NEW YORK – Parents at Brooklyn’s Public School 107 are tasked with buying brand name paper towels, baby wipes and unscented hand soap to go along with a long list of school supplies this year.

At Middle School 51, parents must provide “a whopping 27 different supplies, including two highlighters, four folders, a stapler, hole-punch and 24 ballpoint pens,” the New York Daily News reports.

The back-to-school supply demands are costing many parents more than bargained for, and some believe the financial obligation is getting out of hand.

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“There’s a problem when we have to buy disinfecting wipes and paper towels!” Mona Davids, president of the New York City Parents Union, told the news site. “My list even asks for two reams of copy paper!”

“Last year, I must have spent $100 just on wipes,” Public School 116 parent Ted Leather said. “The reality is if the parents don’t buy the wipes, the cafeteria doesn’t get cleaned.”

Leather told the Daily News that this year his son was asked to bring 10 marble composition notebooks, a 12-pack of Sharpies, and numerous other supplies.

New York City parents aren’t the only ones grumbling about the growing supply lists.

“Various school systems across the 9 On Your Side viewing area request the following items, per student: 8 marble composition books for a 6th grader, for some schools, a separate music and art supply list, and for high school students, USB drives, fancy calculators, and other gadgets, based in the types of classes students are registered in,” North Carolina’s WNCT-TV station reports.

“One of my kids said it is an example of living in a socialist society,” Barbara Whitehead told the TV station. “Those who can, but the supplies and the teacher takes yours and gives to those who can’t or won’t buy! I think it is ridiculously out of control!”

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Parents near Albany, New York are also raising concerns about their lengthy back-to-school supply lists, according to WNYT News Channel 13.

“It’s different from previous years because there was so much more on it, especially for the middle school girl,” said Sherry Butler, a retired teacher, whose daughter was asked to bring in calculators, a USB drive, as well as personal hygiene items.

“I got her tissues and wipes and things like that: different things that, when I went to school, we didn’t require,” she said.

The National School Supply Lists Directory claims the average school list contains 18 items this year, up 29 percent over 2013. The National Retail Federation contends overall supplies, which presumably includes clothes, has jumped 5 percent to $669.28, WNYT reports.

Some schools are also apparently even asking parents to send their kids to school with a “Personal Technology Device with a 7-inch screen (or larger) – tablet, Chromebook, laptop, etc,” according to the supply list at Oberon Middle School in Arvada, Colorado.

“Paying for it out of your own pocket is kind of a surprise,” parent Cliff Hannam told 9news.com.

“A lot of families may not be able to afford a personal iPad or laptop,” he said. “If you have a couple of students in school, it could be difficult.”

Arvada school officials contend that if students’ parents don’t buy them a device the district will supply them with a loaner, which will undoubtedly draw the ridicule of some of their more well-off peers.