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I'm guessing y'all are in Cary/Western Wake/newer schools where they do this "throw ALL the supplies in a pot and you get what you get". There are a few things, like folders and notebooks that are yours to keep, write your name on, etc in good ol' Raleigh.
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Don't put your child's name on anything or waste time letting your child pick out a princess or Hulk notebook 'cause what you send to school will be put in a box and distributed amongst the class. It's all about being fair.
IKR....that irks me somewhat. Part of the fun was picking out the designs and colors you wanted. Learned my lesson after the first year we custom picked then labeled all my daughter's items and sent in the rest. She never came back with not one of those items. If your kid wants personalized it's better to wait further into the year once their issued one is trashed( school won't give them a new one) then sending the first week. I understand the concept but it still selfishly bites
I posted before reading the rest of the thread. So glad I'm not alone on this. I don't have any problem donating items for kids without but I should still be able to choose my child's supplies if I'm paying for them . There are a lot of PC issues at school that I personally don't agree with. I pick my battles and just trust that in the scheme of things their choices will serve a better good then what I'm sometimes capable of.
Do younger kids go through crayons and glue? Yep. Do older kids go through loose leaf paper and mechanical pencil lead a lot? Yep. Does everyone use tissues over the course of the year? Yep. Does the county provide all the supplies every teacher needs? Nope.
And I don't think any expects the school system to provide these items. I'm pretty sure the issue is with the fact the kids don't get to keep their own stock and everything has to be distributed evenly to be fair. I have no problem buying extra supplies to be distributed to the kids with irresponsible parents.
But if I buy my child the nice notebook she picked out because she likes the unicorn on the front she should be able to keep that notebook but out of "fairness" she can't.
If they actually take the supplies from the kids and they don't get to choose something special for themselves anyway, why on earth don't they just buy all the supplies in bulk, get a huge discount for an entire school system buying the supplies and charge each parent. It would save everyone time and money. I've heard the argument that people really enjoy picking out their supplies (I don't, but I understand that for some it's a memorable ritual) but if they don't get to keep them...?
I'm guessing y'all are in Cary/Western Wake/newer schools where they do this "throw ALL the supplies in a pot and you get what you get". There are a few things, like folders and notebooks that are yours to keep, write your name on, etc in good ol' Raleigh.
I'm in Cary/Western Wake/"newer" schools and my kids have always gotten to use the folders and notebooks, etc. they've picked out. Pretty sure they're blowing their noses in the socialist tissues, but I'm okay with that.
If they actually take the supplies from the kids and they don't get to choose something special for themselves anyway, why on earth don't they just buy all the supplies in bulk, get a huge discount for an entire school system buying the supplies and charge each parent. It would save everyone time and money. I've heard the argument that people really enjoy picking out their supplies (I don't, but I understand that for some it's a memorable ritual) but if they don't get to keep them...?
Because once the school system gets involved in contracting anything out, the price goes up astronomically. What you can buy at Target for $25 will cost parents $250 if the school contracts it out. You don't even want to know what wcpss pays for school laptops compared to what you would pay. Really, you don't. This isn't isolated to wcpss, either. It's the way of the world.
Now some schools use a service/vendor where they package up the supplies needed for each grade level and parents can buy the package, but this is generally offered as a PTA service. We did it in NY; have talked about it here at the PTA level but have not yet pulled the trigger. Frankly getting the manpower together to distribute the packages has been the biggest sticking point here.
I'm in Cary/Western Wake/"newer" schools and my kids have always gotten to use the folders and notebooks, etc. they've picked out. Pretty sure they're blowing their noses in the socialist tissues, but I'm okay with that.
Yeah, it's actually not that big of a deal. If you put your kid's name on it, the teacher isn't crossing it out and giving it to the kid at the next desk over. And kids in upper grades keep all that stuff in their desks from Day 1 anyway.
Wow.....you guys have stirred up some memories for me. Both of my kids have recently graduated high school so this takes me back about 12 years. I got the list of supplies and took my son to Walmart to get them. He was very excited to pick out camo pencils, whatever theme at the time was notebooks, etc......
We went to first day of Kindergarten and they got thrown into a pile of all of the others kids' supplies. I asked about it and was told they put all of the supplies together and divvy up among all of the students. I was not happy. Had I known that I would have just bought all of the cheapest stuff they had.
I told the teacher I did not understand - I am not into Socialism and that's what I thought this was. Oh well.......sounds like it hasn't gotten any better.
If they actually take the supplies from the kids and they don't get to choose something special for themselves anyway, why on earth don't they just buy all the supplies in bulk, get a huge discount for an entire school system buying the supplies and charge each parent. It would save everyone time and money. I've heard the argument that people really enjoy picking out their supplies (I don't, but I understand that for some it's a memorable ritual) but if they don't get to keep them...?
I think it is about the ritual for some. At my kid's elementary they switched to having the PTA buy all the supplies. It's a title 1 school so I imagine buying school supplies was a struggle for some families. The more well off families contribute more to the PTA and then they buy in bulk.
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I don't think glue sticks were invented for school use when I was in kindergarten back in the dark ages. But I miraculously survived. Do they use flour paste anymore?
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