If unwell, bring tissue
I reckon we should institute a new rule. If the child has an extremely runny nose, the parent should send a box of tissue with the child each day. I can't hold onto up with the tissue usage right now. They are going through one box each day. What do you do about tissue during cold and allergy season?
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Can you send out a message to parents and ask for some tissues?
This. Just send an email and ask. We periodically get emails asking for extra snack and kleenex donations. I almost always pick some up to send in with my kid. My own classroom supply might be able to make it through the year, but if not, I’ll ask. Our school does provide some...
I did. 🙁 I received one box.
My kid’s teacher puts a wish list on her weekly newsletter. Sometimes it’s things like balloons for a celebration but recently it was Clorox wipes. I always try to meet these needs. I personally keep a lot of tissues in my house so I would happily send a box or two if she aske...
Our school provides tissues.
Our school provided tissues with Covid funds. Now they do not. A parent last year went to Costco and bought a bunch and brought them in to our small school. When I run out, I plan to ask the PTO to get me more.
Ours doesn't
When I was a student, my school provided tissues, but a few teachers would limit you. Like you only get 2 per day. They were sandpaper anyways, but you had unlimited supply???
I send an email and let them know that their little noses are getting red from the sandpaper tissue the school provides. I end up getting a lot of boxes!
I send my kids with their own box whenever they are sick. I wish my students would do the same…
My biggest beef is these high school kids who pull like 4-5 tissues, do a small blow, then toss them all in the garbage. Often, they immediately grab another handful of tissues to do it again. It is so wasteful and drives me BONKERS.
I steal a roll of toilet paper from the bathroom.
Same
Roll of toilet paper. I teach middle school, so every tissue, every pencil, every sheet of paper is teacher paid. I only buy so many supplies out of pocket and when they're gone, they're gone.
I have a toilet roll holder on my wall above the trashcan! I had to stop filling it though because I have a gaggle of boys that want to blow their nose constantly so they can wander around, hang out by the trash can, whatever. It’s super disruptive, so now I’m “out of rolls” ...
I’ve told parents they have to send their child with a box of the kid has an excessively runny nose. It’s also super disruptive if they keep having to get up to get tissues. Just put it on their desk, put a trash can next to them, call it a day.
The only extra credit I give is 5 points on a summative grade if kids bring in a full-sized box of tissue. They can only bring one box (no multiple boxes to go past 5 points). I get stocked up at the end of the fall & spring semester when students are scrambling for extra ...
i knew a teacher who gave extra credit for bringing him candles for the classroom. i dropped his class for other reasons but that sums him up
Our school supply list asks for 3 tissue boxes. Occasionally, we have to request more mid-year. I keep my own supply for myself hidden under my desk. When I was in high school, we had an English teacher whose rule was whoever took the last tissue had to bring in the next box.
Just send out a message asking for donations. I'm sure at least one parent will buy a costco pack to send in.
Ngl I take the schools toilet paper and we use that. I don’t buy tissues for myself either so not buying it for work.
When i was a kid part of our supplies list was bringing kleenexes
I'm not a teacher but I do ask my kids teachers to tell me when they're low on any supplies so I can stock them up
Honestly, I kinda love this… because it’s always the same kids who get like 10 tissues at a time
I think teachers should communicate with parents and let them know when they are low on supplies.
I did. I received one box.
My district doesn't supply tissues. So what I do at the end of each year is due an extra credit project where the kids have to bring in a brand new tissue box and then we decorate them with a concept that we learned about that year they basically put the who what when where wh...
The kids can use paper towels above the sink in my classroom when the tissues run out.
I had to buy my own classroom tissues. If we ran out, I'd send a student to the restroom to bring back "tubular Kleenex."
I much more like: If sick is not allergies, stay home.
When I bring a box of tissues because I'm sick, it's empty by third period. Second if they smell like vicks vaporub
If the kid is sick constantly then wear a mask and clean the air. Teachers are having a hard time learning how to handle the ongoing pandemic.
Tissues are sent in with school supplies in the beginning of the year and a message is sent when they run low throughout the year. Same with other supplies.
Maybe they should stay at home if they are sick instead of spreading it to other kids and their families. Asking for supplies is a good idea but if they are unwell the parents should be told not to send them to school or if they do then expect a phone call to come and pick t...
They do have these things called handkerchiefs.
if he has other symptoms, (like flu like symptoms) obviously call the parents and tell them the kid has runnny nose, but also **insert symptoms here**.
Paper towels at the sink