Why "free" public education doesn't always include school supplies

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  NPR.

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  A new academic year is underway, and with that comes the hallowed ritual of buying school supplies.

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  These days that can mean not just pencils and notebooks for one student,

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  but also cleaning supplies and bulk quantities of stuff to be shared in a classroom.

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  So in the spirit of back to school season,

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  we asked parents to tell us what was on their kid's school supply list,

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  and then we composed a little montage of it.

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  This is the supply list for my kindergartner this year.

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  For my seventh grader.

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  My 10 year old and the 15 year old.

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  Three ring binder.

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  One lunchbox with a handle for easy carrying.

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  Two composition notebooks that were seven and a half by nine and three-quarters inch.

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  One backpack, regular size.

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  Five boxes of crayons.

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  Pencils, whiteboard markers, glue sticks, scissors and so on.

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  Two containers of wet ones.

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  Hand soap.

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  All this really takes me back to my elementary school days, but...

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  Two boxes of wet ones?

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