[tssva]

Schools still want people to donate paper? My local school system got rid of most printers/copiers years ago and it takes administration approval to print something on the few that remain. My daughter is a senior and I don’t think she has brought home a piece of paper from school since 5th grade.

[Suppafly]

The grade schools do, high schools barely seem to use paper.

[bombcar]

Grade schools use tons of it unless they buy large amounts of workbooks each year. Cheaper for them to get free paper and photocopy.

[tssva]

The grade schools around here don’t. It takes permission from a vice principal to print or copy anything. Mostly the printers/copiers are for administrative need only. All 2nd - 12th graders have school issued Chromebooks which go to and from school with them. Kindergarten and 1st grade have classroom issued Chromebooks which they use. All worksheets/workbooks are electronic.

Elimination of most printers and restrictions on the use of remaining ones was one of the cost saving measures put in place to offset the cost of issuing Chromebooks system wide. Others include getting rid of physical text books and elimination of most classroom computers. Classroom computers remain when needed for specific curriculum. For instance my daughter”s architectural drawing classes had computers for running Autocad and Revit.