I’m sure that this Superintendent was summarily fired and then beaten and shot. He actually takes his responsibility seriously? He has no place being an administrator in the public school system.
(Quick background – two years ago my then-10th-grade niece came to live with us and I went back to work teaching high school algebra.)
Two years ago in WV they said that sending home school supply lists was not providing a free education for the students. It was splashed all over the news and blah blah blah – schools now have to supply ALL school supplies. There were exceptions, of course. My Tiffany was in honors English, and I did have to buy the summer reading (since it’s optional, she could have taken regular English), and she’s in the band/dance team, which costs about $1000 a year, not counting the trip.
Anyway, as teachers we were given $50 more for our school money, and told that anything we required for our classes we had to provide for the kids. Paper, pencils, notebooks, folders, binders, calculators, tissues, sanitizer… We could say “I recommend the following materials” if there were things we liked them to have, but we were not allowed to penalize any kid for not having supplies. And yes, many of our high school kids took it quite seriously. “Nope, I don’t carry a pencil. You have to give me one.” every single daggone day!
They haven’t repealed this idea, but they aren’t splashing it all over the news anymore either. So technically we still can’t “require” anything, but most of the kid are bringing at least pencils and paper and stuff like that.
I just got a list. It includes “One ream of pink copier paper”. Why does a high school boy need a ream of pink copier paper? 