I don't currently have any kids in school but I always found it amusing that every student had to bring in three boxes of tissues on the first day of school. If they all did, then a 30-student classroom would have 90 boxes of tissues?! I have no idea where they were kept because I never saw them when I visited the classrooms.

Also, I was a bit OCD about my crayons when I was in school and they had to be put away in the same order that they came out of the box (you could always tell where they went because a little color would rub off on the box) and I didn't like it when the paper was peeled off. Nowadays, everyone brings in crayons (and pencils and other supplies) and they get put into a community bin for all the students to have access to so that it isn't obvious if one student wasn't able to afford to bring in his or her own. Maybe I'm selfish, but I still don't want to share my crayons -- and don't even think about ripping a page out of my spiral notebook and leave behind all the jagged edges in the wire ;-)