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What's No. 1 on Minooka Junior High Student's Back-to-School Shopping List?
Old-school items remain staples even in an age of rapidly developing technology and mobile communication devices.
Quick: Can you name the item Minooka Junior High School seventh- and eighth-grade students will need to stock up most on as they do their back-to-school shopping with parents?
Answer: Pencils.
Yep, even in a day and age of tablets and mobile communication devices, Minooka seventh- and eighth-graders are required to bring 12 pencils (No. 2 with erasers) when they report for the first day of school on Aug. 20.
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What’s No. 2 on the back-to-school shopping list?
Answer: Another old-school item—pens.
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Minooka seventh- and eighth-grade students are required to bring six black, blue or red medium-point pens to use in classrooms.
And No. 3?
You guessed it if you side notebooks and writing paper.
Minooka seventh- and eighth-graders are required to have five one-subject, wide-ruled notebooks with perforation (various colors) and five marble color composition books (100 pages each).
The complete back-to-school supply list can be found on Minooka Junior High School’s website.
TALKER: What would your reaction be if 7-8 grade students were required to report with their own laptops/tablets? About time? Or too costly?
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