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So basically, it's the same as the school supply racket. Teachers will require the supplies of whichever brand/company lobbied their respective school, such as Ticonderoga, rather than, say, Rose Art. Same with snacks: Pepperidge Farm can lobby the school to have its products added to the "healthy" list, while a parent baking cookie at home has no such luxury.
You know, teachers always talk about how their profession isn't respected highly enough. Well, news flash! If they could stop flexing their power muscle over students' snacks, and spend that time actually teaching academics---even teach to the test, if they must---maybe the respect level would go up.
You think TEACHERS have any say about what is sold in the cafeteria?
You think TEACHERS have any say about what is sold in the cafeteria?
Obviously not. I was talking about classroom snacks. If I read the earlier post correctly, the teacher threw away a child's homemade cookie at snacktime, not in the cafeteria. And speaking of classroom snacks, are they really necessary at grade levels above kindergarten, maybe 1st grade at most? Eating too much food is way unhealthier than an occasional cookie, let alone packaged snacks full of hydrolyzed soy, corn syrup, bleached flour, and Yellow #5. But school these days won't stand for common sense!
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Obviously not. I was talking about classroom snacks. If I read the earlier post correctly, the teacher threw away a child's homemade cookie at snacktime, not in the cafeteria. And speaking of classroom snacks, are they really necessary at grade levels above kindergarten, maybe 1st grade at most? Eating too much food is way unhealthier than an occasional cookie, let alone packaged snacks full of hydrolyzed soy, corn syrup, bleached flour, and Yellow #5. But school these days won't stand for common sense!
Obviously not. I was talking about classroom snacks. If I read the earlier post correctly, the teacher threw away a child's homemade cookie at snacktime, not in the cafeteria. And speaking of classroom snacks, are they really necessary at grade levels above kindergarten, maybe 1st grade at most? Eating too much food is way unhealthier than an occasional cookie, let alone packaged snacks full of hydrolyzed soy, corn syrup, bleached flour, and Yellow #5. But school these days won't stand for common sense!
Teachers can't tell parents to buy particular brands of snack. And if they are throwing away food it is in enforcement of a policies they do not write.
Teachers can't tell parents to buy particular brands of snack. And if they are throwing away food it is in enforcement of a policies they do not write.
Well, can't she just tell the kid: "Put that cookie away. It's not allowed in the classroom." As opposed to playing judge, jury, and executioner with a kid's personal possessions.
Schools! I can't even!
Last edited by MillennialUrbanist; 06-21-2018 at 08:30 AM..
Well, can't she just tell the kid: "Put that cookie away. It's not allowed in the classroom." As opposed to playing judge, jury, and executioner with a kid's personal possessions.
Schools! I can't even!
So you think teachers should break the rules when kids do?
So you think teachers should break the rules when kids do?
If the letter of the law says that all homemade cookies, or any foods not meeting certain criteria, must be thrown in the garbage, then I concede: the cookie has gotta go. Otherwise, the teacher is just on a big power trip. (For the good of the children, of course. )
I am all for schools deciding what kind of food to provide, and I would hope it qualifies as healthy by one measure or another, but parents should be allowed to send their children to school with whatever food they want.
That a teacher would take homemade cookies from a child and substitute freakin' goldfish crackers is utterly absurd. Not only for the violation of the parent's right, but to think that goldfish crackers are a healthy alternative.
If you see a child drinking a beer, you don't take it away from them and give them a cigarette.
Sorry to be late to chime in...but most districts hold school board meetings regularly. If you don't like the fascist tactics used in school cafeterias, attend and speak your mind!
They work for YOU!
In a neighboring district, a child's lunch was confiscated...she had a peanut butter sandwich, bag of chips, snack cake and a Little Hug drink. They confiscated it because it had no fruit or milk. The mother was livid that they did this, and did she make her opinion known! She raised unholy h*ll. As did others whose kids' lunches were pawed through and dissected. It wasn't even the school district where I work, but we all heard about it. It was the hot gossip topic weeks later at my hair salon (it's a small town). A co-worker of mine said if they ever pulled that "lunch inspection crap" when her son was in school, she'd pack a dummy lunch with something in it that they wouldn't soon forget.
Seriously, these lunch inspections and food confiscations are intrusive and WAY out of line. No way it would be stood for in the district where I work. Go to the school board meetings...write letters...speak up!!!!
Last edited by Mrs. Skeffington; 06-24-2018 at 02:43 PM..
If the letter of the law says that all homemade cookies, or any foods not meeting certain criteria, must be thrown in the garbage, then I concede: the cookie has gotta go. Otherwise, the teacher is just on a big power trip. (For the good of the children, of course. )
If you can't be bothered to petition the school board to change policy, you have no business telling teachers to ignore it just so you can feed your kid whatever garbage you want. Stop expecting teachers to do things you should be doing.
I don't think anyone is going to make the argument that a homemade cookie is healthy.
I don't think it makes the policy wrong, I think it makes how it is executed wrong.
Sorry....I'm that anyone...
There should be no policy at all....unless it's coming from the schools own kitchen.
Parents should be able to pack whatever they want or can for their child to eat.
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Teachers will require the supplies of whichever brand/company lobbied their respective school, such as Ticonderoga, rather than, say, Rose Art. Same with snacks: Pepperidge Farm can lobby the school to have its products added to the "healthy" list, while a parent baking cookie at home has no such luxury.
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