Holy CRAP! School supply buying newbie here!

[katkat]

Staples I saw was also having a real good sale on some of their school supplies. My mom got some stuff for my oldest 2 and it only cost her like 10 bucks for about 10 folders, 6 packs of paper, pencils, pens, and a thicker folder. Good deal considering how much stuff they need to buy.

I know it is real hard with all 4! Thank gawd they already have their college trust funds set up. Now my son won't get as much as he only has 4 yrs left of HS and then college. But for my 6 yr old by the time she gets to college she should have a good chunk of change to get her going... It is just crazy though.

[eeyoresmiles]

We home school as well, but our daughter went to "regular" school kindergarten and first grade, and I remember the lists well. I can still feel your pain and shock .

[tinannick]

Hey Jai...

Tina- just make sure school doesn't interfere with our party time.

In a million years NEVER!!! I'd never miss a party with dear Jai!

[jaipie]

tinannick said:

In a million years NEVER!!! I'd never miss a party with dear Jai!

Woot!

[SimonsFlame]

Holy crap! Last year when my daughter went to kindergarden we had to pay for the priviledge for all day at $178 a month for 9 months. Then we had to get her supplies. I'm not kidding you when they sent home a note telling the parents to supply them with more glue sticks I was like "fcku off" 20 kids or so in that class that bring 24 glue sticks each at the beginning of the year and it can't last through the whole thing? Give me an f'n break. All of her supplies were communal except for the damn spiral notebook we sent her to school with. The kids didn't even use them. Hello?!? I could've used that notebook damnit! It's a crock of crap. I too remember all of my supplies being my own down to the kleenex's in my desk. Yes I had a desk my daughter didn't. They sit at flipping tables. I had a few things left over from last year that were required for this year and my mom got the rest of them for me and got her some new school clothes too. We were told not to mark names on the supplies which is a crock. If they need help with students from low income families I sure as hell would be happy to help them out with no problem.

And they wanted the 24 pencils I sent her to school with this past Monday (Oh yeah school's already started here) pre-sharpened. Kiss my butt they've got sharpeners at school they can be sharpened as needed. And don't get me started on the school photography from last year the tossers.

*EDIT* Oh yeah forgot to mention...we only got a two weeks notice bout school starting. Yeah that was enough time to get all this crap done...note the sarcasm.

[desertduranie]

My sister's kids' school has fundraiser for no clear goal: just to build a kitty for "extras". She refuses to participate and I don't blame her. I can see a few fundraisers to help pay for a trip, but when the fundraising goes on non stop and you have to bother the neighbors and friends every other week, that's too much. Schools are built with all the latest educational "necessities" like state of the art gyms, but the parents have to provide white board markers? Priorities people!

[starry]

As most of you know I don't have kids of my own so I get all my info from my friends..lol.

Anyway, I have one friend and her list has ................3 bags of candy! Why on earth would a school ask for candy. If this 3rd grade class has 25 kids that's 75 bags of candy! What is this school trying to do, get a leg up on halloween?

[Corene]

Oh the Candy thing! I hate that. Last year, for a while, Rebecca came out of school everyday sucking on a pixie stick that she got from her teacher for "having a good day". I'm all for positive reenforcement and rewards but I'm not really thrilled about her teacher pumping my ADD kid full of sugar just before I picked her up from school. Not to mention the fact that I would be beeaatch enough to bill the school for the cavities they caused.

[luckyweather]

Oh, Boy! I have yet to see the school supply list for my first grader. We just moved to Michigan and I know we have to buy items but I don't know what. When we lived in Connecticut, we didn't have to supply anything but the backpack. At the end of the year, the school gave my daughter a bunch of leftover school supplies, too. I guess we will be using those this year.

I think it is ridiculous to provide supplies for the teacher. In my daughter's Kindergarten class last year, the teacher was always requesting food to make art projects. My husband and I thought 'You don't use food for art projects' so I never sent in anything. My daughter switched classes in the middle of the year and the new teacher thankfully never asked for food. I guess whatever is needed depends on the individual teachers' lesson plans.

I also don't agree with the communal supplies. I, too, also had my own supplies as a kid as well as my own desk. Not to be selfish, but I buy nice supplies for my daughter and I'd rather have her not share the things I buy for her.

J

[La Princess]

When I was in school, the parents bought the kid's supplies. It wasn't shared. That's not right in my opinion. I'd be pissed knowing I was buying stuff my child had to share. I'm all for helping low income kids, but it shouldn't come at the expense of the other parents. Buying candy for the kids to share sounds stupid. I don't blame the teachers for the expenses. They spend a lot of their own money. I blame the administrators who cut class funding yet have meetings where lobster is dinner. I wish I was kidding about the lobster. This was a true story of a low income school not that far from me. Yet another reason why any future children will go to Catholic schools.