School supply lists for Pinellas? (transfer, to buy, schools)

[Maggi07]

I was hoping to have this all taken care of by now, but I can't find lists for any of my kids' schools anywhere. No one answers the phones at the schools (at least they didn't last Friday).

Has anyone had any luck getting the lists? And if so, where do I find them? I don't remember having this issue before.

[algia]

We got ours when the school ended this year.
I am not sure if they are different in Pinellas, but I can email you mine if you need for reference. We went and got it all yesterday to get it out of the way.

[Maggi07]

That would be great, thank you. I'll send you my email address. At least it will give me a place to start!

I'm not sure why this is so hard for Pinellas this year! They won't even give us schedules until the weekend before school starts!

[algia]

I'll send it in a minute. I need to transfer it in my computer anyway...BTW Why did my first grader need 24 glue sticks? in a class of 18 that's 432 glue sticks...I have a hard time believing they'll be using all of them in one year!


Thoughts?

Originally Posted by Maggi07

That would be great, thank you. I'll send you my email address. At least it will give me a place to start!

I'm not sure why this is so hard for Pinellas this year! They won't even give us schedules until the weekend before school starts!

[floridagirl777]

Originally Posted by algia

I'll send it in a minute. I need to transfer it in my computer anyway...BTW Why did my first grader need 24 glue sticks? in a class of 18 that's 432 glue sticks...I have a hard time believing they'll be using all of them in one year!


Thoughts?

That must have been a typo. As a teacher, I can't imagine anyone needing that much glue! Maybe they meant 2 four packs of glue sticks. That's a little more reasonable.

[kbrkr]

Good Grief, Is it back to school already??? ;-(

Where did summer go?

[algia]

I would hope so. I kept the receipt, and when everyone gets back and I can find out for sure I'll return the excess!

(or keep it for the next 5 years....hahahahahahahaha)

Originally Posted by floridagirl777

That must have been a typo. As a teacher, I can't imagine anyone needing that much glue! Maybe they meant 2 four packs of glue sticks. That's a little more reasonable.

[FloridaKash]

School supply lists are getting ridiculous. The part that really irks me is how some classes take all the supplies the kids bring in, shuffle them up and pass them out to be 'fair'. You know so the kids whose parents bought the good stuff now gets some crappy stuff while the kid with the crappy stuff gets some good stuff. Or how about supply lists stating that the binders cannot have any kind of graphics on them?

Remember the good old days? You got to pick cool looking binders and folders and you and your friends would talk about them and have a good old time? Sad....

Maggi... try the school website. Or the Walmart close to your school will likely have the list available by the supplies.

[algia]

This is something I was going to address BEFORE giving them the supplies. I am going to make it clear that we're not going to support those dead beat parents who dump their kids on my wallet. I know it sounds selfish and all, but we're not made out of money.


I will simply say: "Let's have a list of the parents who refuse to buy school supplies, let's see why is that, and then if they deserve to be helped, we'll all pitch in". Otherwise NO Thank you.

Not sure about the binders, and other things like that...my daughter has a beautiful Disney pencil box, but I am reluctant to send it to school with her because:
1. The fear of having it ripped by other kids
2. Creating useless jealousies between kids
3. Its a distraction, and they already have enough of those these days.

Originally Posted by FloridaKash

School supply lists are getting ridiculous. The part that really irks me is how some classes take all the supplies the kids bring in, shuffle them up and pass them out to be 'fair'. You know so the kids whose parents bought the good stuff now gets some crappy stuff while the kid with the crappy stuff gets some good stuff. Or how about supply lists stating that the binders cannot have any kind of graphics on them?

Remember the good old days? You got to pick cool looking binders and folders and you and your friends would talk about them and have a good old time? Sad....

Maggi... try the school website. Or the Walmart close to your school will likely have the list available by the supplies.

[Maggi07]

Originally Posted by FloridaKash

School supply lists are getting ridiculous. The part that really irks me is how some classes take all the supplies the kids bring in, shuffle them up and pass them out to be 'fair'. You know so the kids whose parents bought the good stuff now gets some crappy stuff while the kid with the crappy stuff gets some good stuff. Or how about supply lists stating that the binders cannot have any kind of graphics on them?

Remember the good old days? You got to pick cool looking binders and folders and you and your friends would talk about them and have a good old time? Sad....

Maggi... try the school website. Or the Walmart close to your school will likely have the list available by the supplies.

Yes! It used to be so much easier. And cheaper!

One of the schools put their list up on their website today (that covers two of my kids), one gave me a list over the phone (apparently they aren't around on Fridays), and the other two also answered the phone and said lists would be given out the first day of school! (Ugh)

I managed to cover most of the lists that I was given today thanks to Algia's lists yesterday (thank you, again!) and I'm hoping the ones that come out the first day of school will be mostly taken care of as well.

This whole thing is FAR more complicated than it needs to be!