Nathan Shute has gotten used to getting school supplies once a year for his daughter Pamela, who is now 13 and going into eighth grade at Drury High School.
On Aug. 17, Shute queued up with dozens of parents and children to pick out free backpacks, magic markers and school supplies. He’s on a fixed income, he said.
Shute and his daughter chose a notepad, lined paper, a simple calculator, pencils, highlighters, erasers, a ruler and a folder, but among the offerings they didn’t find is the $110 Texas Instruments TI-84 calculator she鈥檒l need for math, according to a list of school supplies she received.
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