Teacher telling ds to share his own equipment.

[Gigglebrain]

So ds is in year 7, I had to buy all his equipment (glue, pens, pencils, etc), as the school does not provide anything. I have no argument with this as I know that schools are struggling, however, .he has told me that he’s run out of his gluestick and needs a new one, as his teachers make him share all his stuff with others in the class.
We are on a major budget, and I struggle to pay for things like this. Aibu to be annoyed about this.

Sweeney not when I have paid for my own glue sticks it's not. Also the flicking of glue around the classroom and the 'borrowing' of glue by other staff who use your room and do not count them in and out.

Suggestions that it is ridiculous or that the PTA should fund are obviously from people who have no idea what dire straights schools are in at the moment. I would prefer. TA to work with the 5 kids who don't speak English in my Year 11 class, or to work with some of the pupils with SEN. Let alone glue!

Still we will all be fine now we have our '£50,000' for 'little extras'

@ShannonRockallMalin I LOVE your son and his class mate!!

I would definitely contact the Form Tutor/Head of Year - and point out you can't afford to keep replacing glue sticks and ask if they have a solution?

One school I worked in in a deprived area, used to hole punch the exercise books and any sheets, then use treasury tags to keep the sheets in the books. (No sticking glue sticks to ceilings).

I don't remember gluing figuring that prominently in my high school education. If the school can't provide it why do they have lessons plans that require it?

YANBU similar situation here! 4 times since September i have had to replace DSS stuff including Geometry sets and scientific calculators because he has been made to share i even sent in a letter with copies of receipts when i got a letter saying i need to provide him with the correct equipment!!!!

@Gigglebrain - I told him to say no, he said he did and was told he had to share.

Why does he have to share and not others? If he has run out because he has shared his, why doesn't someone else have to share with him?

Bizarre logic going on in the head of that teacher imo.

Definitely raise this with the teacher and say that you will provide your son with the necessary equipment to see him through the school year (i.e maximum of 1 glue stick per term not per week or per month) and after that, it is up to the school to provide any necessary equipment to those who don't have any.You are not providing your sons class with the equipment they are using as you're not the Dept of Education and you don't have the budget for it!

But more to the point why are they using glue sticks in year 7? What could they possibly be doing that not only requires one but requires so much gluing that it gets used up in a term?

Oh. And also teach him to say ‘No, and do not tell me to share. The right to own property is a fubdanebtal human right. I will not allow communists to encroach on my basic freedoms.’ Ideal said in an American accent. While standing on a chair. With his hand on his heart.

@malbecfan why don’t you just tell parents to buy ring binders with hole punched paper instead was of exercise books? Surely that would save a lot of aggro?

They glue worksheets into books

@sweetytoddsrazor but they’re in senior school. Surely they are too old to be using work sheets?

Not like primary worksheets but photocopies of questions from text books especially maths and science, extracts from history text books and so on. They cant all have a text book each and they need the info to revise for exams etc.

When the teacher says he has to share get him to reply that his mum has said no and if she has any further objections about him not sharing his own personal supplies to ring you.......

Things my classes have stuck in this week: their Language assessment insert, so they can revise, a picture stimulus for descriptive writing, a poem to annotate, a starter activity matching literary terms to a definition.

Get him to suggest the teacher might have a stapler the ones without glue sticks can borrow.....

@Racecardriver because pages rarely stay in ring binders that go in and out of bags. The holes rip open and before you know it, there are loose pages that are inevitably not named.

I'm starting to feel like I am BU. DS is in y9 and I have never sent him with a glue stick, not been asked to do so. I will have to ask him whether he has to borrow someone else's.

My DS uses a rub out pen with refills. Refills are expensive £4 for 3. A boy in his class ran out and asked if he could ‘borrow’ a refill. I asked did he give you one back? No, at the end of the week he gave me mine back - empty 😒😒😒

Phew just asked and no one brings their own glue sticks at DS's school. The teacher provides them if they need to glue anything into books. I can get off the naughty step again.

What are they using all this glue for? When I was in secondary we used lever arch files.

Admittedly, I teach in a different country, but similar problems! I hand out maybe 2 printed worksheets/starters/exercises per pupil per lesson. It's simply because we no longer use textbooks or workbooks for most subjects (budgets, weight in school bags, disagreements over which textbook to choose...).

No ring binders as they take up too much space in a schoolbag, and papers go missing... No (low) tech as many have no Internet access and using phones is banned. Dyslexia etc mean that extended periods of writing are problematic too... So the humble worksheet is back!

I provide gluesticks from my own supplies to avoid problems, and would never force a pupil to share if they didn't want to though!

@malecfan nobtgey dont. In all my ring binder years maybe ten pages went astray. The worst that would happen was that the binder would get full. It was also much cheaper for parents to buy one set of binders/sleeves and a couple of packs of binder sheets each year as opposed to a couple of exercise books per subject, plus glue sticks, plus scissors. Less waste as well.

@sweenytoddsrazor photocopies makes much more sense, didn’t think of it but we used to get the odd photocopy back in the day although more often than not teachers would just email us links/scans rather than wait by the photocopier. If your kids are using textbooks all the photocopying must he a real pain.

I think the teacher should not have forced him to share - the teacher should have accepted your ds's defence that he wasn't allowed to share his stuff - teacher should have been forced to provide stuff - I don't mean that but when you reverse the situation and it doesn't sound right - you know the teacher is wrong - send an email to teacher and cc in hoy.