A little background information. In my district teachers are given $200 at the beginning of the year to purchase supplies for the entire year. This year with my funds I bought the following a toner cartridge for my classroom printer, couple packs of graph paper, notebook paper, a classroom set of mechanical pencils, 2 packs of expo markers, and an additional classroom calculator (27 calculators for 32 students is tough). This exhausted the funds for supplies, but everything I got was necessary. I would just have to purchase the remaining supplies through out the year as needed.

I work in a title one school, we serve a population that greater than 60% of the students are on free or reduced lunch do to families being under the poverty level. This also means basic school supplies do not get bought, even though the students need them to be successful.

When I left work today I remembered my reddit care package was going to be here.

When I arrived home from work I was greeted by a mountain of packages from staples. I was in shock at the generosity of one individual (Preview thumbnail)

The breakdown of boxes. 15000 sheets of copy paper, I don't think I will ever have to purchase copy paper again!

I teach algebra 2. We graph functions almost every day. The graph paper will really help the kids with out this year! In a single day we have went through 200 sheets before. (2-3 pieces per student x 90)

A classroom set of rulers. To make accurate graphs we need a straight edge. My old classroom set has seen so much wear and tear brand new ones made me smile.

360 pencils. Last year I went through 300 pencils for students (actually probably more) once again basic supplies get forgotten by a lot of families in need. I knew I was going to have to purchase more this year. Thank you again so much.

The last box I noticed soon as I walked up to my door. I saw the Kleenex written on the side of it. This touched my heart today. There's been a virus or bacterial infection making its rounds through the students and faculty this week (myself included). I was going to head to the store and buy tissues because of everyone having a bit of the sniffles. I felt terrible because I had ran out last year and had not replaced them yet. Now we are set for the entire year on tissues too!

Thank you so much for helping this teacher it means so much to me and I am looking forward to sharing this Amazing story of generosity with my students tomorrow. I love my job, I look forward to work every day. Some days are tough and seeing students without supplies makes me feel awful. You've made it so no student in our class will feel like they do not have the basic necessities to be successful.

Thank you so much, I hope this message finds it's way to you. You have really enhanced the classroom experience for all of my students. Thanks for being a hero.

UPDATE When I got home from work there were more boxes waiting on me!!!! I knew they were on the way, but the generosity of my Santa is amazing. Included in the second shipment was notebook paper, a brand new electric pencil sharpener, and TEN scientific calculators which will come in handy since I have more students than calculators. Thank you again so much.

UPDATE 8/29

I also received a package from amazon a couple days ago! I was shocked because I didn't order anything, but when I opened it i might as well have because it was the perfect personal touch. In the package there was a starlord bobble head, a squeaky dog toy (which I originally thought was for stress relief), and lots of expo markers! The starlord was so perfect because I already had groot siting on my desk. Once again thank you for all that you did for us this year. You made what is sometimes a thankless job into something that shows that people really do care about us!