What is the deal with back to school kits?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My MIL is a K teacher in PG county and she told me (though she sometimes has a propensity for exaggeration) that she got $60 to outfit her class with supplies for the entire year.

I get zero dollars to do this.

[Anonymous]

Love the kits! Hated going to Target to find all the supplies which were normally out of stock.

As to the hand sanitizer controversy on this threat - Just do away with it....we are way to germophobic in this country.

Ever wonder why Americans are the only ones with peanut allergies? It's that or we are genetically inferior to the rest of the not so hyper clean world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Ever wonder why Americans are the only ones with peanut allergies? It's that or we are genetically inferior to the rest of the not so hyper clean world.

Peanut allergies in Australia: http://kidshealth.schn.health.nsw.gov.au/fact-sheets/peanut-allergy
Peanut allergies in Britain: http://www.allergyuk.org/peanut-and-tree-nut-allergy/peanut-and-tree-nut-allergy
Peanut allergies in Germany: http://www.zdf.de/volle-kanne/allergisch-auf-erdnuesse-29617980.html
Peanut allergies in Hong Kong: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23393907
Peanut allergies in Canada: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/pubs/securit/2012-allergen_peanut-arachide/index-eng.php