My tale of "Mice and Pens"

As we get prepared for the upcoming 2017-2018 school year, I pulled up the 5th grade supply list for this year.
2017-2018 Supply List

Something seemed fishy right off the bat because I've been trying my best to repeal "erasable pens" for many years. I thought I finally had rustled up enough votes among my team that those hybrid pens would finally be removed from our list. Yet, there they were in the middle of the list.

A quick aside, my main problem with the erasable pen is my problem with almond milk, rice milk, cashew milk, etc..Those "phony" milk are NOT milk, they are nut water or something. Similarly, pen ink that "erases" is NOT pen ink.  Stay in your lane. Stop trying to be a pencil and stick to be the best pen that you can be.

We also began a few years back requesting or strongly suggesting a  "wireless-mouse." As our Chromebooks age, the mouse pad in the middle does NOT age gracefully. The closest thing to botox or plastic surgery for a Chromebook's mouse pad is the wireless mouse.

Other things that were requested for the upcoming school year that didn't make it onto the list:

colored paper -- having colored paper allows us to send home information that sticks out. 10 or 11 years have a habit of just shoving important paperwork into the Twilight Zone of their backpack.

Smaller three ring binder -- the 2-inch binder is just WAAAAAY too large for our young 10 and 11-year-olds.  A sensible 1-inch binder makes taking it out and lugging it back and forth every night much easier.

Scissors -- we have not asked for scissors in the last five years. Guess what happens to 30 scissors over five years? They become about eight small bland hardly working scissors that no kid wants to use. So we needed to replenish the classroom scissor cache.

Long story short, if your child is at Dublin Elementary School 5th grade for the 2017-2018 school year, click here to see the supply list that 5th grade intended to make public.  If you bought on-line, it will  be different from the changes we proposed. Please do not go out and purchase new things. We will make due with what we have.