 8:08 pm • 7 0 • view
Out of curiosity, who, exactly do they think the teachers are teaching, if not their kids. 🤔🤦 I guess they could use a primer in basic logic.
jul 20, 2025, 7:48 pm • 3 0 • view
😡😡
jul 21, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 0 • view
Actually, around 60 years ago, I recall a box of Crayolas on my school list.
jul 20, 2025, 9:47 pm • 1 0 • view
In our state, $60M in Fed school funding was canceled. I don't know if it was DOGE or Big Ugly Bill. Teacher I know got laid-off. She was working with disabled kids in education. ☹️
jul 20, 2025, 9:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Gone are the days when our electeds actually did what the majority of their constituents want. Local government in a once very liberal city is the same. They do what they want, politely listen to us, then do what they want regardless. It’s all very disheartening. WE THE PEOPLE need to RISE UP
jul 20, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Your taxes are also going to funding a highly paid security service (ICE) that: 1. Will be the largest police force in the US, by far. 2. Will make much more money than teachers. 3. Will function as the private police force of DJT & Stephen Miller 4. Will largely not be accountable to the courts.
jul 21, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
We need Demoratic Socialists/progressives in every city/county/state and DC. I understand how important it is to beat the MAGATS but this time the centrist Dems need to listen to the real left. End the oligarchy. If MAGATS in poverty got the kind of programs in Denmark here, maybe a few would wakeup
jul 21, 2025, 5:36 am • 2 1 • view
Exactly. The GOP is the destroyer of the American Dream. Sucking up all the resources. Leaving us high and dry. They claim to be Christians but I don't see what is Christ-like about them, which is why I left the church. Republicans need a baptism. Niagara Falls isn't big enough.
jul 20, 2025, 8:43 pm • 4 0 • view
Despite parent support teachers who are woefully underpaid buy school supplies out of their own pockets. Each year I donated a bundle of paper towels, organic cleaning products for grimy desks, and boxes of tissues for each year. Every few months I brought a new batch to school. Support teachers!
jul 21, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Marcy can GFHS.
jul 20, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Its not just GOP States and its not new I retired from classroom in 2002... always paid for my own supplies in a blue state
jul 20, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
This will probably get worse as the government cuts to education take effect across the nation. Authoritarians smash education so they can have more control, less pushback.
jul 21, 2025, 11:37 am • 0 0 • view
It has always been like that where I am in the lower Rio grande valley of Texas. When I lived in MN in the ‘90’s, they had a supply room. In TX, I had to buy almost everything that wasn’t on the supply list. Paper, pens, room decor, etc.
jul 20, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I remember the days when all these things were provided.. Now I have to donate just so my grandkids and other children have the things they need to learn. 🤷♀️
jul 28, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
🤬🤬🤬🤬
jul 21, 2025, 4:37 am • 0 0 • view
Bad enough they require such an extensive list of supplies - but it's made worse by the requirement that purchases be of specific name brand items. No discount storage bags, has to be Ziploc. That can blow a big hole in someone's budget.
jul 20, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Are they gonna trash Costco zip bags? Probably not. I’m not paying that premium cause some Karen wants to be fancy. 😡
jul 20, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I love the 12 glue sticks! Are they encouraging kids to eat glue now? I imagine the point of the bags is that they zip rather than fold over.
jul 20, 2025, 8:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I guess so, but you can get generic brand zip bags as well.
jul 20, 2025, 10:38 pm • 1 0 • view
I bet the ziplock refers to reclosable bags more than the actual brand. Some sandwich bags have the fold over close thing and those aren’t helpful in the classroom.
jul 20, 2025, 8:30 pm • 1 0 • view
My friend's daughter was told they had to be those specifically named brands. Not like ziplocs, they had to be ziplocs.
jul 20, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Hmm. I wonder why. Are they thicker? Stronger? Have better grip when the close? 🤷🏻♀️ I know people don’t like to be asked for Ticonderoga pencils bc they cost more but other brands don’t sharpen well or last as long.
jul 20, 2025, 8:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, when a school requests a name brand of a product, the quality is usually why. If a kid can get by with using one of an item instead of go through a dozen a week, the supplies last longer and supply more children.
jul 20, 2025, 9:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Thank your representatives with not voting for them who voted for this disaster
jul 20, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
When i was a kid in the early 80s …these supplies were a pretty normal burden for the parents. crayons, pencils, notebooks etc. The only class that provided the supplies was Art.
jul 21, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
But the kleenex, paper towels dry eraser etc that was on the school…
jul 21, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 0 • view
What do they think? That the supplies are just magically there at the beginning of the year? A teacher bought them for your kid because you won't! It's always been like that! The teacher isn't asking for personal stuff! This person probably thinks its a woke thing. Asshole. Sorry. Flashback.
jul 20, 2025, 11:48 pm • 11 0 • view
💯🎯
jul 20, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
😡😡😡
jul 20, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Marcy is an idiot who obviously knows nothing about education or what a classroom needs.
jul 21, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
That’s why everyone was warned years ago, to vote blue up and down the ticket, that repuglicans were going to infiltrate school boards….
jul 20, 2025, 11:02 pm • 2 0 • view
My kids are in their 30-40s and this is what their school lists always looked like. We were in a blue state. Yes, newby mom, you are donating to supplies for the classroom for the year to take care of all of the students.
jul 21, 2025, 4:07 am • 1 0 • view
Why the snark? My supply list didn’t look like this as a kid. For example, I didn’t have to bring chalk or chalkboard erasers whereas today expo markers are always on the list. Red state. (Small) inner city.
jul 21, 2025, 5:13 am • 0 0 • view
The savings from neglecting our children has allowed the government to fund a secret police force with a military-sized budget.
jul 21, 2025, 2:50 pm • 3 1 • view
Public school fees per student can totally wreck a family’s finances. 10 years ago, we had to pay $150 per kid to attend public high school.
jul 20, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
More to the point, god forbid we provide support and supplies for all students. The mindset in the image is why the GOP has gotten away with cutting school funding: selfishness
jul 20, 2025, 7:45 pm • 3 0 • view
What is it with parents constantly complaining about supply lists? Do you not see that Republicans consistently defund public schools. Believe me they will go through this list and more and more and the teacher will be picking up the tab.
jul 21, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
Looks very much like the lists I used to get when my kids were in elementary school which was well before the current FOTUS was in office, even for the first term.
jul 21, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
The last 10 years I’ve spent well over $1k a year on school supplies and classroom needs. God forbid we ask to share the cost with you, the parent
jul 21, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol, even if the pay is good, who is expected to bring their own supplies to work?
jul 21, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
We should be happy to help the kids, not the billionaires, but if they steal from us, the kids still need supplies.
jul 20, 2025, 8:42 pm • 6 0 • view
Every penny that the American people make is the American people's money. Taxes are to serve the people. Rich people got enough money, they don't need to take ours. They are pocketing our taxes and make us into servants. It might not be a good idea after all, we'll see.
jul 20, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't forget bombs. Tax cuts for the rich and bombs.
jul 21, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 0 • view
And now they have defunded school lunches and support services for students with special needs. Can your community school now afford to keep the reading specialist or SPED teacher to help your grandchildren succeed? We reap what we & our neighbors sow.
jul 21, 2025, 9:59 am • 0 0 • view
Just a friendly reminder to show support for the teachers. Stop complaining about school supplies. youtu.be/OWF3YT8sRH8?...
jul 27, 2025, 3:46 pm • 1 0 • view
The push to defund public education and replace with private religious schools has been on since desegregation and also the inclusion of sex ed (oh, and teaching evolution)
jul 20, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view