Picket Fence Post

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.

TOTAL TO DATE: 1,407