I’m gobsmacked. Our school district offers back to school kits that you can buy at the end of the school year for the next school year. Here is the list for a 1st grader… now let’s play “The Price is NOT 🤬 Right.”
What’s the actual (are you kidding me) retail price?
@MotherDucker 4 boxes of 24 count crayons? Are they eating the other 3 boxes? The fuck?
@ProjectShadow @MotherDucker no, all the extra stuff is for the kids whose parents cannot afford to buy school supplies at all. you can't get any of this stuff on SNAP or WIC
@redenigma @ProjectShadow sure. I totally understand that but it still seems a disproportionate amount of things, even if that is the case. Assuming each classroom has 20 students and 4 classrooms per grade level with each student bringing 50 pencils… that’s 24000 pencils for grades K-5 and our district has 3 elementary schools. That seems…. Extreme.
@MotherDucker @ProjectShadow it seems extreme but pencils get lost, broken or excessively sharpened to useless nubs (not that i know anything about that...) fairly quickly.
also, i think many teachers dream of only 20 kids in a classroom (when lower grades really should have a max of 15)
@redenigma @ProjectShadow funny though, when I google how many pencils a student goes through in a year it seems to jibe. Huh.