Parents at hundreds of schools in South Carolina won't be able to benefit from the sales tax holiday. Students go back to class before the special weekend.

Cherie Roberson of Williamston is one of those parents. "I like to have everything they need before school starts so we're on a relaxed time frame," says Cherie.

She has two boys. And the list of school supplies is long and expensive.

"They have to have graph paper," says Cherie. "They have to have pens, paper, pencils, crayons, glue sticks, rulers, scissors, back packs, pencil boxes."

The tax free weekend is August sixth through the eighth.

It started in August of 2000 as a way to give you a tax break for one weekend. But many have used it to get school supplies at a discount, tax free.

"They need to come up with a medium date, to where everybody can take advantage of it," says Cherie.

Speaker of the House David Wilkins agrees, everyone should benefit from the special weekend.

"It's worth revisiting," says Wilkins. "Worth looking at. The question is, what is the magic weekend? How do you come up with just that perfect date."

Until that perfect date is found, many teachers say you can still wait and shop over the holiday weekend. If your child has paper and a pencil for the first couple of days, teachers say he should be o.k.