What is your opinion on 'community school supplies'?

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Community school supplies is when you send you child to school with supplies YOU bought and they are for everyone in the classroom to use.  I've read it about this last night, and the more I read about it the more I'm against it.  I have no problem sharing hand sanitizer or tissues, but if I go out and spend money on my child's school needs no one else should be using them except her without her permission. I know some families are struggling, but school starts the same time of year every year, and they have had 3 months of summer vacation to buy stuff.  There are back to school giveaways, and I've even donated to some.  I should not support every child in the class room because he has lazy parents.  my mom was a single mom and always manged to send me to school with what I needed in the days before school giveaways. I see this as Socialism 101.  Don't don't get me started with all the germs that will be shared.

Tiffney · Accepted Answer

I too hate the supply share. I always put my kids name on everything and then covered it with clear nail polish.

raina_vissora · Answer

Personally, I don't have a problem with it.  Kids forget things all the time. When there are community supplies, if Sally forgets her pencil box at home one day, she can just borrow one from the community supply.

Plus, especially with younger children, new supplies often go to waste when they're the only one using them.  Do you have any idea how many half-used boxes of crayons and barely-used pencils I've collected over the years because parents just throw them out at the end of the school year and buy new ones next year?  It's a waste.

I'm also a fan of sharing germs, by the way.  Overuse of hand sanitizer is a BIG reason kids these days get sick so much... they don't get exposed to normal everyday germs, so they don't build up an immunity.

Anonymous · Answer

The first time I saw "paper towels" on the list I was amazed.  Now I just see it as a request for charity from the underfunded school district.

Buy what your child needs.  If you can afford it and want to contribute to the poor children, buy a few of the extra things.  Nobody counts and your child will not be affected in any way if they show up with 2 pencils instead of 2 cartons of pencils.  But you'll get some good karma if you help others.

? · Answer

If we have extra, I send it.  The community school supply list at our school is on a volunteer basis.  I would want it to be there if my child forgot her bookbag.  Which by the way, did happen one time last year when her dad picked her up from daycare.  By the time i figured out she didn't have it, the daycare was closed.  If it wasn't for extra supplies, my child would not have had what she needed that day.  Remember, it's not the child's fault for whatever situation they are in.

? · Answer

It is a bunch of BS I don't do it. Does a kid need 72 pencils on the first day of school? NOPE So I only send in 12 and 1 glue stick (not 3 packs) and deal with it when they run out.  Most of kids parents in my kids classes have two parent households with two incomes double of mine let them do it.

Ann · Answer

Our school requires the same supplies from everyone.  I send them.  If your biggest problem in life is getting ticked off about shared school supplies, you must have a pretty good life.

Anonymous · Answer

my niece and nephew did this at community partnership charter school..ummmm it works out well. They never had any issues and it actually teachers them good marlas and values I think that's the goal I PERSONALLY don't like it..fortunatelly my son is going to success academy charter and they supply every child with their own personal supplies

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What is your opinion on 'community school supplies'?

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