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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought it was a typo when the supply list said 40 glue sticks but I was told that was correct. I am not buying 40 glue sticks[/quote]

Your kid will use that many.

Just send in a new pack every 6 to 8 weeks.

I promise that the glue sticks will get used.  Trust the experienced parents on this one.[/quote]

They will not use 40. And if they do- the teacher needs to come up with better lessons. Gluing paper on paper is stupid.[/quote]

They use them to make their own “text books” dumb busy work.  Very stupid indeed. [/quote]

Feel free to join the teaching industry and show us how you can do everything better.[/quote]

The system is broken and it has been broken for a long time. If you are defending a system that asks 3rd - 6th graders to bring in crayone, scissors and glue sticks to create their own text books and for the purpose of taking notes, then you are indeed part of the problem. Common sense has gone out the window. Why are upper elementary kids cutting and pasting at all. It's absolutely absurd. They are doing it because so many lack the fine motor skills to hold a pen or pencil much less actually use one to form actual letters that anyone can read. So they can't take notes, and there are no textbooks so they have no reference materials other than google slides.

I get needing a job and going with the flow, and wating out your pension, so not giving an actual F, but honestly you can't with a straight face tell me that upper elementary students should be going through 40 glue sticks, becasue they are spending a significant portion of their time cutting and pasting, when a better use of their time would be reading actual textbook and writing on actual paper.  I mean barring that how about teacching keyboarding to 3rd graders, they don't do that because it isn't developmentally appropriate, but they also don't teach penmenship anymore either... which is actually develpmentally approriate, so this is why we need 5 spiral notebooks in 5 separate colors, 40 glue sticks and 5 boxes of crayons for little Johnny in the 6th grade.

I remember my FCPS back to school list in upper elementary, of course this was many years ago, a spiral notebook, college ruled paper and pens/pencils and a book bag to carry by text books back and forth. Even the poorest kid's parents could afford the above. [/quote]

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