It’s back to school time. Is it me, or do classes seem to start earlier every year? I sort of miss shopping for supplies: new backpacks, pencils, notebooks, the various colored Sharpies, and gel pens my daughter always insisted she needed. We both knew they weren’t on the list, but they were pretty and fun to pick out. A lot of parents I knew looked forward to the new school year. But for me, it was bitter-sweet. Maybe because I only had one well behaved child. But I missed her while she was gone and couldn’t wait for her to get home to tell me about her day.
If you’ve got a back-to-school story, your own, or that of the children in your lives, drop it in the comments. Likewise, any anxieties you might have as the first day approaches. It’s a different world out there.
I just saw a friend on Insta sending her kid off to Kindergarten. 8/8 seems super early!
They start here on Wednesday. When I was a kid we never went back before Labor Day. Now get off my lawn!
We start here on Wednesday — I say we, but my kid is 19 and in college. The schools start on Wednesday. We had a tax holiday over the last few days, which generates a Christmas-level scrum of store crowding and buying. I never fell for that trap — I’ll pay a few cents more to not stand in long lines, thank you very much. We’d just buy the supplies in June or July and sit on them until school started.
I don’t miss the supply lists at all. I get it, I need to buy 8 cartons of crayons so the kids whose parents can’t afford them can have crayons. But it still irked me that schools even have to do this. They should be properly funded. But can’t have that, can we? That’s socialism or some shit.
I know I’m ancient but when I was in school all we did was clothes shopping. The schools provided everything else. They had big supply closets and when you ran out of anything the teacher sent you to get more. If they could fund schools then they could fund them now. The GOP hates the public school system.
Pretty much the same for me. We did buy binders and pencils/pens and notebooks, but that was basically it. Back to school shopping was for clothes.
https://youtu.be/JgJRM_8GWHg
Don’t forget your books, you know you’ve got to learn the golden rule,
Teacher tells you stop your play and get on with your work
And be like Johnnie-too-good, well don’t you know he never shirks
He’s coming along
Great tune
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i dont miss the school shopping…i mean it was fun enough at first when it was basically art suplies…but then suddenly school required i-pads…but for some reason also a ridiculously pricey fancy calculator (seems like the kinda thing the i pad would work for but what do i know) year after that a fairly beefy laptop was required for graphic design…which she flunked out of as she’s now decided to follow a course in laboratory…
least this year ive only had to pay for a lab coat….so far
not starting till next month for my daughter
Yeah, it wasn’t fun when my daughter was in High School. Those damn calculators are expensive. And we had to pay for her books because she was in the International Baccalaureate program. Sort of like a mini private school within the public school system. Books ran around $400 a semester!
Schools here don’t go back until right before Labor Day. My wife made my daughters take a picture every first day of school with a sign of what year in school they are. I always thought it was kind of silly but now that they are in college is pretty cute. She actually made them send her a selfie on their first day of college. Now it is a bigger pain in the ass since we have to go help one move into her dorm 5 hours away and the other an hour away move into her new apartment. The apartment is on a hill with tons of stairs and she has a sleeper sofa that weighs a ton! Not looking forward to that!
Awww, I love that you’re still doing it while they’re in college. I do not miss moving in and out of dorms.
I hated the tax holiday when I worked at Target. It was one of those shopping centers that had a TDD – transportation development district – tax of like 1%. Plus a small municipal sales tax to support water management and parks. People were such assholes about it when checking out and I was so sick of having to be like “ma’am, the sales tax holiday is for state taxes, these are not state taxes. We cannot waive these.”
As if retail isn’t soul sucking enough.