How many of you (whether your child goes to brick and mortar, online school or traditional homeschool) donate to your local church or local public school for kids who can't get the supplies they need. I am donating to my church this year again. First they give to the kids who need it from the church. Then they set up to help the community each weekend Friday and Saturday about 4 weeks before school starts. School starts August 25th. So they started the giveaways last weekend. You must bring your child with you to get the school supplies. They put it in the church bulletins and in the local papers to get the community to help out. So there's usually like 6 churches with the ad on the community page.
They give according to grade. Usually the back pack has everything on the list for the individual child. The schools here do it this way they have individual child. Then the Classroom list under it for those who want to help with the classroom.
They have them set out on each table labled K, Grades1-3, Grades 4-5, Grades 6-8 Grades 9-10 and the table for Grades11 -12. That's how the lists are set up They have a back pack filled with the lists from that grade. They start the drive in early june so they can get everything by mid-July and if they still need anything they give a list of what they still need. Then buy the rest of what they don't have to make sure each back pack has everything. Usually the backpacks are a plain solid color and a decent quality nothing super fancy but sturdy maybe $5-$10.
Then I noticed something about our community when I was in the store the other day getting our whiteboard. My daughter is homeschooled. There were some kids in the store with their mom asking for a "cool" folder so they have something better than a plain one and the mother said, "No. we are going to that community drive. If them people at the churches wanna give it away I'm not about to spend my money on it! I can use that for me."
I know I'm moving but this makes me not wanna do it in future years. Would this make you stop knowing people abuse the giveaways like this. I mean she can afford the supplies what if her kids get something that another kid needs. I don't think it's right