(July 30, 2017 at 5:41 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: When I went to school, I basically only needed to bring a notebook and a pencil.
Same here. But the quality of education, at least at the very good public school my kid is at, is so far beyond what I received in K-2 that I'm happy to pony up the 30 or 40 bucks a year to give the teacher what they need to do their job. Could they do it for 20 instead of 40? Maybe. But the curriculum is so aggressive, that I'm on board with giving them the tools to do their job the best they can as easily as they can.
And I imagine a lot of the brand stuff is immaterial. If you buy Bounty when the list said Brawny, I doubt they send it home. I know they don't particularly care at my kids school.
