Each year, public school teachers spend upwards of $500 of their own wages on supplies for their classrooms.
Tissues. Gesundheit.
Your child's teacher has saved your family from 100,000 colds without you ever knowing.
According to Arizona Elementary School teacher Andi Katz, the items she buys and burns through the most frequently are “tissues, antibacterial wipes, glue sticks and regular, crayons, tissues and wipes, markers, scissors, construction paper, tissues and wipes, lined paper, pencils, and did I say tissues and wipes?”
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Photocopies for worksheets, projects, and notices.
Take some initiative and consider rallying other parents to donate a few bucks each for a photo copy fund for the class before your kid's teacher goes all Office Space.
Hand soap. Also hand sanitizer.
Do you have any idea how much soap it takes to clean the hands of thirty kindergarten students? And let's not even think about the high schoolers.
