Black Marble Composition Notebooks

These things should be banned from every school supply list imaginable. It's bad enough that there is not one left in either Howard or Montgomery counties, but the fact that I need six of them is slightly enfuriating. Why? Because 5 of them are for my first grader. When Kt was in first grade, she also needed 5 and at the end of the year each of them came home with a subject written on the outside: Spelling Journal, Daily Writing Journal, Math Journal, Science Journal and Social Studies Journal. Only the spelling and writing journals were even written in. The math journal had about the first 6 pages used and the science and social studies ones were not even touched. Why am I looking all over the county for 6 of these things, in black I might add??? Hmmm.....