Ok, I just checked the school suppy list....I don't even know what some of this IS!
5 Plastic folders with brads (red, yellow, blue, green, purple) [/I]
Thanks,
Dawn
The folders are like the paper ones you get (usually for 10cents or so this time of year) but plastic. They last longer. I've had the best luck finding them at Office Depot.
I haven't looked too closely at the list yet. This is the first time we have had to deal with a list.
In CA they don't give lists. Legally you can't ask a child to bring anything at all. CA law says that all education is free, even pencils and paper if the child doesn't bring it. Most kids DO bring their own, but I remember being surprised in my CA Educational Law class that they are literally not required to bring anything!
I need to print out the list here and see what we need to do.
Dawn
Ok, I just checked the school suppy list....I don't even know what some of this IS!
Help me out please.
What are these?
Marble Notebooks (4)
5 Plastic folders with brads (red, yellow, blue, green, purple)
Thanks,
Dawn
Are brads the brass colored metal that you separate and push down to get the paper to stay?
dawn
When did it become the norm to have these large school lists? I remember getting some basics but we never has anything more than needing pencils and a binder. I am probably dating myself here but I remember that the big thing was a trapper keeper binder!
My DD goes to a very small private school so I understand why they need lists but when did it become ok for Public Schools to ask people to buy so much?
I was actually shocked at how small my DDs list was compared to the local elementary schools. They were twice as long.
I would send in the 1 inch binders too, unless the teacher needed a specific uniform size for some reason. If we have to buy supplies I wish teachers would stick to the stuff that is on sale cheap every year. Like the .10 notebooks. Sure they might not be the perfect notebook but any family should be able to afford them so isn't that better?
Lisa
Holy Cow! Did you really mean over 30 classes in each grade? That would be 270 classes total!!!!! Where is that?
ok-I don't want to sound harsh..but have you thought about how your daughter might feel to always have torn outpaper? or used stuff? If it is a money issue it is one thing but to take a stand on this issue just to make a point is wrong in my opinion. I have a couple of friends who are teachers and they just love parents who refuse to buy the supply list
I can't imagine what the traffic at pick up time would be with over 5000 students
have seen where teachers have taken the supplies from students and pooled them together (just her class) then gave them out as needed in the class
ok-I don't want to sound harsh..but have you thought about how your daughter might feel to always have torn outpaper? or used stuff? If it is a money issue it is one thing but to take a stand on this issue just to make a point is wrong in my opinion. I have a couple of friends who are teachers and they just love parents who refuse to buy the supply list. Now, don't get me wrong-I do agree that some of the list seems excessive but to reuse the paper? couldn't you use those pages for at home and get her new for school?
I know for my HS classes I request in my syllabus that each student have a
1" binder, 6 dividers, paper, pencils/pens (I don't care what they use), and post-its. I teach English/Reading, and the binder is VERY important to the class. It is one that the students will only use for my class and my class only. They will turn them in several times per semester for grades.
I also allow students to bring in school supplies (tissues, paper, markers, glue, crayons, scissors, etc.--anything that would be used by the class) for extra credit. That way, when people run out or need them at the beginning, we have them for all to use.
I agree with you. My dd's go to a Christain school, so I can understand the need for supplies. Now my day care kids let me see the list they needed for next year at the public school. They needed windex, baby wipes and tissues. That is just a bunch of crap. I am paying taxes and i would hope that Windex would be coverd. (I am paying taxes and my kids do not even go to public school) .
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.Ok, I just checked the school suppy list....I don't even know what some of this IS!
Help me out please.
What are these?
Marble Notebooks (4)
5 Plastic folders with brads (red, yellow, blue, green, purple)
Thanks,
Dawn
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.
Even if a teacher doesn't do anything so blantant as deduct an automatic 10 points for having the "wrong" notebook, a lot of the grading, especially in elementary school, is subjective. If they ask for 1.5 inch binders and your kid brings in an assignment in a 1 inch binder its bound to affect the grade
I also allow students to bring in school supplies (tissues, paper, markers, glue, crayons, scissors, etc.--anything that would be used by the class) for extra credit. That way, when people run out or need them at the beginning, we have them for all to use.
Wow, I find this hard to believe to be a "most teachers" reaction. DD13 is going into 8th grade and has never had a point deducted from a grade or been treated differently based on bringing in the wrong size binder. I would hope that the teachers are more focused on educating the students and binder size would not be part of that equation.
Do you mean that you award academic extra credit or some other kind of extra credit?
Lisa
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 seen it. When I was in school I saw children being belittled for bringing in the 'wrong' stuff, such as 2 boxes of 8 crayons, instead of the specifiied 16 count box. also, they were quite specific about the type of notebook, any child who brought in the "wrong" notebook automatically lost 10 points on whatever project went in that notebook. How did the teachers get away with such pettiness? Kids typically don't tell their parents about such issues, they feel its somehow their fault or will only blow up even worse.
Even if a teacher doesn't do anything so blantant as deduct an automatic 10 points for having the "wrong" notebook, a lot of the grading, especially in elementary school, is subjective. If they ask for 1.5 inch binders and your kid brings in an assignment in a 1 inch binder its bound to affect the grade.
Teachers can be petty , and they're always griping about how little they're paid, but they seem to have no consideration for the parents budget, like we have a money tree. It constantly bugs me, what they want us to send in, but I always comply, for the kid's sake, even though I probably make less than many teachers! (please, I'm not interested in the flames this one will bring, I don't intend to come back here anyways), its best to play their game, your child is caught in the middle.
I hope I never hear of this happening in a class my kids attend because I will take it up with everyone that will listen. Teachers need to get over it. There are TONS of single parents trying to make sure there is food on the table and the teacher is going to give a kid a hard time for bringing the wrong size notebook or crayons? GIVE ME A BREAK!
I will be the parent the teachers hate and I am fine with that.