For a profession that can be obsessive about reusing, recycling and rescuing random items for the classroom, Mary Loung's brainchild seems like such a natural fit, you'd wonder why no one had thought of it earlier.
Educycle, a kind of Craigslist for teachers, helps them sell or pass along usable school materials and shop for ones they need. The 2-month-old site also enables businesses to donate surplus equipment to schools.
Loung, a second-grade teacher in Millbrae, hopes that Educycle will help teachers find affordable supplies, recoup a bit of the money they spend equipping their classrooms and relieve the overflow in teachers' garages.
"We become hoarders," said Loung. "Don't throw away those toilet paper rolls! I might need it." She even has her