I guess I am one of those evil teachers who doesn't give a supply list, but maybe that is because it's high school and this is my list:
-1 spiral notebook with at least 100 pages just for my class.
-pencils
-pens(blue/black for work, red or green for corrections)
-1 section of your binder (or a separate binder) just for my class
-loose leaf paper
-for students in French III or higher they need a dictionary as well- which they can order through me for $5.33 (I always collect the $$ first)
Beyond that, kids are on their own. As far as kleenex my students always want extra credit for bringing it in-I don't do that, in my class if you want extra credit you have to work for it.(and 9 times out of 10 it's the students with 100% already that do the work) I buy tissue when it's on sale, and hope that students will bring some in as well - which happens from time to time.
Cleaning supplies would be nice, but I've found 4 rolls of generic paper towels(per year) and generic cleaner works well on the desks. Custodians at our school are supposed to clean the desks once a week, but they barely do anything other than empty the trash. Detention = cleaning desks and scraping gum in my class.
I don't give out many detentions, you can probably guess why.
It would be great if our school actually bought us all the supplies I would really like to have, but I make do with the whopping $20-40 a semester for white board markers, paper clips,etc.... Class decorations, now that is a different story- all of my posters came out of my own pocket, as did the vast majority of films that I have shown (or clips), music, etc... as do incentives did you all know that H.S. students love stickers?- Well mine do..but anyhow...
Happy summer.
Summer school ends in a week for me. YES!