When children are not supplied with the necessary equipment for their
work and are too poor to buy for themselves make an appeal to the board
of education asking them to purchase the material needed, which material
should be considered the property of the school and left there from year
to year. Most states require that the school furnish books and equipment
for all who are unable to buy them.
Show by your own example that poor people are just as desirable for
companions as rich ones, other things being equal. See to it that the
children of poor parents be made to forget, while at school, that they
are different from others. See to it that democracy reigns on the
playground.
Supervise all play.
Do not foster the borrowing habit.