I’m always whining about how overwhelmed I feel by the amount of paper my elementary school kids bring home from school. Now I’m trying to quantify the misery.
I’m tallying the number of pieces of papers my three children — grades 3, 5 and 5 — bring home from school throughout the 2009-2010 school year. Below is the running tally:
Weeks 1-2 (seven days of school): 146 pieces of paper.
Week 3 (each kid had a half day of school): 63 pieces of paper.
Week 4: 68 pieces of paper.
Week 5: 42 pieces of paper.
Week 6: 72 pieces of paper.
Week 7: 34 pieces of paper.
Week 8: 28 pieces of paper.
Week 9: 59 pieces of paper.
Week 10: 72 pieces of paper.
Week 11: 79 pieces of paper.
Weeks 12-13 (includes Thanksgiving week): 88 pieces of paper.
Week 14: 53 pieces of paper.
Week 15 (included a snow day): 78 pieces of paper.
Weeks 16-17 (includes a half week of school before Christmas break): 96 pieces of paper.
Week 18: 89 pieces of paper.
Weeks 19-20 (includes a full week, plus a week with only three school days): 78 pieces of paper.
Weeks 21-22: 115 pieces of paper.
Weeks 23-25 (second and fourth weeks of February, plus first week of March): 147 pieces of paper.
Weeks 26-27 (second and third weeks of March): 86 pieces of paper.
Week 28 (fourth week of March): 53 pieces of paper.
Weeks 29-30 (fifth week of March, first week of April): 83 pieces of paper.
Weeks 31-32 (second and fourth weeks of April, excluding school vacation week): 283 pieces of paper.
Weeks 33-36 (fifth week of April, first three weeks of May): 279 pieces of paper.
Weeks 37-38 (last week of May, first week of June): 174 pieces of paper.
Weeks 39-41 (second and third weeks of June, plus June 21 and half-day on June 22): 1,505 pieces of paper.
TOTAL FOR THE 2009/2010 SCHOOL YEAR: 3,870
