School Supply Lists

After reading the rants in the "what's making you unhappy" thread and learning that school children need 84 pencils, and remembering Clod's backpack deal, I wondered what the maximum number of pencils ever requested was and what were the most bizarre things schools have ever asked parents to supply their darlings with.

My query was answered in one list I found on Reddit

Dear School Teacher, Please minimize the school supply list before I start thinking you are getting a kickback.

My 2 sons are getting ready for school and they both need supplies.

THE LIST handed out by the school includes 144 #2 pencils, 6 folders, 3-250 packs of paper, 6 glue sticks, 6 dry erase markers, 3 rolls of paper towels, 1 box of baby wipes, 3-21 watt CFL lightbulbs, and about 20 other things, EACH!

I have seen the class room and it has 4 foot florescent light fixtures--where do you plan on using the CFL bulbs? Are these for your house? Until I see a lamp IN THE CLASSROOM that can accommodate a CFL, I am not sending any $5 lightbulbs to school with my kids.

I understand that some parents will be sending their kids to school with no supplies but enough is enough! And, since I did buy 288 pencils and 1500 sheets of paper, you folks had better be planning on homework and lots of it! By Spring, my kids had better have compiled the Great American Novel of homework and actually used those supplies--if I find out that THE LIST is feeding some strange office-supply-fetish instead, I am not going to be happy!

144 pencils and light bulbs?!!1!1?

can you top that? :lol:

There is hope when they get older it goes more like:
Gas card.
Car.
Laptop Computer.
Laundry Basket.
:)

Jebus. When I was a kid:

Little cardboard decorated box
Wooden ruler
Couple pencils
Eraser
Tiny pencil sharpener
maybe a marker or two
16 Crayolas in varying colors (can still hear Sister What'sHerFace: kids? Get out your crayolas!)

There was no list: we just took what we wanted. Maybe there was more going on behind the scenes than I knew of.

Slightly non responsive, but BD#2 asked me to help with school supplies this year (as I normally do). The neat thing is grandson #1's school had it all set up over the internet--you just buy all the supplies in one package and they deliver it to the school on the first day. Very efficient!

I may have already mentioned this; if so, plz forgive

Cloud;593882 wrote:

The neat thing is grandson #1's school had it all set up over the internet--you just buy all the supplies in one package and they deliver it to the school on the first day. Very efficient!

Our school has that too. We did it last year, and they didn't fill our order correctly and there was nobody to complaint to about it. We ended up shopping for some stuff ourselves anyway. Plus the cost is around 20% higher than if you buy the stuff yourself.

I thought it was kind of a good deal. Apparently they worked out a deal to get the supplies in bulk and pass on the discount. Don't know if they got his order right though (this is in Portland)

So You might as well just send your kid to school with cash?

Our school has that option, except there's no possibility for screwing up the order because the school actually does the ordering and assembling themselves. You just go to the school and say you want one of teacher X's package, and hand over your money. PTA volunteers put everything together and deliver it to the teacher.

When I went to school, and walked, uphill both ways, you could get pencils for 2 for a nickel. A note pad was same. Lunch was 20 cents.
Are kids any smarter today? Damnifino

You got lucky, bb. when we walked uphill both ways, it was snowy, so we didn't get pencils and paper, we just wrote in the snow. The usual way. And then for lunch, we ate what was still white.

You had white snow?