No shit: GOP in Michigan won't fund toilet paper for kids in school

[gollygee]

9. That hasn't been on my list of stuff to send for the class yet

but maybe next year. So far I do send Kleenex, dry erase board markers, cleaning supplies, all sorts of various office supplies. The teacher sends home a note from time to time of other stuff she needs, everything from rubber bands to plastic baggies to construction paper, to whatever. But that is about the only thing used in the class we aren't asked to buy.

The scary thing for me is that I live in an affluent school district. Our kid's teacher can send home a list of things she's running low on, and the parents can all afford to buy something so the class has everything it needs without her having to buy it herself. It can be expensive. Less affluent school districts aren't so lucky. My church has a school from a poorer district we've "adopted" where we buy classroom supplies, but I don't know if we raise as much money for them as our school gets from the students' parents, and I don't know if every school has a church sponsoring them.

Schools shouldn't have to rely on charity in order to have paper and pencils and even toilet paper.