Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for inputs. You all are right about the wedding. I should stay home considering other priorities. I just hate the feeling that I will miss the important family even and it may just happen once. But other priorities are more important. Btw, I just listed the events in timely order. I don't favor one over the others in the order for those may think that way.

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks. I didn't know they had communal supplies in kindergarten. When I was in kindergarten a few decades ago everyone had to bring their own supplies, and there was no communal anything. Thus why I didn't figure it out (to the PP who was alarmed that I couldn't figure this out -- sheesh). This is all new to me, as there is also no communal anything in my DCs' preschool either.

I also wasn't being sensitive to anything. I was simply curious.

Also, the logic isn't necessarily sound. If they really just want 50% of the class bringing some communal supplies, it doesn't follow that dividing the list by gender is the way to go. Classes are generally not evenly divided along gender lines, and often they are heavily weighted with more of one gender than the other.

Anonymous wrote:It's a shorthand way of saying "half the classs bring glue and gallon bags, half the class bring baby wiped and quart bags." They don't need a whole class worth of each of those.

...and I'm alarmed that you could not figure this out.