The 5 school supplies your kid's teacher really wants you to buy...
Admit it parents, the second you drop your child off on that first day of school, you rejoice. The house is quiet again. There aren't extra messes. You don't have to hear "I'm bored!" The happiest day of the year for you is the craziest for your child's teacher. You've spent the summer with one, two, maybe three kids. Trying to keep them entertained and on some sort of schedule. That beautiful day you drop off your kid, is the same day the other forty kids gets dropped off.
That's right, the poor soul who just spent two months catching up on a year's worth of sleep or worked that second job to buy some school supplies, now has all of those kids in her room. Here are the five things teachers really need you to buy.
1. Tissues. You've shoved thirty five kids in a rather small room. Congratulations, it's a petri dish! Kids start sharing thelove the germs the second school starts. So, while you think you don't need to buy just a box of tissues, remember your kid will get sick. When that time comes, he will need something besides his teacher's shirt to wipe his snot on. Yes, it happens, no matter what grade.
2. Hand Sanitizer. Let's be honest, kids are disgusting. You know it; you've spent the last two months trying to figure out how messes can be made so quickly. Give your kid's teacher a small chance at not catching whatever cold is going around. At least, let her pretend and go through a bottle a week. Also, hand sanitizer is great to have to clean up random, unrecognizable sticky mess.
3. Clorox Wipes. Speaking of cleaning up messes, they always happen. Yes, even in those older grades. Actually, probably more than those high schoolers like to admit. Clorox Wipes get everything off, from pencil to pop. It's, also, fun for teachers to wipe down door handles and pretend getting sneezed on by kids didn't get them sick.
4. One extra pack of pencils. I promise you, every teacher has tried every trick to keep a pencil in their classroom. They've traded for a shoe, keys, id's, and cell phones. They've attached flowers, spoons, you name it. And my personal favorite, written "stolen from (insert name here)". It doesn't work, none of it. Want to know a secret, teachers don't care. If the only thing that keeps a student from doing their assignment and getting into trouble is the lack of a pencil, she'll give out that pencil. She'll happily look away if she know that kiddo will go on to do math instead of shoot spit balls. Go ahead and just help her out, buy that one extra pack of pencils. Maybe then she can afford to get her hair cut. The kids have noticed and commented she skips out on it, but they don't know why.
5. Chocolate. Since it's frowned upon, and illegal, to drink wine when looking after thirty five kids who aren't your own, the next best thing is chocolate. Remember when summer was only half over and the kids were having full blown melt downs? You hid in the closet and cried a little yourself. Now subtract the hiding and the crying and add thirty-give kids melting down. That can easily be a day for a teacher. Buy her that bag of chocolate, she'll be more grateful than you could imagine. She might even get to eat a piece during her twenty minute lunch while she's begging the copier to work.
So remember, when you're at the store complaining about buying school supplies, there's at least one teacher in the store with you. She's not only buying for one kid. She's buying for all of the kids who won't have school supplies. She'll make sure they're not left out or embarrassed because they couldn't afford a stick of glue. So, grab these necessities for her, and thank her for getting your kids out of your hair for nine months.
That's right, the poor soul who just spent two months catching up on a year's worth of sleep or worked that second job to buy some school supplies, now has all of those kids in her room. Here are the five things teachers really need you to buy.
1. Tissues. You've shoved thirty five kids in a rather small room. Congratulations, it's a petri dish! Kids start sharing the
2. Hand Sanitizer. Let's be honest, kids are disgusting. You know it; you've spent the last two months trying to figure out how messes can be made so quickly. Give your kid's teacher a small chance at not catching whatever cold is going around. At least, let her pretend and go through a bottle a week. Also, hand sanitizer is great to have to clean up random, unrecognizable sticky mess.
3. Clorox Wipes. Speaking of cleaning up messes, they always happen. Yes, even in those older grades. Actually, probably more than those high schoolers like to admit. Clorox Wipes get everything off, from pencil to pop. It's, also, fun for teachers to wipe down door handles and pretend getting sneezed on by kids didn't get them sick.
4. One extra pack of pencils. I promise you, every teacher has tried every trick to keep a pencil in their classroom. They've traded for a shoe, keys, id's, and cell phones. They've attached flowers, spoons, you name it. And my personal favorite, written "stolen from (insert name here)". It doesn't work, none of it. Want to know a secret, teachers don't care. If the only thing that keeps a student from doing their assignment and getting into trouble is the lack of a pencil, she'll give out that pencil. She'll happily look away if she know that kiddo will go on to do math instead of shoot spit balls. Go ahead and just help her out, buy that one extra pack of pencils. Maybe then she can afford to get her hair cut. The kids have noticed and commented she skips out on it, but they don't know why.
5. Chocolate. Since it's frowned upon, and illegal, to drink wine when looking after thirty five kids who aren't your own, the next best thing is chocolate. Remember when summer was only half over and the kids were having full blown melt downs? You hid in the closet and cried a little yourself. Now subtract the hiding and the crying and add thirty-give kids melting down. That can easily be a day for a teacher. Buy her that bag of chocolate, she'll be more grateful than you could imagine. She might even get to eat a piece during her twenty minute lunch while she's begging the copier to work.
So remember, when you're at the store complaining about buying school supplies, there's at least one teacher in the store with you. She's not only buying for one kid. She's buying for all of the kids who won't have school supplies. She'll make sure they're not left out or embarrassed because they couldn't afford a stick of glue. So, grab these necessities for her, and thank her for getting your kids out of your hair for nine months.
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