What is the deal with back to school kits?
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Anonymous
We've been to three elementary schools and they all lined the kids up and did sanitizer before lunch as they walked into the cafeteria. Do other schools have the time to send all the kids into the bathrooms to wash their hands before lunch? Does your child's elementary school send them all to wash their hands on the way to lunch? That would take half the lunch time slot at a crowded or big school. There are only a few sinks in the bathroom. So if you say no sanitizer, your kid will just be skipped in line and eat with dirty hands. Just FYI. |
Anonymous
| Our kits have always had name-brand items (Elmers, Crayola, Ticonderoga pencils). |
Anonymous
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Here's our Kindergarten list. I think its reasonable, especially if the supplies are supposed to last all year.
4 Boxes Crayola Crayons – Box of 24 12 Yellow #2 Pencils (sharpened) 1 Child’s Scissors (blunt tip) 1 Black Composition Book 1 Red, Plastic, Two-Pocket Folder (no prongs) 1 Blue, Plastic, Two-Pocket Folder (no prongs) 1 Yellow, Plastic, Two-Pocket Folder WITH Prongs 12 Elmer’s Glue Sticks 1 Pack of 4 Dry Erase Markers 1 Box of Tissues 1 Pack of 100 Index Cards 1 Bottle Liquid Hand Sanitizer 1 Container of Clorox Wipes |
Anonymous
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Hand sanitizer does indeed kill good bacteria. We all washed our hands the regular way in school; no reason why kids can't now.
It's the end of the year in our FCPS school, and the classroom cabinets are still stuffed with plenty of zipper bags, tissues, glue sticks, and wet wipes. And yet all of those things will be on the list for the new school year. FYI. |
Anonymous
| The sanitizer contains endocrine disruptors, so if you're fine with your kids maturing too early and having other problems then by all means go for it. |
Anonymous
| We have one sink in the boys' bathroom and one in the girls' bathroom. No sinks in my classroom. I have 28 1st graders. We use hand sanitizer or it would take nearly 30 minutes for every kid to use the bathroom and wash their hands. |
Anonymous
Amazing how previous generations managed without sanitizer. Do you have kids? Would you want rubbing alcohol and other chemicals absorbed into their bodies via their skin every day? |
Anonymous
Do you think that washing your hands the regularly way somehow keeps the good bacteria on your hands and washes away the bad ones? Both soap and sanitizer get rid of everything on your skin--sanitizer kills it and soap traps it and lets it be rinsed away. But if they are each doing their job, they are each getting rid of good and bad germs. |
Anonymous
Amazing how previous generations managed without all kinds of stuff it's convenient to have now. Indoor plumbing, air conditioning, cell phones, antibiotics... Actually, as I remember it, there was no routine hand-washing before lunch when I was in school, in the days before hand sanitizer. |
Anonymous
| We are sanitizer users, I have no problem with it. My child's classroom has a bathroom in it but no sink. Yup. So I'm good with it. |
Anonymous
PP who doesn't like the kit quality here. This is interesting. I wonder what our PTA is doing wrong. |
Anonymous
Alcohol has endocrine disruptors? |
Anonymous
No, but anti-bacterial soap does -- you know, the kind you often encounter when you wash your hands with soap and water. |
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Would be a good idea for when new schools are built or old ones are modernized that a trough of sinks are built near the cafeteria.
Hello school architects ...... |
Anonymous
PP, I agree - I used to LOVE school supply shopping and apparently, my DD does too. The past couple of years, I've gone the BTS kit route. While it was easier, I could tell DD was disappointed she didn't get to pick out her own stuff. I promised her this year we'd go shopping and do it together. So much more fun. 
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