I know this thread is old and I don't have a child in MS but willl next year. I'm just curious, do the MS really insist on binders for each subject and that each child be organized in the same fashion? This surprises me since I don't think I have issues with organization (probably average at that) but this method would probably have had me leaving things in my locker as well. We had many folders but I thought they were mostly in a big trapper keeper thing. I would probably have had to carry my whole backpack with everything to each class. Maybe I did (I'm so old I can't remember smile.....My first thought when I read the thread was that this sounds like the school's problem. They should let each kid figure out how to get it done in their own way.....not prescribe something.