Tuesday Open Thread
The Times is reporting that John Muir Elementary's PTA is buying school supplies for all the children at that school this year. They had taken a survey and parents said this was a big issue for them. Buying in bulk allowed the cost to drop from $75 per child to $15 per child. Across Washington state, schools are dropping their supply lists or trimming them down amid increasing costs of supplies — and an increasing number of families in need. The PTA also asked the John Muir teachers what they needed for their classrooms for the upcoming school year and then ordered all those supplies, too. The Times is also conducting its own annual drive for school supplies for low-income students. Bravo to the Muir PTA for listening to its membership about how to spend that hard-earned fundraising pot of dollars.