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Originally posted by aephi alum
Liquid soap? 
That list isn't too dissimilar from what I had to have when I was in elementary school 20ish years ago - although we had to have composition books, not looseleaf. But our school supplies were ours, not donated to some community chest.
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My list was also very similar except for the liquid soap. I attended Catholic and private school, and they have even less money than public schools. We didn't have to provide for a community chest as far as I recall. We had to buy pens, pencils, crayons, a compass, erasers, a calculator, notebooks, a dictionary, a package of looseleaf paper, folders, and a binder for ourselves. These supplies changed depending on the grade I was in.
I completely understand that teachers cannot afford and should not be expected to purchase all of these supplies for their students and their classrooms.
I think that Staples or another store has some type of program where they donate cash back to a school district. Maybe that could help. I don't know the details, but I remember seeing some commercials about that.