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Parent wallets sapped by school supplies
BY RACHEL ULLRICH
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Everyone knows back-to-school
shopping involves more than buy
ing pencils and glue sticks.
That's a lot 0f...
► GLUE. If all kindergartners in
Orange County Schools bought a
4-ounce bottle of Elmer's glue,
they’d have 2,012 ounces of glue.
► PARKING. If all East Chapel Hill
high schoolers had a parking spot,
it would net $171,500 in fees.
► RULERS. If all Orange County
middle school students bought a
ruler, lined up they’d reach more
than a quarter mile.
► PAPER. If all students in both
districts bought one pack of 150
sheets of filler paper, it would add
up to 2,649,300 sheets of paper.
‘Numbers based on 2005-06 enrollment
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There’s the first-day outfit, the
book covers, the gel pens —and
that ever-important Hello Kitty
lunchbox and backpack set.
But sometimes the costs of get
ting children back to school can be
overwhelming for parents.
They go from buying tissues
and crayons in first grade to park
ing passes running SIOO at East
Chapel Hill High —and prom tick
ets as their children get older.
And more advanced classes
require more significant funding,
including fees for AP testing and
equipment such as graphing cal
culators.
Though many schools provide
opportunities to borrow such
equipment, school lists still include
the basic supplies —and often
more.
One fixture on most schools’ lists
is a disclosure: “Please note that
teachers might ask for additional
subject supplies.”
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school). We huy pretty much everything
on the list and a little extra. ”
BRENDA RAY. MOTHER OF A MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
These additional supplies can
include things such as protractors,
colored pencils and other subject
specific items.
“The list is going to be longer
than the one you see,” said Valerie
Reinhardt, principal of Smith
Middle School.
The district officials also exam
ine the supply lists from the schools
and decide whether they are rea
sonable enough for the area.
“We look at the supply lists
through an equity lens,” said
Stephanie Knott, assistant to the
superintendent for community
relations for city schools.
Reinhardt said the districts also
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coordinate efforts to help provide.
“There is funding supplied by
the districts,” Reinhardt said. “The
PTA gives us a lot more money,
too.”
Teachers and counselors said
they look out for students who can
not provide their own supplies and
inform administrators.
“Teachers throughout the year,
instead of going to our parents,
they come to me,” said Lorraine
Hines, family specialist and school
social worker at Hillsborough
Elementary.
Schools’ family specialists can
be contacted about needs for sup
plies, and track and monitor fami-
lies who have needed assistance in
the past.
“I have families I work with ...
that depend on me,” Hines said.
Anyone interested in donating
money or supplies should contact
family specialists at any of the two
districts’ schools.
At a Durham Target on Saturday,
shoppers braved the crowds of pro
crastinators buying their supplies.
“I spend at least $100,” said
Brenda Ray, the parent of a middle
and high schooler. “We buy pretty
much everything on the list and a
little extra.”
Ray said that though her son,
who is entering his sophomore
year, found back-to-school shop
ping a hassle, her middle-school
aged daughter enjoyed buying such
things as locker decorations.
Rising kindergartner Morgan
Ellis and her mom, Melissa Ellis,
finally had success in finding a
lunchbox: a pink Hello Kitty sack.
“It doesn’t have a cup holder,”
Morgan said. “But we can just stuff
it to the side.”
But their first back-to-school
shopping trip has been harmless
enough now that the lunchbox
search is complete, the only thing
Morgan still needs is a pair of ten
nis shoes.
“They’re all too small,” she said.
“My feet are too wide!”
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