Short vent.
We won't find out the actual teachers for our kids until this weekend or early next week.
Each teacher has a supply list that deviates slightly from the standard list for the grade.
Do I buy 6 speckled composition books, or 8? Do I buy 4 packs of crayons or 2? Do I buy 25 glue sticks or 30? A 3-inch three ring binder or a 1.5 inch three ring binder?
Normally, I would err on the side of caution and just buy the higher amount, but the standard list has already cost me SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS. Are you kidding me??? And trust me, I was shopping for deals--I got crayons for 25 cents a pack and glue sticks at 1/4 the price I could find anywhere else. But after the folders and notebooks and binders and clorox wipes (well, generic) and baggies and hand sanitizers and pencils, it adds up.
And I cannot wait until next week to go shopping, due to other circumstances it just isn't possible. So, whoever her teacher is will have to deal with the "standard grade list" supplies. Sorry.
Oh, and I was a rebel and didn't buy her the plain black and white speckled composition books. She got black and white patterned ones and a green speckled one and a blue speckled one. Same price, but much more fun. Just call me a non-conformist.
I think I am going to go look at the photos from my in-laws farm again, I need to calm down and breathe deep.
GIZMO
21 hours ago
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That's insanely ridiculous! Seriously. Are you sure that list wasn't just for the ENTIRE class? 30 glue sticks for one person? WHAT?!?! 6 composition notebooks??
Ok - let me rant about the composition notebooks; we've got like 8 of them sitting around with only the first 15 pages used. It's like they want one composition notebook for each "subject." "Writer's notebook," "spelling notebook," etc. . . what I'm saying is - why can't they just divide up ONE composition notebook into different sections for those subjects? Anyway - this year I am refusing to buy new composition notebooks, instead we just ripped the used pages out and ta-da!!
School - want a scam. (I'm totally kidding). But, your school supply list really sounds excessive for one person.
yeah, I am pretty sure what they do is figures "x number of students won't be able to buy supplies" so they have the rest of the students cover their supplies. (only, at this rate, I won't be able to buy supplies either!) just a theory of mine.
Also, I saw the bag of supplies that are given to each teacher at the beginning of the year from the school system and it is pretty skimpy. They give them chalk when no one uses chalk boards any more, so I am providing 4 dry erase markers and a dry eraser.
You have to provide clorox wipes and hand sanitizer?! Have the schools gotten so poor they had to fire the janitors and stop stocking soap in the bathrooms? Wow. I think when I was in elementary school the list included 1 notebook, 5 folders, some pencils, a couple (like 3) gluesticks and some crayons (the really lucky kids got the 64 pack with the sharpener in the back). Like $10 worth of stuff. Apparently times change.
I feel your pain!!!! My school supplies for 2 kids totalled $150...and that was only what was on the list. That didn't include backpacks or lunchboxes or shoes. My 3rd grader's list had two sections...a classroom section and a personal section. They have community paper, crayons, pencils, erasers, etc. And then I KNOW I was buying teacher supplies. Highlighters, Sharpies, post it notes, dry erase markers, dry erase eraser, red pens, clorox wipes, baby wipes, ziplock bags, hand sanitizer...And can someone tel me why I need to send in 3 boxes of Kleenex? I was there on the last day of school last year, and I am pretty sure there were about 80 boxes of Kleenex still there from previous years. I had to send in a ream of copy paper too. Apparently, the school does not allow copies anymore. It is ridiculous.
And WHY do they specify what color notebooks and folders they have to have? Do they not have LABELS?? Do you know how difficult it is to find exactly what is specified?
Oh, I have to comment on this. This will NOT get better. The high school will not give out a list until open house which happens AFTER the sales tax free weekend of school supplies shopping. I have written to the superintendent about this and they apologize for this inconvenience, but will NOT change it.
For the most part in the high school, you have to have separate binders for each subject (thus adding to the weight of the backpack along with the textbooks used!!), lots of note book paper, index cards and pencils. I've tried to get my kids to use the rolling backpacks to take the weight off, but it's "not cool".
I don't know what to tell you, but this is an issue that really bothers me.
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