<p>So many of my teachers this year are super picky about supplies. I went out and bought 40 bucks worth of school supplies, and now it's a waste because they're not "good" enough for the teachers.</p>
<p>Like, some are like "I require a 4 inch black 3-ring binder with 4 dividers, blue yellow red and orange, each labeled this and that, and 50 sheets of loose leaf paper in the back...etc." And to make it even worse, then they have a "supply check" for points. My chemistry teacher said we're going to have "random binder checks" so she knows that we're using them the way she wants us to.</p>
<p>Do you ever find that teachers make you organize in ways that just dont work for you? What do you do?</p>
<p>I personally am not fond of how teachers force us to organize our binders. The color coding is a little ridiculous. I know they do that to help students stay organized, those who wouldn’t be normally, but I agree, if you are already organized, there is no need to force the issue. I’m assuming you are already back at school? Despite the fact that I disagree with the teacher’s method, I know the reason behind it means well, it’s just irritating. Overall though, I just accept the teacher’s way and enjoy getting the easy points from binder checks:D</p>
<p>I’m pretty used to it actually. I wait until school starts to get my supplies, some teachers want 3-subject notebooks, some want binders. Doesn’t really irk me, although I do prefer 1-subjects.</p>
<p>Yeah as long as you’re doing well in the class, they shouldn’t be on you about organization.</p>
<p>I think the teachers at my school kinda realize this as kids get older. Freshman year they required all these divider tabs and had notebook checks, etc. Last year (junior year) I just stuffed papers into my binders and did just as well :)</p>
<p>I flipping hated teachers like this. Why do I have to go out and buy a dozen folders and binders and pens and highlighters in yellow (because blue highlighters just won’t do.) and green pens (because you hate the color blue, remember?) because you’re OCD?</p>
<p>And then getting a whole slew of teachers like this, that was the worst.</p>
<p>Worse were those teachers in elementary school who made the whole class bring in three boxes of Kleenex because the kids maybe, might, perhaps, possibly get a runny nose and we need sixty boxes of Kleenex to be prepared.</p>
<p>My teachers used to called my backpack a black hole and I was sent to the principals office in middle school to get my mental status checked because there was apparently something wrong with my disorganization. They wanted to put me on some medications because it was abnormal. I told them to screw off and i’m still disorganized and am happy with it.</p>
<p>Binders are an excessive waste of space, really. I don’t buy those supplies. A backpack amd some paper is enough. I don’t get pencils either, because I lose them-- so I just pick them off the floor.</p>
<p>Teachers don’t chastise me cause I’m pretty organized to begin with.</p>
<p>A teacher last year criticized a girl in my class, though, for having Wide Ruled paper because that paper is for elementary children who are learning how to write.</p>
<p>I hate it when teachers require binders. It doesn’t make me any more organized when the papers fall out because the silly holes are ripped or I forget my homework because the dumb binder was too heavy to carry around all the time. :/</p>
<p>It’s even worse after I tell the teacher that binders make my organization worse and they shrug and say I have to because it’s “da rules”.</p>
<p>for freshmen year, my school MADE every freshmen get a FOUR INCH binder for all of the classes to share. They wouldn’t allow 2 2’ binders or 4 1’ binders or anything except ONE FOUR INCH BINDER. It was ridiculous. Everyone hated them!</p>
<p>I remember this one teacher (she was actually one of my favorites) had us buy a 2 inch binder just for her class and then have 12 dividers in a specific order. She didn’t want us to buy dividers so instead we had to buy those clear plastic sheet protectors and tape sticky notes with different topics on them. It looked like a pre-school art project :/</p>
<p>Then this other teacher freshman year gave us pop quizzes on things like “what was the answer to number 4 on October 2nd?” …expecting that we would write down everything and very clearly date our notes…</p>
<p>ughh…i hate when they try to tell me how to organize
I nod my head, then buy one binder and throw all my crap in there…
i can keep track of myself thank you</p>
<p>One of my teachers two years ago made us get</p>
<p>A 2 inch binder (just for her class) with four dividers and paper in each one. In addition, we needed TWO purple pens and TWO green pens and at least 5 different colored highlighters. Of course, red, blue, and black pens were just expected. She also made other students (always person who was first alphabetically by last name) take attendance, organize quizzes, and just help her disorganized self. She was a perfectionist who could NOT even remained organized herself, but worse she couldn’t teach. Instead of teaching, she spent 20 minutes explaining how to keep the binder clean, and we had binder checks about once every two weeks.</p>