Are public schools really like this now?

[The Grand Nudger]

When I went to school, I basically only needed to bring a notebook and a pencil.

My boyfriend raised a woman's child, because she considered him too troublesome to raise (he was almost done with high school when I met my boyfriend) and he considers my boyfriend his father.

So my boyfriend's "son" has kids of his own.  

This girl is starting her very first year of school, and the list of stuff she needs is ridiculous.

She needs baby wipes, paper towels, dry erasable pens, these items have to be a "specific" brand.

The notebooks have to be a certain color.

This is public school.  Wouldn't the school normally provide such things as paper towels and baby wipes and dry erasable pens?  

The only thing I can figure is that the school is depending on the parents to provide that which the school automatically should.

On the one hand, school funding has been cut - so they now depend on children bringing their own materials - on the other, our entire society has been bought by corporate interests...why does this surprise you?

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Then I found out that these weren't supplies for my daughter to keep in her desk and use during the school day, they were handed over to the teacher to do as she wished.
So I only buy a few things off the list that I know mu daughter needs and will use like a backpack and pencils. The rest like Kleenex, reams of paper and Clorox wipes can be supplied out of the teacher's or school's pockets. They also get a tax deduction for buying their supplies; parents don't

-Teresa

Yep, we're faced with a choice.  Buy the good shit or let our kids get strep.  So we buy the good shit.  School starts next week....the wife and I are dead broke buying shit for four classrooms.  No thanks, strep.  It's a good thing we're here, because these other parents are poor as shit, and we know it, because they all work for us. The clorox wipes are just better. School still treats us like white trash, because we "aint from round here, so they don't know us". Yeah, Cletus, we know we aint from round here. : sigh :

I hate to have to pull my privelege, but when they sent a dcf fucker to my house last year rather than acknowledge that they have an opiod problem....at their elementary school......because my kindergartener ended up with somebody else's pills in her backpack, I lawyered right the fuck up and made them release a public statement at the county board level. Now they avoid questioning my spawn. It didn't have to be like this, it shouldn't be like this.

/done venting