| rent should have to deal with dilemmas that arise | | | | run but they never stop and consider how many |
| from back to school pencils and pens. The parents | | | | containers of lead that they will be tasked to buy |
| should feel confident about the pencils and pens that | | | | throughout the school year for each child. |
| they select for their children to use at school | | | | For those parents that really look at the school |
| because after all they are only writing instruments | | | | supplies that they buy, they might have to think |
| and any of these tools should be fine for use at | | | | twice over whether to buy the pencils that have |
| school. | | | | ridges that go completely around the pencil and the |
| Parents are faced with the dilemma shortly after | | | | pencil selections that are fully rounded. If the parent |
| they receive the school supplies list. They find | | | | is in tune with shopping for school, they might know |
| themselves in a dilemma because every class for | | | | ahead of time to ask the student which pencil shape |
| each child in the house will require a different type of | | | | that they prefer to use each day. |
| writing instrument. Some of them will be pens that | | | | Then the parents must face a dilemma on pens. The |
| the parent used when they attended school many | | | | school list might ask that parents buy colored pens. |
| years before, and some of them might be writing | | | | The only problem is that the list does not specify |
| instruments that the parents have no clue about | | | | which colors are best for the classes that all children |
| what they are whatsoever. | | | | will be taking. The older children might only need basic |
| The most typical back to school pens and pencils will | | | | black because they will be drawing schematics in the |
| be pens that have black or blue ink in them and | | | | engineering classes that they take in college and the |
| pencils that are rated as #2 for the type of lead that | | | | various notes that are sure to accompany those |
| is in them. Some children might have their own | | | | classes. |
| viewpoint on the type of pencil that they can use | | | | The dilemma might get further into a major quandary |
| because there are #2 leaded mechanical pencils on | | | | when the parents realize that they can not take |
| the store shelf that the child likes better than the | | | | advantage of bulk purchases of pens because the |
| ones that they will have to sharpen somewhere in | | | | variety of pens is so varied that none are offered in |
| class one day. | | | | the quantities and types that the children will use |
| The parents start to compare the costs of buying | | | | throughout the school year. The parents finally decide |
| one package of pencils that will need sharpening | | | | to end the dilemma over pens and pencils by |
| some day, and then adding the cost of the | | | | choosing patriotic colors of red, white and blue. The |
| sharpener to the list of school supplies that must be | | | | white pens can be used as white out which is |
| multiplied so that there are enough of them for | | | | another item on the school supplies list that the |
| every child in the house. Some parent's think that the | | | | parent must buy before the back to school supplies |
| mechanical pencils will be more economical in the long | | | | list can be finished. |