I have to share this with a group that will totally understand...
A teacher sent out an all staff e-mail asking if anyone could spare a box of Kleenex. She shortly replied a huge thank you for the many offers and we thought that was it. No. One of the testing cordinators soon replied how awful it was that this teacher had to ask for a box of tissues. They have been going through a box a day during ACT tests for high school and other testing we do at the end of the year. So her idea was to ask each parent to bring in 5 boxes per child at the beginning of the year to help with problem/issue. Okay, my "Mommy hat" came on and I'm sitting here thinking "Holy Kleenex Batman!" Each supply list for my kiddos ask for 3 boxes at the beginning of the year and I can go to Cosco and buy two big packs and be good. NO! I would be asked to supply 25 boxes (5 kids) for school! BACK UP THE VAN KIDS WE HAVE KLEENEX! As I'm fretting over this possible situation, a Kindergarten teacher e-mails everyone to let them know of the over abundance of tissues they have and have no problem with sharing (she joked about it being in the lesson plans for the day ) .

I love how the thought of spending $60+ on Kleenex would be easier than $2.60.

Sorry, had to share............

That's sort of...funny in a strange way...just the thought, though, is very important...when we come up with these "rules" or "suggestions" we need to remember there are many parents with more than one child attending.

My son's school is very poor. They were sued over the construction of the school, and funds that were supposed to build a playground and much more, went to attorney's fees instead. I can't imagine anyone having the...gumption...to sue a school but it happens. So we have no playground even. And we don't just run out of kleenex, but toner for the copy machines, etc!~ The parents at the school are not rich either, most of them, and don't have enough themselves to donate a lot of items. It's ashame, that our schools are in this type of situation.

Don't people realize these children are the next generation...and they see what our country's focuses are on....which apparently, is not our kids?

And that is the underline problem, this person was not thinking past her own needs of a box of Kleenex! A good friend of mine is on the school board and joked about each of the board members (5) bringing a box in and hand it to her after her review! Okay, she has a twisted sense of humor too but it helped me get past it.

Our former director tried to sue the the school when she was "asked to leave". Our Board and Admin at the time very calmly reminded her that she didn't want the issues at hand to effect the students any more. Her demands would have taken the funds we needed for new texbooks and lab items. She did yeild and sued the school district as they were the ones that encouraged the school to take the actions we did.

But yeah, Kleenex. Gotta have 'em.

I'm glad they're using kleenex, given the yucky stuff that's going around! I did an internship in 1st grade this semester. I think they went through a box of tissues a day!!! Since 25 kids brought in 3 boxes each, that's only 75 days worth of tissue!

I think someone would be very rich if they could figure out how to get a monopoly as a school kleenex supplier!

Our former director tried to sue the the school when she was "asked to leave". Our Board and Admin at the time very calmly reminded her that she didn't want the issues at hand to effect the students any more. Her demands would have taken the funds we needed for new texbooks and lab items. She did yeild and sued the school district as they were the ones that encouraged the school to take the actions we did. How odd...here only the school district would be sued, and never an individual school.

Okay, just had to throw this out: Attention all parents! XYZ will be having a fundraiser to aid our school in the area of sanitary supplies for classrooms. Watch for more info on how you can help with our Bucks for Boogers fund drive!