School Supplies 101: Please send Charmin
Posted
August 16, 2008 at
9:39 pm by
Kymberly
Looking over the obligatory school supply list for the upcoming school year it occurs to me that while I want to be a team-player, some of the items seem to be a bit out-of-control.
I get the need for crayons, pencils, and I’ll even spot the school the Kleenex for all those runny noses and incessant sneezes of the kids who “weren’t even a little bit sick” when their mothers and fathers shoved them out the door that morning.
Now, however, the school has added Clorox wipes to the supply list.
What next? Are we going to be asked to chip in toilet tissue for the restrooms and chicken nuggets for the cafeteria?
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1. GrandmafrmKs. said:
August 16, 2008 @ 11:08 pm
I don’t know Kymberly, It seems every year they want the parents to supply more and more, when there are some parents who barely can afford their own needs, Some can’t at all. My son and his wife took two little kids from their neighborhood shopping for school, b/c dad and mom worked for the aircraft co. here and was laid off,
But you mentioned T.P., when my son was on his first tour in Iraq, the only things they asked for was baby wipes and toilet paper, of course that was at the beginning of Iraq and they do get a lot more now, But it seems our country is getting worse of taking care of the military guys.
Back to school, of course things change every year, but I don’t think parents should have to supply all the stuff they ask for, High school is rediculous also.
2. Andrea said:
August 17, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
This is my biggest pet peeve right now. I have 3 kids in elementary school and 1 starting high school so I get hit X 4 with this crap.
Our elementary school wants the baby wipes, the kleenex, the clorox wipes and gallon size ziploc bags. Tell me, what the hell do I pay taxes for?? I live in NJ, the most taxed state, so its not like the schools are hurting for money. Even worse then this though, is that they as for certain brand names for everything. Mead 5 Star notebooks and portfolios, Ticonderoga pencils, and some brand name colored pencils Ive never heard of. They were $8 for 12, so I refused to buy them. Crayola is apparently not good enough for 4th graders anymore. Last year I sent 2 small Elmers glue sticks instead of 2 big ones and they were returned to me the 1st day. Those suckers went right back the next day. She didnt send them home again but she did make mention of it 3 months later at the parents conference. I just laughed because otherwise I might have been driven to school supply rage.
3. GrandmafrmKs. said:
August 17, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Andrea, I understand what you are saying, my daughter a single parent of 4 girls, 2 high school and 2 elementary, and she too was asked for gallon size zip bags along with other things that make you wonder what are the kids doing,
And they too tell you what name brands they want, even down to the kleenex, so she said she’d get what she could afford, if thats not good enough, the school can buy for her kids, and like you she wonders what the heck school taxes are for, I wonder to, since I don’t use schools but I pay taxes on them every year,
Hope all goes well for you, the rest of the year.
4. Rita said:
August 17, 2008 @ 6:27 pm
The school PTA will cover costs of school supplies if they are a financial hardship. There are forms to fill out and submit. They are expensive. Even with salvaging what we could from last year, and bargain shopping, I spent over $140 on the supplies for two kids today. And, that’s just supplies. No backpacks, no lunchboxes, no clothing.
5. Rita said:
August 17, 2008 @ 6:29 pm
Andrea, I’d be pissed about that if I were you! It seemed to me that the reason (around here) that they give specific brand names was so the kids weren’t competing with each other, with some of them getting real expensive things to have *better* than others. But, to demand *better* is just ridiculous!
I’d start attending school board meetings and complaining about it.
6. Stacey S_MOD said:
August 17, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
Oh I am SO glad you brought this up!!!!
Not only do we get hit up for all the crap on the above list…but I was just notified that school lunches will now be $3.25 per day (organic chicken nuggets? I think not)& I also have to shell out $100 so my kid can take the big yellow bus 3 miles up the friggen street to his PUBLIC school! Not to mention the $250 I just dropped for new clothes & shoes.
Just think….we can soon look forward to…..
sports fees
fund raisers
field trips
school pictures
class rings
year books
etc…
Thank God I have just one!
7. Andrea said:
August 17, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
School pics are the biggest rip off of them all. Here they do it twice a year, in the fall you pay in advance and when they come home they look like crap. However, in the spring, they send the pics home and you decide what you want to keep. Those pics are always adorable so I ended up feeling guilty about them just being shredded back at the Lifetouch offices and I buy them. I swear its a conspiracy
8. GrandmafrmKs. said:
August 17, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
Stacey, thats exactly what some of my kids are facing now, sports fees, class rings, year books, school pictures and yes even field trips when the parent is using her own gas and SUV to transport the kids, And the bus fees on the big yellow bus, I could’nt hardly believe it when she told me it was a couple hundred a year for her two little ones to ride their bus less than a mile to school,
Even tho she is a single parent she does not qualify for any kind of assistance b/c she makes too much money, I wish they would try to raise 4 kids on what she makes, But Thank God the two older girls buy almost all of their own stuff.