On a recent drizzly morning at Barre City Elementary & Middle School, middle school teachers Laura Pratt and Tana Cosgrove are unloading heavy cardboard boxes of school supplies. “Let's see, so there are backpacks, lunchboxes, we had a bunch of water bottles, lots of crayons and colored pencils, lots of notebooks, binders, folders, pencils, eraser caps, the typical daily needs of really any age level,” Pratt says.