40 People Share Where the Kids in Their Class Who Never Had a Pencil Ended Up

Here’s another poignant post to remind us that sometimes, if people seem disorganized and unprepared and don’t show up with the supplies that they need, it might not be a problem of their personal work ethic or organization level.

Some people might be in a situation where they genuinely can’t afford those supplies, or in a situation where their circumstances take up so much of their mental and emotional bandwidth that they just don’t have the capacity to worry about things like whether they remembered a pencil.