Back to School: It costs how much?

I spent today buying my foster kids back to school stuff. I'm surprised at how much the schools want them to have.  For example, we needed 2 boxes of kleenex, 3 packages of ruled 3x5 cards, a calculator, graph paper and multiple pencils, notebooks and folders.

Naturally, the kids need clothes too, so we shopped for gym shoes, jeans, and shirts.  For girls, I am always surprised at how sexualized the young girls clothing is: do we really need to see their tummies at age 6?

All totaled, I think I ended up with a couple hundred dollars of stuff.  Let's hope they don't use all the paper, pens and clothing before Christmas!