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My kids just steal other kids stuff.....problem solved
Wow...just wow.
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http://woai.com/news/local/story.asp...D-67EF2C214B0F
Have Local Schools Become Supply Nazis?
Fernandez Elementary School specifies in its school supply list that parents bring 'number two pencils NOT MADE IN CHINA.' Boone Elementary says not any kind of glue will do, students must bring ELMER'S BRAND glue.
So what's the deal? Why have area school districts suddenly turned into supply Nazis?
Many parents say school districts who have become very nit picky when telling parents what they should have for their kids on the first day of school need to get a life.
"You know what, a school supply is a school supply, and I'll buy whatever I want," one woman with kids in the Northside School District told 1200 WOAI news.
Others said they're amazed that the lists of school supplies are so long. Some elementary schools have placed twenty items on their lists of supplies.
"I don't recall going out with my parents to buy this many school supplies when I was in school," said one woman in the New Braunfels ISD. "It was just pencils, paper, and rulers."
But the schools districts say there is method to their nit picking madness. Pascual Gonzales of Northside says many of the specific requirements were included in response to parents requests.
"Parents want to know specifically what they need to provide their child with as far as school supplies go," he said.
"You need to remember, when we ask for a 'spiral notebook,' that could be a fifty page book, that could be a 500 page book."
He says the lists are often meant to discourage students trying to top one another with the most brightly decorated notebooks or biggest calculators. And he says requests for specific types of glue are in there for very real reasons.
"Glue is not glue. There is all different kinds. And obviously the teachers and the schools have decided that they don't want the type of glue that runs off the paper and runs onto the desks or onto the students' clothing."
Gonzales and other school officials say they will not punish or send home students who appear in clash August 22nd with Borden's glue instead of Elmers.
"We'll work with them," he said.
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So much for impartiality in covering a news story, huh?
My kids just steal other kids stuff.....problem solved
Oh, and then there's that comparison to a group that murdered 6 million Jews.
That's a sticky subject in our house.
whne i went to school (in another state) all i needed was a backpack, notebooks or trapper keeper, folders and pencils.
, if I ran out of pencils I could get more from the teacher. the school provided everythign else.
Meanwhile my 7yr old brother just got his list and I was looking over it... he has to bring his own markers, crayons, scissors, glue (2 kinds), pencil boxes, sharpeners, 2 boxes of pencils, notebooks, notebook paper, construction paper, hole punch..... etc etc etc. OMG. I'm gonna spend so much dough on this crap that I'll end up gettign his school clothes form the Goodwill.
That's just bull . If the schools want to demand a certain brand, they can supply it for the kids. Maybe the schools would like to collect a small, reasonable fee and they can do the supply shopping. I'm sure there are quite a few parents who would be happy to give up the supply shopping trip.
I'm going to have a kindergartener this year... we may have to take out a loan to go school shopping.
Teachers don't make much money. Some of them make up for it by being control freaks.
I actually understand the Elmer's glue thing ... but what's the logic behind no chinese pencils?
I don't even disagree all that much with the problem of schools having to require certain items, but the schools can't pay for extra classes, much less supplies for every student.
Now, I really dislike NISD, I mean really, and I don't necessarily believe that there's a -wagging contest going on between who's noteobok is better.
Does the list specifically state that outrageously designed notebooks are not allowed? I doubt it.
Pascual talks out of his ass with everybody; the media, the district, employees and parents. I can't wait for the day that he has to resign based on some NISD scandal.
My major problem with this story is the lack of objectivity in the reporting. It's not helping the cause of dispelling bias or sensationalism when people see this from their TV news stations.
School is gay.
Some of them do, but it's not by setting the supply lists. That's done by the grade's teachers as a whole.
I'm not speaking for the district, but every chinese pencil I ever used was wax and would break fairly easily.
I see the point the school is conveying by not having one student have better supplies than another. But that seems a bit obnoxious I dont remember being in school telling another kid he got his glue from the dollar store.
http://www.nisd.net/schools/schoolsupplies/
I went to the school I used to work at and the list doesn't seem to be too picky IMO.
The PDF is funky, so it won't let me copy directly from it without formatting issues.
Take a look.
http://www.nisd.net/carloscoon/Schoo...s2005_2006.pdf
The fact that kids may judge each other by what kind of school supplies they have is ridiculous. So what if my kid has "RoseArt" markers and crayons and not "Crayola"?
This year my oldest daughter doesn't have to wear uniforms and the big battle of the "in" clothing has started.
You all know my cheap ass and the fact that some kids are "label freaks" is alarming because I don't give a whoot about brands. I don't need to wear Tommy, Sean Jean, Nike, Adidas, IPod, American Eagle or what ever other Mall store kids shop at these days.
I tell her to be herself and not to give in to the label freaks. But I know there will be peer pressure and maybe some teasing but I think I'm doing the right thing.
I understand the benefit of school uniforms... but school supplies? Let's have everyone dress the same, use the same stuff... very Orwellian.
JoeChalupa, you are doing the right thing.
i guess its harmless Elmer's Glue, because back long ago, i used to know kids that ate some Elmer's Glue like in the 1st Grade
Elmer's glue is actually made from a protein found in milk.
Our PTA provides 'Wrap Pacs' you can buy. We don't make any money off of it, but it's very convenient.
I always forget to order them so I end up buying supplies myself.
I hate to write in pencil anyway...always, always will.. even do math in pen, unless the teacher/prof freaked out... but those waxy pencils are the worst... worst things ever made...
I'm just the opposite. I hate writing in pen, but it's much easier to carry one in my pocket.
But yeah, give me a wooden pencil or give me a .07 gel pen.
i've been remodeling my house lately and everything you buy from lowe's and home depot is made in china... everytime i open a box, i am like, "those dirty little ing chinse suckers!" bc in almost every box there is a missing screw, 2 of the same pieces(i.e. 2 right legs, instead of a right and left leg), something needs tweaking, etc..
drives me ing nuts..
Casein.
thast why i don't drink milk.
The chinese don't care about quality when it's going to some corrupt capitallist.
I try not to buy things made in China. It's difficult.
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