What Are These 'so called' Parents Doing!!
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This is quite possibly the most stilted thread I've ever read on these boards. People advocating for the OP are difficult for me to understand. A teacher is taking pictures in the classroom and posting them online without parental consent. How is that ever acceptable? This is unprofessional, thoughtless and teetering on morally questionable.
If snacking is an issue, then the OP can take some real initiative and talk to school administration and the school medical staff. Violating privacy and security practices is not useful. This behavior puts her job in jeopardy and, if her photos carry any tags, potentially puts her students identities online without consent. Are people really suggesting that this is a good idea, or something that should be supported?
oh please. she's not posting mug shots of the kids next to the offending food.. it's completely anonymous so chill. she's trying to HELP, and maybe vent some too, because it's hard to bang your face against a brick wall every day. THERE WAS NO PRIVACY VIOLATED ..0 -
My parents never let me eat crap like that.
And I don't think it's right to let them either.
This is why we have an obesity problem,because people get mad if you judge them on how unhealthy their diet is...and it is unhealthy.Since when are goldfish nutritionally sound?!
We have an obesity problem because people consume more calories than they burn. The reason for this is multifaceted and complex, encompassing access to excess and lack of access to quality. A myriad of psychological and socioecomonic factors are at play. Your analysis is painfully short sighted and naive.
The healthfulness of one's diet doesn't the person more or less morally superior.
I want to tell you how thoughtful your reply was using the song of my people:
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my childrens school does not encourage parents to provide a snack each day..but instead for a small fee at beginning of week provides the children with a healthy snack ranging from fruit to cheese crackers to homemade popcorn[without the added sugar].
this not only saves time but would seem to be a more fair situation for the children as they all eat the same and no one child is left with nothing. [low income families do not need to pay]0 -
You got me thinking and then I saw a link to an article about feeding children crap food and I copied and pasted this from there:
"Sugar has been shown to be more addictive than cocaine so if your kids are getting hooked on the stuff now all we are doing is setting them up for obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease and many other chronic, degenerate and very serious health issues.. I don’t mean to sound alarmist but this is quite simply the reality of the situation. Same with the over consumption of vegetable oils. It simply isn’t worth it and isn’t ok, especially with repeated maximum exposure."
Well it's on the internet so it must be true!0 -
this shirt is pure BULLS**T. I'm thinking of a friend, a nurse, who became 'wondermom' when she spawned. Her mother would offer advice and she would poo-poo her, because no one could do it better. THE WOMAN RAISED 3 OF YOU TO ADULTHOOD AND YOUR PRECIOUS DARLING IS 2 MONTHS OLD. MAYBE YOUR MOTHER KNOWS A THING OR THREE. I'm thinking about a lawyer called into a parent/teacher conference 6 weeks into her precious darling's 9th grade year. "I know she talks a lot but I never thought of it as that much of a problem." WELL LADY YOUR CHILD DISRUPTS THE ENTIRE CLASS AND IT IS A HUGE PROBLEM. HOW CAN WE FIX IT? there are many stories out there...Maybe you should get back to teaching vs judging...
go back to your bridge.
I LOL'ed.0 -
Is this even real, or is the Op just trolling.
I've read through (mostly) all 12 pages of this thread, and only one reply from OP has surfaced (unless I've overlooked a bit,) and that was addressing her grammar.
She clearly had no desire to engage in conversation about this post, thus qualifying the arguments that she is simply "shaming" (or trolling.)
I'll be directing my time elsewhere.0 -
I'm wondering if her complaint is the sheer QUANTITY of the food the parents think they need for that "snack". These look more like "meals" to me though some would be considered unhealthy meals.
This is furthere confused by the fact that if you follow the URL's you find that in photobucket she calls them lunch while here she calls them snack. Infer what you will from this about OP.0 -
This is quite possibly the most stilted thread I've ever read on these boards. People advocating for the OP are difficult for me to understand. A teacher is taking pictures in the classroom and posting them online without parental consent. How is that ever acceptable? This is unprofessional, thoughtless and teetering on morally questionable.
If snacking is an issue, then the OP can take some real initiative and talk to school administration and the school medical staff. Violating privacy and security practices is not useful. This behavior puts her job in jeopardy and, if her photos carry any tags, potentially puts her students identities online without consent. Are people really suggesting that this is a good idea, or something that should be supported?
oh please. she's not posting mug shots of the kids next to the offending food.. it's completely anonymous so chill. she's trying to HELP, and maybe vent some too, because it's hard to bang your face against a brick wall every day. THERE WAS NO PRIVACY VIOLATED ..
The children have a reasonable expectation that their belongings will not be rifled through, photographed, and displayed on the internet. So yeah, privacy WAS violated.0 -
At least they had something packed, some kids don't even get that!
Although I wouldn't call what I saw in the pictures "balanced" lunches aside from the last one was alright, this seems a lot like putting other people down just to make yourself feel better.
If it bothers you that much bring extra fruit and other stuff you feel is a more balanced option because judging the kids parents isn't going to solve the actual issue and has no productivity.0 -
This is quite possibly the most stilted thread I've ever read on these boards. People advocating for the OP are difficult for me to understand. A teacher is taking pictures in the classroom and posting them online without parental consent. How is that ever acceptable? This is unprofessional, thoughtless and teetering on morally questionable.
If snacking is an issue, then the OP can take some real initiative and talk to school administration and the school medical staff. Violating privacy and security practices is not useful. This behavior puts her job in jeopardy and, if her photos carry any tags, potentially puts her students identities online without consent. Are people really suggesting that this is a good idea, or something that should be supported?
oh please. she's not posting mug shots of the kids next to the offending food.. it's completely anonymous so chill. she's trying to HELP, and maybe vent some too, because it's hard to bang your face against a brick wall every day. THERE WAS NO PRIVACY VIOLATED ..
The children have a reasonable expectation that their belongings will not be rifled through, photographed, and displayed on the internet. So yeah, privacy WAS violated.
You seem to be working really hard to impress me. Or else it just comes naturally to you. In either case. Color me impressed.0 -
This is quite possibly the most stilted thread I've ever read on these boards. People advocating for the OP are difficult for me to understand. A teacher is taking pictures in the classroom and posting them online without parental consent. How is that ever acceptable? This is unprofessional, thoughtless and teetering on morally questionable.
If snacking is an issue, then the OP can take some real initiative and talk to school administration and the school medical staff. Violating privacy and security practices is not useful. This behavior puts her job in jeopardy and, if her photos carry any tags, potentially puts her students identities online without consent. Are people really suggesting that this is a good idea, or something that should be supported?
oh please. she's not posting mug shots of the kids next to the offending food.. it's completely anonymous so chill. she's trying to HELP, and maybe vent some too, because it's hard to bang your face against a brick wall every day. THERE WAS NO PRIVACY VIOLATED ..
The children have a reasonable expectation that their belongings will not be rifled through, photographed, and displayed on the internet. So yeah, privacy WAS violated.
^^^This^^^ and the OP has no right to reveal anything about her students to the general public. But for anyone who wants to argue about privacy, just go ask the OP if her supervising vice principal authorized this. Also it is not anonymous...go reread the part of the thread where some simple detective work revealed identifiable information. So again privacy was violated. school policy was violated and people supporting this nonsense are supporting nonsense.0 -
Well, however you want to classify it, taking away the children's snacks, putting them out on a table, photographing them and then posting it on the internet (with bad grammar no less) does make the OP a weirdo. And makes me wonder about her boundaries and issues.0
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Do your grade one students know the difference between 'their', 'there' and 'they're'? Maybe they can help you out.
Sorry, couldn't resist. :blushing:
Thank you for saying this.....I was thinking the same thing. :noway:0 -
It's hard to tell from pictures alone:
1) Which photos are 'snack' and which ones are 'lunch'
2) How many 'snacks' and how many 'lunches' the photographs include
3) The portion sizes (although you can estimate when comparing to the 200ml drink and oranges)
But here's how a typical lunch box would go for me growing up:
- 1 juice box
- 1 bottle of water
- 1 piece of fruit
- 1 sandwich with ham, cheese, tomato, lettuce, and mayo
- 1 individual-serve packet of Tiny Teddies
Obviously it wouldn't go like that every day. Sometimes my 'junk food' would be a couple mint slice or scotch finger biscuits, a slice of homemade cake or apple crumble, a individual serve of Goldfish or Shapes...you get the gist. I wouldn't have a ham sandwich every day, but whatever my lunch turned out to be that day was generally good. A thermos of homemade pumpkin soup, leftover spaghetti bolognaise, etc.
And ya know what? I was a pretty slim kid. It was only when I started buying things to eat as well as what was being served to me (with my own money) that I started to get chubby.
I mean, I understand how a teacher would cringe if a kid was being fed half a cake for snack and a family bag of chips for lunch with a litre of soda. I would too. But if they're having their oreos as a part of an otherwise balanced day...well, what's the problem?0 -
This is quite possibly the most stilted thread I've ever read on these boards. People advocating for the OP are difficult for me to understand. A teacher is taking pictures in the classroom and posting them online without parental consent. How is that ever acceptable? This is unprofessional, thoughtless and teetering on morally questionable.
If snacking is an issue, then the OP can take some real initiative and talk to school administration and the school medical staff. Violating privacy and security practices is not useful. This behavior puts her job in jeopardy and, if her photos carry any tags, potentially puts her students identities online without consent. Are people really suggesting that this is a good idea, or something that should be supported?
oh please. she's not posting mug shots of the kids next to the offending food.. it's completely anonymous so chill. she's trying to HELP, and maybe vent some too, because it's hard to bang your face against a brick wall every day. THERE WAS NO PRIVACY VIOLATED ..
The children have a reasonable expectation that their belongings will not be rifled through, photographed, and displayed on the internet. So yeah, privacy WAS violated.
You seem to be working really hard to impress me. Or else it just comes naturally to you. In either case. Color me impressed.
Yaaay! It's working 0 -
It's honestly none of your business what food parents send their children to school with.
You don't buy them nor do you know what the parents & children may be going through.
Unless their kid(s) have certain food or ingredient allergies, i personally don't see the problem *shrug*0 -
When I was a kid, I ate what was put in front of me. If I didn't want it, then I went hungry. You know what? I lived.
I know right? You didn't die! And yet the whole world still refuses to live their lives exactly like you and your parents or to be exactly like you. The nerve of them!!0 -
Honestly, I am sick of all the finger pointing at parents. I would be horrified if one of my kids teachers posted something like this. Until you walk in the parents shoes it pays not to judge. I have 2 children 10 and 7 who do take the odd packet of oreos to school and have a treat in their lunch boxes daily. They are both very physically active and very healthy!!!!! Let kids be kids for godness sake.0
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My kid has always been allowed to eat whatever he wants. I have never ever told him any food was junk or healthy or unhealthy because food has no inherent moral value. I am the one who cooks so I've always cooked a very wide variety of foods, but if he asks me to buy or make something to eat, I usually do.
People need to learn how their own bodies feel sated and/or hungry without having their parents unload their food issues onto them. Ultimately it's not my job to body-police or food-shame my child. We discuss nutrition subjects and the importance of physical activity and I try to always frame my discussions about my weight management journey in terms of being strong, healthy and avoiding certain lifestyle illnesses - not demonizing any food or body-shaming myself or anyone else in the process.
Today he's a healthy weight, slender, active, confident 15yo who runs and lifts weights with me and is currently pondering taking up martial arts. Some days he lives off pizza and candy. Today he is excited about the sweet potato fries on tonight's dinner menu served with a side of Brussels sprouts and some cubed steak. He'll likely ask for seconds because he loves those. He also had a bucket full of Halloween candy that he inhaled in 3 days. Oh, and he has no cavities.
People need to calm down. A kid can and should be given Oreos as part of a varied diet if there's no medical reason to not do so. It's not gonna kill anyone.0 -
I'm more shocked to see Dunkaroos in the lunch - I thought they stopped making those YEARS ago!0
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It really makes you think, though. What kind of an evil monster would allow their child to eat things like gold fish crackers for a snack. Never mind, granola bars, tiny oranges, croissants, juice, peaches. And if that wasn't bad enough, some parents actually allow their children to eat cookies. OP, thank you for shining a light into the dark shadows of child abuse. I hope you called DCFS.0
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HA HA HA HA! ^^^THIS^^^
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Ah, yes.
The highly judgmental "teacher" who lives in a glass house and is complaining about nutrition.
How much you you weigh?
Have you hit your goals?0 -
It really makes you think, though. What kind of an evil monster would allow their child to eat things like gold fish crackers for a snack. Never mind, granola bars, tiny oranges, croissants, juice, peaches. And if that wasn't bad enough, some parents actually allow their children to eat cookies. OP, thank you for shining a light into the dark shadows of child abuse. I hope you called DCFS.
Seriously. When I was 4, my preschool served me Oreo cookies and milk at snacktime. I'm surprised the state didn't shut the place down and haul the operators off for child endangerment.0 -
My parents never let me eat crap like that.
And I don't think it's right to let them either.
This is why we have an obesity problem,because people get mad if you judge them on how unhealthy their diet is...and it is unhealthy.Since when are goldfish nutritionally sound?!
We have an obesity problem because people consume more calories than they burn. The reason for this is multifaceted and complex, encompassing access to excess and lack of access to quality. A myriad of psychological and socioecomonic factors are at play. Your analysis is painfully short sighted and naive.
The healthfulness of one's diet doesn't the person more or less morally superior.
I want to tell you how thoughtful your reply was using the song of my people:
Your people are high quality.0 -
Check out the morning snacks and lunches that are sent with some of my grade one students. This is not just one either...this happens everyday.
There should be a test before one can have children...Sorry if you are one of those parents reading this!
Joke's on you. It takes more than one to have children (at least gamete wise).0 -
To be honest, I would have loved to have a lunch like this as a kid. Then again, I didn't have much growing up. I don't see what the big deal is, as long as there's some fruit or other healthy foods to accompany the junk food.0
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Dear Sir or Madam,
No one has ever managed to use the phrase 'so called' as it is in the title of this post without sounding like a pretentious git.
The suggestion that these people are not even parents at all crosses the line from potentially offensive to simply absurd. In future please restrict your use of the phrase to situations in which the object under discussions is literally not what others claim it is.
e.g. "The so called alien space craft was in fact a weather balloon." Gets a thumbs up.
"The so called parents who bore and raise this child." makes no sense, because that's the definition of parent.
If you want to make allegations as serious as claiming that someone is a bad parent have the decency not to be snide about it.0 -
Dear OP,
I mean this nicely.
Please seek help.
Your perception of reality is skewed.0 -
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