In Baltimore, parents are experiencing a significant increase in the cost of school supplies, particularly for items like book bags, which now can cost around $20. This rise in prices leads many parents to shop earlier to mitigate the financial impact of impending tariffs. Teachers also face an ongoing challenge, often providing supplies for their students out of pocket, a burden that remains common today. Community efforts, such as churches organizing back-to-school drives, aim to assist struggling families by providing necessary supplies for children.
Book bags are really one of the highest-costing items right now. Stores now are trying to utilize different maybe cartoon characters, and they want to appease their children and things like that. So book bags might be, like, $20 for one now.
It's kind of like one of them unwritten rules or them unwritten codes - that I'ma do everything I can to make sure my children have what they need. And I would say that sacrifice that teachers and educators, even when you were doing it back then - it is still very much so embodied today by someone who's in that role, including myself.
As a community, I think we all have to just pitch in. Churches are pitching in to do back-to-school drives because everyone is struggling.
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