Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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Good luck. I am thrilled that this year I did not have to find anything strange. I know if I need something target is out of the grocery store is the place to find it. Happy School Year!!!
Hilarious cartoon. It isn't actually done that way, but I'm not ruling out some kind of dart board system. :)
I think teachers who request weird items should either a) build them into their budget (contrary to popular belief--they do have one) or b) buy them up themselves and sell them to the class or c) at the very least give you the name of the store where you can get one. Also, there is always a lot of controversy and hard feelings about whether or not the school's supply check should get a grade. I say yes to a VERY low grade (which, by the way, is not possible under the KISD system which insists that EVERY assignment be given 100 points in the sacred black book) and loads of time to gather supplies that are generally repeats from other classes.
I so relate to your post! I remember that madness when I was in TX too. Many many stores later, I gave up and pleaded with the teacher to let me substitute for a different color. Luckily, she did.
Thank heavens UT doesn't require school supplies like that (aren't we lucky?). We just wait until the first day, and the teachers give each of them a list of things they'll need, then we go out and get them - but it's limited to a few things like a binder, 2 folders, etc. Nothing like TX. (PHEW)
Good Luck!
Thanks so much. I really wasn't sure how to approach it. With everyone at different levels of computer knowledge, I felt like I didn't make sense to anyone!
Thanks again for inviting me. Love your blog!
Natalie
That is silliness! You would think with the amount of school taxes we pay each year we wouldn't have to track down supplies too! (Grumble, grumble.) :)
Hey Liz!
Ya! I remember you! You lived with the Shoff's for a while right? I need to get all the Doxey address's and see who else is out there. Anyway, I will add you as a family member so we can keep in touch.
Thanks for making the "first contact". :)
Emily
I bet the teachers go to all the local stores after school and watch the parents run around like crazies. It's all in good fun.
Actually, I was a teacher and I would be happy if the student showed up to class with something to write with.
I'm having vivid flashbacks of the Brill list that demanded a certain kind of Big Chief Writing Tablet that you couldn't find anywhere else except in the conveniently packaged PTO school supplies.
Clever marketing tool that is.....insisting on materials that only YOU can provide.
I spent a few days in Oregon and Washington recently. Out of curiosity I picked up a school supply list at a Vancouver, WA Wal Mart. It had a message across the top that thanks to whatever school referendum passed in that district, school supplies were now being provided by the district.
I'm a conservative so this conflicts me a bit. I'm thrilled by the idea but concerned that it means raising taxes and burdening taxpayers to do it. Let's face it: there's NO way a school district will be as frugal and conscientious about money as a parent who has to directly buy the items themselves would be.
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