I attended a brief Kindergarten meeting today where lo and behold, they actually explained some of the things on the school supply list. This is of course in addition to the great comment left by ckphoto explaining a bit of it as well. (Thanks.)
Most of my questions were answered immediately when the teachers explained that these supplies are considered “community” supplies, which means they’re all thrown together and used as a class when they’re needed. She mentioned that some schools actually request the money instead and then the teacher buys everything that the class needs. Either way, it makes sense to me.
I still don’t know what the class is going to do with all that glue though. 10 sticks and 2 bottles each, around 20 kids per class. That’s still a lot of stinkin clue. Even assuming that some kids won’t bring any or as much, seems like an awful lot. Ckphoto had a good point though, that it’s better to buy all of that glue now while school supplies are cheap–especially if you need 10 glue sticks.
The Crayola brand request wasn’t asked or answered. I guess everyone just assumes that Crayola is the King of school supplies and it’s better to be safe than sorry. Sorry as in gee Suzie, I don’t know why those crayons all color in shades of waxy white or why those markers were dried up when you opened them. Could it be because they only cost $1.00 a case?
So okay, things make sense. I hope the earlier post about the school supply list didn’t come across as some loser mom complaining about buying school supplies and trying to find some way to get over on the “system”. I’m brand spankin new to all of this so a lot of stuff seems really odd to me (like eating cold pizza on visitor day and calling it “breakfast” pizza) in comparison to when I was in Kindergarten, which is all I have to compare it to and that was a brazilian years ago. (Brazilian being part of a joke I may share some time.) Still, I’ll always provide what the school requests of me. I think it’s important to do that for my daughter.
Still not sending cereal for the snack and will probably make fun of anyone that does, and still considering asking the Walmart employees where the $5.00 party money is. Sorry, it’s just in my nature.