Your teacher can't change the laws of reality

[Ironclad Alibi]

Some spiral notebooks have tear-out perforations to allow you to tear out pages without leaving a ragged edge from the spiral.

Ah yes. I can see where the rough tear out from the spiral would be more desireable than a smooth tear out from that type of perforations.

[It's me]

How can a spiral bound notebook be non-perforated? "Non-perforated" means "no holes," but the wire spiral has to go through holes to hold the notebook together.

Maybe means without three-hole punch holes?

[Dave1982]

Maybe means without three-hole punch holes?

If that's the case then good luck; 99% of spiral notebooks are also 3-hole punched.

[HawaiianShirts]

(Most teachers are not stupid, just like most customers do not suck. There do seem to be an awful lot of bad apples in the barrel, though.)

True.

Yes, there are problems in the American education system, and stories like Dave's are prime examples of those problems, which seem to come from students, parents, and teachers. And to think I've been toying with the idea of going back to retail for an evening/weekend job just to pick up some extra cash...

[Peppergirl]

This one needs to get back on track.

If you feel a comment would be better suited at fratching, that's where it belongs.

Can we please get back to the topic at hand and focus on the OP and his customers? This is a good thread and I don't want to close it, but won't hesitate to if it continues.

Thanks.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

How can a spiral bound notebook be non-perforated? "Non-perforated" means "no holes," but the wire spiral has to go through holes to hold the notebook together.

Sounds like one of those old fashioned marble covered notebooks. Which we do have at the Kitty in our somewhat limited stationery section.

I could be wrong though.

[Magpie]

I had to buy a non-spiral bound notebook for a course. Of course, this was a university level course. It was a practice design notebook, and for legal reasons you can't be able to make invisible modifications. (I don't think that the marble book I purchased actually met that, but I got credit).

[terakhan]

How can a spiral bound notebook be non-perforated? "Non-perforated" means "no holes," but the wire spiral has to go through holes to hold the notebook together.

Personally, I think the concept is idiotic and detracts from the appearance of the paper, but...

The perforation its referring to is usually about 1/8 inch in from the spiral binding, and is that really thin line that makes it easier to tear the paper out without having to tear it from the spiral.

Again, this just makes it look bad to me, with all the spiral bits hanging from it.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Again, this just makes it look bad to me, with all the spiral bits hanging from it.

I've had teachers in high school who would not accept assignments if they had the spiral bits. Either use regular looseleaf paper or cut off the fringe. (This was before everything was typed, so even most essays or other longer papers were hand-written.)

[sylvier]

No that seems about normal for elementary school teachers now ... there were some real doozies and dingbats but most of them were at the high school level. Now that's scary

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

I am content to believe this teacher was providing a pre-season object lesson to see if the PARENTS are paying attention to the "assignments."

Hopefully, he or she is teaching a class on critical thinking.