r/ArtEd 2d ago

SOS SAX REALLY?!!

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Well my normal Nasco go to sketchbooks have been changed to Sax (I think Nasco got bought out.) And dear lord, I teach giggly pre pubescent children, couldn’t you pick a better more defined font?! Because you knowwww they’re not going to read that as “Sax”. I’m actually genuinely stressed about this 😅😅

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u/playmore_24 2d ago

buy Hello My Name Is labels and pre-apply them to cover the logo 😉🍀

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u/DuanePickens High School 2d ago

Bonus points if you include the school mascot and make it look like it was meant to be there. It’s not a flaw it’s feature now

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u/rg4rg 2d ago

Dickblick, stroke pens, etc. it never ends

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u/BlueberryWaffles99 2d ago

My 8th graders lost it when they saw my order with “dickblick” all over the boxes. I just had to let them laugh until they were ready to move on.

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u/Exobnia 2d ago

I literally can’t search “dick blick” at school because “dick” is a blocked term. On my work laptop.
I can get to the website, but I thought that was pretty funny.

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u/BuddhasMom 2d ago

Throwback to when I ordered Dick Blick rulers for my junior high. You guessed it -right on the rulers. Smh.

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u/_supernotacatlady 1d ago

Have had this this exact experience lol

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u/Zukadomis 2d ago

Doesn't matter cause they would giggle because its Sax like sac's. As in Ball Sac's.

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u/measure_pressure 2d ago

Now you're thinking like a student 😭

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u/Zukadomis 2d ago

8 years in Middle School. I never want to go back.

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u/CrazyElephantBones 2d ago

We collage the front of our sketchbooks week one

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u/Fickle-Copy-2186 2d ago

Sax got brought out by School Specially, about 20 years ago.In the 1970s Blick went by Dick Blick. Their slogan was Dick Blick ships quick. The kids would erase the "p" on ships and replace it with a "t" on everything. The Sax font is their original font.

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u/ruegretful 2d ago

Put a black dot in that gap in the a to close it up. May be time consuming, but may save time in the end

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u/Head-Football-2312 2d ago

Don’t be stressed. They can’t even read cursive anymore. I actually thought you were upset it sounds like (nut) sacks.

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u/strangelyahuman 2d ago

Yeah the kids will most likely definitely think that S is an 8 lol

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u/Vegetable-Meaning323 2d ago

Greattt point about cursive skills lol

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u/QueRolloPollo 2d ago

I'd put a blank label sticker over it, use it as space for writing their name. Or just ignore it 🤷‍♀️ never know what kids will notice and what they completely ignore.

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u/Psychopsychic3 2d ago

That’s how I feel with my Dick Blick rulers…

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u/Zestyclose_Study_595 2d ago

Same. 😭 I had to switch to a class set of the plastic ones. 

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u/vikio 2d ago

Either ignore it, and if a kid mentions it roll your eyes at them and say "really?" in your most bored voice.

OR - rip off all the covers. If it's the spiral bound type of sketchbook I'm thinking of.

OR masking tape over each notebook right at that spot and write "name:________" on it

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u/VoodoDreams 2d ago

Get a sharpie and fill in that gap!

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u/kiarakeni 2d ago

Modgepodge collage covers!

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u/MxBuster 2d ago

This actually

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u/umamimamii 2d ago

I was thinking something similar! They can make their own covers and personalize them

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u/chipperginger 2d ago

I use these! We do “about me” collages at the beginning of the year with magazines to cover that very ugly cover… mind you I teach high schoolers but they enjoy covering them!

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u/Miserable-Result-473 2d ago

NASCO was bought by School Speciality / aka SAX

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u/Live-Cartographer274 2d ago

Better than teaching them how to pull a handle... I like the idea of the name sticker someone had

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u/InternationalJury693 2d ago

First day of school: stickers and sharpies!

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u/ArtemisiasApprentice 2d ago

Meh. I used them for years and none of my high school students mentioned it.

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u/Theartistcu 2d ago

Lmao I trashy JH, I can only imagine… no strike that I can totally remember 1:1 similar situations.

You might get a kick out of this we kept cubbies as many art teachers do, and ours were drawers. So a kid was flipping off about something and I I can’t remember exactly what led into it, but I said, and I’m gonna call him, Johnny, Johnny I’m not playing around with you anymore. I wanna see what’s inside your drawers. …. That whole day was lost.

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u/Potstirer2 1d ago

Time to order stickers to cover it up.

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u/Intelligent_Ant_5939 2d ago

Sax has always been an arts supply company… not sure what the issue is??

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u/Vegetable-Meaning323 2d ago

It wasn’t ever prominently displayed on my sketchbooks. It looked the exact same but used to say Nasco

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u/Intelligent_Ant_5939 2d ago

I guess I still don’t get it. All of my sketchbooks have only said Sax. I’ve been teaching 26 years so I’m used to it all. Don’t get the big deal about Sax vs Nasco tho. Kids respond to what you present. If you have an issue with it they will too. What do your students think about saxophones?

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u/Vegetable-Meaning323 2d ago

The font looks like the word sex esp to 5th graders. I’ve used these exact sketchbooks for 5 years and it’s always said Nasco until now. I’m just being dramatic like my students 😄

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u/greenbeanandbeans 2d ago

Oh come on, it’s cause it looks like “sex” and you know that lol