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Parents Mad Over Schools Sending ‘Communal’ Supply Lists Need to Get a Grip

Sharing is caring—unless you're one of these unhinged parents.

By Christina Marfice August 7, 2023

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Some parents are fuming about communal school supplies, and is this really what we should be focusing on?

The latest TikTok trend isn’t a fun dance or a delicious snack. It’s parents being completely unhinged over something ridiculous, and can we all please just agree right now to not only stop doing this but also to roast the parents who do? There are a lot of parents making videos and leaving comments because they’re big mad about communal school supplies, and wow, when we say there are more important things to worry about!

Look, this is a pretty common way of doing things. Many schools send out their supply lists asking parents to buy the list of pencils, markers, and glue sticks. Then, on the first day of school, they collect all the supplies and hang on to them all, distributing them to the kids as needed or putting them out only for specific activities. This works for a few different reasons: for one, it’s great for kids to learn to share. And two, kids are great at losing their belongings, and this makes sure their supplies last all year.

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What communal supplies mean! #schoolsupplies #backtoschool #primeday
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But of course, some parents simply can’t see the logic. In the video above, the comments section turned into a dumpster fire of angry parents who wanted their kids to have their own special, private property. One mom even wrote this gem: “I’m happy to provide extra for the community but my child’s things are her f***ing things! Sorry you’re poor but I’m not. Die mad and get f***ed!”

Oof. That prompted a follow-up from the mom in the original video, who explained the repercussions for kids who have “crazy, difficult” parents like that.

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Replying to @Meep you might think you’re getting your way, but your child is currently being protected by her teacher from your disruptive behavior #backtoschool #schoolsupplies
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“Kids who have difficult parents who tell everybody to F off, who are disruptive, who come in and scream yell and have to have everything be different for their special kid—those parents are difficult and those kids know they have difficult parents,” she explained. “They have special deals with their teachers not to bother their crazy mom. Your kid wants to be a part of the school community. She wants to use the crayons that her table group shares. She wants to use the glue sticks that the teacher hands out instead of going to her backpack in the other room to get her personalized glue stick. The reason her sparkly pencil lasts all year is cause she’s embarrassed by her sparkly pencil because most kids don’t have sparkly pencils.”

In other words, parents like this need to get a grip. Is helping provide supplies for your kid’s classmates really worth getting upset over? You know what else you help provide for other people’s kids? Literal schools. Ever heard of taxes?