[Taualumna]

Originally Posted by SOPi_Jawbreaker

I also was in elementary school during the 80's too. Wow, you had French in third grade? We didn't start foreign languages until 8th grade. For elementary school, we had to supply our own pencils, erasers, and folders/notebooks/composition books (whichever one the teacher preferred). But the school provided scissors, crayons, glue, rulers, bookcovers, and art supplies. Some student woulld bring their own crayons because the ones the school supplied were the basic 8-pack. A few of the teachers would ask for boxes of tissues on their supply lists, but they made a note that it was voluntary. We never had to bring our own personal supply of tissues, wipes, or plastic bags. Then again, I don't think disinfecting everything was as a big a thing in the 80's. I don't remember us ever having to wipe down our desk with any kind of disinfectant. If you spilled glue on your desk, you had to wipe as much of it off as you can with a damp paper towel. But other than that, our clean-up consisted of us throwing away scrap paper, putting away supplies, clearing our desks, and putting our chairs upside down on top of our desks so the janitors could clean.

I'm from Canada, and depending on the jursidiction, French can start anywhere between kindergarten and Grade 5.

Speaking of crayons, I don't think Crayola makes 8-packs anymore.