School Supplies

[Veronica]

No one expects me to spend money on my classroom. However, many of my students do not have the things they need to function in the class. We use a lot of Post Its and the students do a lot of answering on small white boards, so they need EXPO markers, plus pencils, erasers, colorized pencils, scissors and rulers.

I have a token economy in my room and I allow students to "buy" some of those supplies from me. I either purchase them myself or the district supplies some things.

I think CA has moved to a policy of we can only ask for donations. We can't require parents to outfit their kids with basic supplies even. Most of my kids started off the year with what they needed, supplied by their parents but I did end up getting supplies for 3 or 4. We're a third of the way into the school year and the kids are running low on things.

Veronica