My wife just totally flipped out!

[oumartin]

She has had it with the public school system it seems up here.
First they wouldn't hand out a school supply list until three days prior to school.
Then they put in bold Capital letters what was not exceptable. Like perforated(sp) spiral notebooks. Which of course they do not have.
She said it cost 50.00 bucks just for his school supplies.

I know we had a thread on this but what in the heck is going on here with the school systems? I understand they have to have supplies but why the strict demands on types of supplies and specifying brands they have to purchase and singling out those kids that don't bring exactly what was on the list.

Its not the kids fault that Wal Mart doens't have the specified items!

[olevetonahill]

shoot em all , let God sortem out .

[SoonerBorn68]

That's what happens when teachers decide they need the best.

Last year we had to buy sets of a specific dry erase marker set for each of our three kids--the most expensive of course. Each had about 24 in their class. Who the hell is going to use 24 complete sets of dry erase markers in a year?

Of course the school was willing to sell school supply "kits" for the lazy parents. It was the oversupply the rest of us bought the previous year!

[oumartin]

you should be sleeping!

[Sooner24]

SoonerBorn68, that is without a doubt the scariest avatar I have ever seen.

[oumartin]

Just thank your lucky stars its not a picture of himself in that avatar.

[SoonerBorn68]

SoonerBorn68, that is without a doubt the scariest avatar I have ever seen.

[Sooner24]

She has had it with the public school system it seems up here.
First they wouldn't hand out a school supply list until three days prior to school.
Then they put in bold Capital letters what was not exceptable. Like perforated(sp) spiral notebooks. Which of course they do not have.
She said it cost 50.00 bucks just for his school supplies.

I know we had a thread on this but what in the heck is going on here with the school systems? I understand they have to have supplies but why the strict demands on types of supplies and specifying brands they have to purchase and singling out those kids that don't bring exactly what was on the list.

Its not the kids fault that Wal Mart doens't have the specified items!

What used to frost me was getting everything on the list and then they wouldn't use half of the stuff we got.

[PhxSooner]

We have to buy specific brands and colors of things. It took me four tries to find a "heavy duty" orange folder. Each second-grader had to have four dozen pencils, which all went into the class "pile". How the heck are they going to go through that many in a year?

[oumartin]

well I think they are now responsible for purchasing the teachers items. What a crock.

[oumartin]

Well you do know only crayola crayons color properly don't cha?

[OCUDad]

shoot em all , let God sortem out .

Vet, is there any problem for which that is not the solution?

[PhxSooner]

And only Elmer's glue. And Fiskar scissors.

We have to provide a white board eraser, but you can send in a white sock. A few teachers in the older grades make the kids buy a grading pen, which just seems cruel.

[Ike]

Be glad it's only 50 bucks.

I saw in the local paper that the school system just on the other side of the river from me put M$ Office 2007 on their list of school supplies, and sent a letter to parents that their kids would have all manner of problems doing their work if they had some other version, or no version at all.

The retail price for it is something like 500 bucks, but the students can get it through the school for "only" 100 bucks.

[PhxSooner]

True story...

My husband works with a guy who had kids in the Scottsdale system a few years ago. His wife had a friend who made the mistake of sending the wrong color folder to school for her either first or second grader. The teacher called, concerned that they sent in the wrong color, and asked if there were "problems" in the house/family. All because a green folder came in insted of a red.

[oumartin]

Before long we will have to provide the teacher with gas or a vehicle to get to school

[PhxSooner]

The middle schools in our district now require a flash drive.

[Ike]

True story...

My husband works with a guy who had kids in the Scottsdale system a few years ago. His wife had a friend who made the mistake of sending the wrong color folder to school for her either first or second grader. The teacher called, concerned that they sent in the wrong color, and asked if there were "problems" in the house/family. All because a green folder came in insted of a red.

I would have answered "why yes there is a problem. You see, his mother is red-green colorblind you insensitive yainch"

[oumartin]

It appears teachers just look for stuff to cause kids problems yet let things like bullying and poor behavior go.. I'm glad I'm no longer in school and I feel bad for my children

[yermom]

if/when i have kids, the teachers are going to hate me