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Changing needs
e home-schooling selection has expanded greatly in the past decade as the popularity
of teaching children at home has skyrocketed.
"Home-schooling has blown up in the last 10 years. ere is a great community here, and
a lot of home-schooling families shop with us because they know they can get what they
need here," says Barber.
Parents stock up on school supplies for their children or supplemental materials such as
flash cards or summer bridge books.
"Parents and their children come in to get what the big-box stores do not carry. We have
the items like handwriting paper and other supplies year-round. Most of the stores only put
supplies on the shelf before school, but we have what students need, especially when they
run out midyear," says Barber.
Kamilah Evans, a training and curriculum specialist with the Army's Morale, Welfare
and Recreation office at Fort Liberty, has been shopping at School Tools for more than a
decade.
"ey have the best selection in early educational toys and bulletin-board supplies. But
really, I find something new every time I come in here. I push a lot of social/emotional and
cognitive tools for what I do helping military children with anxiety, and I can get everything
here," Evans says.
She likes that she can find her preferred brands such as Kaplan and Melissa & Doug.
"But I don't have to wait two weeks for those things to ship. I can get them same-day here,
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