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Advice needed regarding items for Ss's school

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Submitted by msg1986 on Wed, 03/25/2015 - 4:59pm

So when we went to Ss's(stb7) parent teacher conference, the teacher advised us that the classroom was in need of hand sanitizer & dry erase markers, so Dh and I agreed to purchase a few bottles of sanitizer for the class as well as a pack of markers. Ss's school is almost an hour away and school lets out at 1:30 every day. The earliest that either Dh or myself gets out is at 3:30 (dh) buuut he picks Dd up from the babysitters so realistically he'd get to the school close to 5.

Is it unreasonable for us to send these items back to Bm's when Dh drops Ss off so that Ss can just take them to school with him or should we take the time off of work to get them in to the school because we agreed to donate them? I mean they are for HIS class but at the same time I know this will bother Bm just because, well, everything bothers Bm.

Thoughts?

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Flying.Purple.Step.Monster's picture

Submitted by Flying.Purple.S... on Wed, 03/25/2015 - 5:12pm

BM may bring them in and say they were form her? Might be cheaper just to mail them than to pay the gas to drive them there?

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Submitted by msg1986 on Wed, 03/25/2015 - 5:17pm

I thought about that, but I figured we'd email the teacher and let her know we sent them for Ss to take in and then also attatch a note advising Bm that the teacher is expecting the items.

I thought about mailing them too... is that weird to do that??? Smile

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Submitted by Somuchdrama on Wed, 03/25/2015 - 5:17pm

It isn't worth the drama, just drop it off later. BM will assume you are trying to "out mom her". Everything I do nice for the skids becomes some sort of competition to insecure BM.

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Submitted by msg1986 on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:08am

That is very true, Bm here is terrified of the idea of me being any type of mother figure to Ss. It's pathetic.

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Submitted by Maxwell09 on Wed, 03/25/2015 - 5:37pm

Can you go by the school before work one morning and just leave it at the front office with a note for his teacher?

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Submitted by msg1986 on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:05am

Thank you! Smile I like the idea of a gift card too... I think we will either do that or the amazon delivery suggested above.

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Submitted by Ninji on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 6:53am

We buy things like this for the school all the time. We put the items in the kids backpack and the teacher gets them. BM has never taken the items or took the time to go into the school and say they were from her.

Also, does it really matter. SS's class needs the items. Just send the items in.

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Submitted by Jsmom on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 8:06am

I like the gift card idea...They buy the stuff all the time, this way they can just get what they want. Mail it and put a note in that this was easier than sending the stuff to school. Teacher will appreciate it.

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Submitted by msg1986 on Thu, 03/26/2015 - 10:07am

LOL! Apparently not. I looked online and the school site says that they are always "accepting" donations for hand sanitizer, tissue, paper towels. The dry erase markers weren't on there but according to Ss, the students use them.