I’m not here to complain about the uniforms or other items necessary items my child needs for school. However, the school supplies item list is just out of hand.
My sons’ lists are simple, to the point, practical and useful.
However, year after year I purchase literally hundreds of dollars worth of items for my daughters, yet year after year they come home with many of the items unused. And just when you think you can use the items for next year, next year comes along with a new list of items – many of which are just impractical.
It’s time we stop wasting Yiddish Gelt by requiring us to buy things we don’t need, by having teachers evaluate the lists year-end, and adjust them accordingly for the following year.
Thanks,
R.L.
Lakewood.
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This year I was surprised to see on the list specific color folders. If I couldn’t find them in the store I was shopping in I had to go searching for them in another store. If the school really wants very specific items, maybe they can just ask for a supplies fee and they can provide the supplies.
Agreed and while we are on the topic teachers should be tought to make do with students supplier not require the most exclusive sefer etc because they like it
For the past several years, Bnos Brocha has been delivering a personalized box of school supplies to each student the week before school. It is free of charge and put together beautifully. It removes a tremendous burden of both money and time and I still have the leeway of allowing my daughters to pick out a binder and a few folders that they want without breaking the bank. I wish more schools would follow suit.
I run a school supplies company called CubbyStuff that packages and labels all items required by the teacher and sells them thru the PTA or a parent rep. this takes the stress off parents. We also return 5% of the profits back to the school and strive to keep our prices as low as possible.
While we’re on the topic, does anybody know what a “journal notebook” is?
No store that I went to seems to know what I’m talking about. I know it’s probably an important component for my daughter’s education, but can someone please help me out here?
And to top it all off, IN ADDITION to all the school supplies on the list, I was asked to send in $20 per child to cover additional supplies throughout the year.
Count your blessings. These are all good problems.
I came home last week to find three big boxes by my door individually labeled with each of my girls names from Bnos Brocha School. Inside was all the supplies they need in the highest quality. Together with a personalized note to each daughter in their box. This was all done without any charge to the parents! Thank you Bnos Brocha in Lakewood!!!!!
I am pretty sure a journal notebook is the $.50 marble notebooks.. The composition ones. The school supply list is out of control. The teachers and school simply don’t care about the parents.
B’h
Bnos bracha been doing for a while and it’s awesome! But maybe clarify not free, just included with tuition. It is a time saver and avoids the yearly scavenger hunt
a journal notebook is usually the simple marble notebook although i cant vouch that thats what every teacher uses
Don’t drive urself crazy. Buy what u know they’ll need, like – pens, pencils,eraser, notebook, or loose-leaf with paper and dividers and that’s IT !! They’ll never use the protractor, glue stick, scissors etc etc.
lol! on the protractor! I still dont know what you do with it cuz my mother had to buy me one, and we never used it either. someone should start a protractor gemach…
I spent 80.00 for two little girls’ supplies! that includes using anything that was salvageable from last year like backpacks and some of those composition notebooks, which I ripped out the four or five pages they actually used last year.
but I cannot NOT buy stuff on the list cuz my daughter would go ballistic and hysterical thinking she will be expelled on the first day of school for not having a back of post it notes!!