We usually do get a pretty good deal when we buy supplies in big quanities... last year Harold picked up over 30 cases of 50 notebooks and paid 10 cents for each notebook... that's why I was thinking they will still go down in price within the next couple of weeks...
each year we try to pick up around 2000 notebooks for the start of the school year and then another 2000 for the second half of the year.... along with pencils, crayons, erasers, glue, sizors, pencil sharpeners, rulers and other basic school supplies...
we work with 3 schools in the outlying areas of town where families are less fortunate... but each of these schools has two sessions a morning, and an afternoon session which are totally seperate from each other... (different supervisor, teachers, and students) we will see some teachers work at one school in the morning and then at a completely different school in the afternoon (we've gotten to know many of them pretty well over the past 8 years)
and we also help out La Montana School for Special Needs Children where the students range from preschool to 21 years old...
