Gardner Families,
This week you will be picking up your child’s classroom materials, devices (if you requested them), and art supplies for their art classes. But this is a reminder that LAUSD does NOT pay for student art supplies. Gardner Street’s visual art program is completely funded by our parents - The Friends of Gardner organization. Art classes (and all other FOG funded programs) will still be offered this year and Friends of Gardner is also supplying all of the necessary art supplies for art at home.
To keep it equitable, every child will have the same supplies according to their grade level curriculums. However, as you can imagine, this gets expensive, especially since the usual budget is spent on supplies that are shared by entire classes. So if you are able to pay for your child's supplies, please click the donate button below, or help us avoid credit card fees by donating via Venmo with @Friendsof-Gardner. The cost per kit/child is 16 dollars. This is ABSOLUTELY NOT required. Every student will receive these supplies NO MATTER WHAT. But if you are able, it would help Friends of Gardner to continue to offer more to everyone. And if you happen to have enough to pay for another student’s art supplies as well, it sure would help the cause. We are a community that helps each other, because we’re all in this together.
Once again, this is not required — but it is appreciated. Thanks for being a part of it. We can’t wait to see the creativity that comes from the year ahead.
You can view the supply/device distribution schedule here.