Taking two full trash bags of supplies to the school on orientation day. The bags represented just part of each child's list. Every year our school supply list is 80% standard business supplies like copy paper, dry erase markers, paper towels, hand sanitizer, and one year, even toilet paper! There's no need to label most of the items we send because they won't belong to any individual child, but rather to the class or grade as a whole. These are the kinds of general operating supplies most employers are expected to simply provide. I've worked in for-profit, non-profit, public, and private sectors and I've never been asked to bring in my own copy paper, dry erase markers, or other basic business supplies. Maryland is the wealthiest state in the union (as measured by median household income, 3rd wealthiest by per capita income) so the only conclusion I can draw from these lists is that despite lofty rhetoric from politicians about children being the future...