AGREED! In the meantime, teachers and schools must find a way to provide students with the materials they need. Sometimes this means sticking to the very basics of paper, pencils, erasures, crayons, scissors and glue. Then you do what you can to fill the gaps. Teachers are very creative people and do find ways to make things work...at least the good ones do. What's even more disturbing are the textbooks. Have you looked at any of them lately? Especially the history and science textbooks. The history texts are highly incomplete (focusing mainly on white history only) and the science texts are so outdated that it isn't funny. Good thing we have the internet where we can find other sources of updated and more complete information to bring to our students. Oh...and don't forget the state standards. The general gist of that is that all students must meet set guidelines...good luck doing it with the bare minimum materials. In addition, for schools who don't meet the state standards for 2 years in a row...they lose their principal. If the trend continues, teachers lose their jobs. Now...I would agree with that if all teachers had adequate materials to teach with, but they just don't. What is the old saying? Make due, use it up or go without.

Michelle