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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]4 glue sticks is great. My kids need 8 and 12.  Plus 3 boxes of Ticonderoga pencils each. They are expensive. Every year their supply list is outrageous, everything is brand specified, and we don’t get anything back except a couple highlighters. [/quote]

By mistake I bought unsharpened Ticonderoga pencils one year. Probably around 3 boxes. [b]The teacher sent them home for us to sharpen all of them[/b]. I remember as a kid going to the back of the room to use the wall sharpener and sharpening as slow as I possibly could. I guess kids don't get the small freedom anymore.[/quote]

I would have found that quite rude and ungrateful, and would have kept the pencils for my household.

I honestly can't understand the supply lists for so many pencils, gluesticks, notebooks, papers or binders, when almost everything is done digitally now anyway.  I WISH these things were actually needed![/quote]

Ugh. “Ungrateful” for what exactly? You didn’t do the teacher any favors. The supplies are for your kid and the other kids.[/quote]

"Ungrateful" for the pencils.  Just because they needed to be sharpened? Send them BACK to the parent?  You will never convince me that the classroom does not have access to a pencil sharpener or that it is an undue burden to get those pencils sharpened at the school - whether the teacher spends 5 minutes with an electric sharpener, or a student does it, or somebody just sharpens a few of them each day.  Schools should be providing pencils anyway.  I think it was rude of the teacher - like giving a gift of a sweater back to the giver to get you a color that goes better with your favorite skirt instead of just wearing it with jeans.  It's not like the teacher or the class won't be sharpening any other pencils throughout the year.  Or is the teacher going to send them all home all year to get sharpened?[/quote]

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