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Oh, I wouldn't be so quick to take that advice. My ds's first-grade teacher made almost daily complaints about him, I tried everything to find some sort of solution, but couldn't even understand the problem. I mean, this woman was calling me on a daily basis with some sort of petty gripe, like...

No, I haven't changed my user name. Perhaps there's more than one parent with a LD child on this board? The whole point about the used bike thread wasn't to put up a chip for people to knock off, but rather to point out that sometimes it just doesn't pay to try to economize in certain areas...

Well now who's painting everyone with the same brush? I can assure you my dh and I don't fit the picture you seem to have of the "typical" parent. No, I'm not a teacher, but I'm a parent and I see what passes for education today. Must I be a parent to judge teachers? I recently had back...

Seems you're the one stirring the pot. why do you persist in following me all over this board responding to my every post? Perhaps you need a hobby.

I want to gag reading this! That's busy work plain and simple. Its at the elementary school level. Just what do they do in college--more of the same? Can't schools think of something for a student to do besides cut up paper and color all day? No wonder there's so many incompentents in the...

You know, you make an excellent point about the required supplies not lasting an entire school year. But that's because that's what parents are asked to send in, we're asked to send in x amount of supplies, so we do. It simply never occured to me that the kids were running low on supplies...

[ Sure enough, there it was floating, not sinking for anything. It was some off brand. The teacher looked at me and said, "Gee, what do you think it's made of?" I said, "Animal fat, for all we know.":rotfl2: Well, lets hope the animal fat was kosher!:rotfl2:

What grade is this? You said HS--High School? In my opinion, that's too childish for a HS project. My dd did something similar for 4th grade, she found it somewhat boring, the assignment was to make a poster of an historical character, using crayons, markers, glue sticks, etc. When I was...

What about an unaccompanied minor? Makes me wonder.....our kids have flown alone on short, non-connecting flights, they were not toddlers, about 8-9 at the time. After reading all the horror stories about people being kicked off flights for nonsense I would not allow my kids to fly alone...

Huh? I'm not the one who was booted of a plane with a babbling toddler. Just interested in other people's opinions of travel by air nowdays.

You might think that, but you would never be sure if its happening. Like I said, much of a grade is subjective, especially in elementary school. A teacher isn't going to send home a project with points deducted for not having the "right" crayons, etc, all you see is the grade. My ds never...

So a student can "buy" extra credit?

That might be what you hope, but it might not work out that way, Probably most teachers wouldn't be so blantant as to deduct points from a project because its not in the right binder (like they did in my school days, btw, I was an honor student), but, like I said, much of a grade is subjective...

At our school you can pre order the supplies before the end of the school year for the next year. Its about $35, probably could get the supplies for less, but factor in time and gas and you're ahead. It comes all in a nice, shrink-wrapped kit, delivered right to the classroom, makes teacher...

I think marble notebooks are those black and white notebooks with a sort of marble type pattern, usually not spiral, some sort of cloth binding.

They use baby wipes and Windex to clean the overhead projectors, but hos much do they need/ 20 bottles, one from each kid? I agree, we pay taxes for that. Its not more justified than expecting the parents to send in cleaner for the floor, windows, toilets, etc. We've laready paid for that...

If the binder is so important why don't you buy them then sell them to the students, for your cost, of course? That way you will get exactly what you want. Diid you even consider that you might be compelling some students/parents to run all over town at inconvenient times just to get the exact...

Be careful with this issue. I've found its best to buy exactly what's on the supply list, this isn't the time to make a stand about the issue. First of all, your child will stand out. Second, and more important, the teachers don't like students who are "out of the mold". Believe me, I've...

We haven't flown together as a family for a vacation for about a year, our last trip was right before they started the ban on gels, liquid, etc. My dh has flown several times this last year on business, every trip was problematic. Our last flight was marred by delayed flights, missed...