Most down-to-earth schools?

[Anonymous]

Pro-Trix crowd -- are you really that ignorant about nutritional vs. junk food? Hard to imagine in Montgomery County that people are that ill-informed.

How about if you want to serve your kid junk food, YOU do it on your own time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pro-Trix crowd -- are you really that ignorant about nutritional vs. junk food? Hard to imagine in Montgomery County that people are that ill-informed.

How about if you want to serve your kid junk food, YOU do it on your own time?

Maybe they're not ill-informed, but that's just not the particular hill they're willing to die on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pro-Trix crowd -- are you really that ignorant about nutritional vs. junk food? Hard to imagine in Montgomery County that people are that ill-informed.

How about if you want to serve your kid junk food, YOU do it on your own time?

Maybe they're not ill-informed, but that's just not the particular hill they're willing to die on.

Then why are they so hell-bent on stopping others? I'm not involved in that school or that issue, but I'm completely sick of people who oppose the efforts of others who are trying to get kids to eat healthier food. It's just ignorant. Eat as much crap as you want, but don't act like ti's some kind of social virtue to do so. Our society is the fattest in history and it's astounding that people in a well-educated area like this could try to put down parents who object to a sugar-filled useless version of a healthy food item, and in a public elementary school of all places. So stupid. Being against the Trix pearl-clutchers -- THAT is the hill they shouldn't be willing to die on. And yet they are..... So weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Churchill cluster is down to earth. At least from our view (we have 2 at Potomac ES and love it)

Yes, well you are benefiting from an amazing new principal. My DC's had Mrs. Goldberg. She was horrible. She was a tyrant to her teachers who quit in droves while my DC's were there. She was not supportive of them at all and it's the teachers that make your child's experience but the principal sets the tone. So glad she's gone. She did so much so damage. Be thankful that you have a principal that gives a fig about the students not just herself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pro-Trix crowd -- are you really that ignorant about nutritional vs. junk food? Hard to imagine in Montgomery County that people are that ill-informed.

How about if you want to serve your kid junk food, YOU do it on your own time?

Maybe they're not ill-informed, but that's just not the particular hill they're willing to die on.

Then why are they so hell-bent on stopping others? I'm not involved in that school or that issue, but I'm completely sick of people who oppose the efforts of others who are trying to get kids to eat healthier food. It's just ignorant. Eat as much crap as you want, but don't act like ti's some kind of social virtue to do so. Our society is the fattest in history and it's astounding that people in a well-educated area like this could try to put down parents who object to a sugar-filled useless version of a healthy food item, and in a public elementary school of all places. So stupid. Being against the Trix pearl-clutchers -- THAT is the hill they shouldn't be willing to die on. And yet they are..... So weird.

I was not aware there was an active movement to keep Trix yogurt in public schools. No one is actively resisting your efforts. Some people are just rolling their eyes in the corner.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pro-Trix crowd -- are you really that ignorant about nutritional vs. junk food? Hard to imagine in Montgomery County that people are that ill-informed.

How about if you want to serve your kid junk food, YOU do it on your own time?

Maybe they're not ill-informed, but that's just not the particular hill they're willing to die on.

Then why are they so hell-bent on stopping others? I'm not involved in that school or that issue, but I'm completely sick of people who oppose the efforts of others who are trying to get kids to eat healthier food. It's just ignorant. Eat as much crap as you want, but don't act like ti's some kind of social virtue to do so. Our society is the fattest in history and it's astounding that people in a well-educated area like this could try to put down parents who object to a sugar-filled useless version of a healthy food item, and in a public elementary school of all places. So stupid. Being against the Trix pearl-clutchers -- THAT is the hill they shouldn't be willing to die on. And yet they are..... So weird.

I was not aware there was an active movement to keep Trix yogurt in public schools. No one is actively resisting your efforts. Some people are just rolling their eyes in the corner.

They are not my efforts. I'm not involved in any way, and as far as I know there is no Trix at my kids' schools. I'm just sick of people reacting against the parents who are trying to get crap like that out of the cafeteria. I would expect a more educated crowd around here than that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pro-Trix crowd -- are you really that ignorant about nutritional vs. junk food? Hard to imagine in Montgomery County that people are that ill-informed.

How about if you want to serve your kid junk food, YOU do it on your own time?

Maybe they're not ill-informed, but that's just not the particular hill they're willing to die on.

Then why are they so hell-bent on stopping others? I'm not involved in that school or that issue, but I'm completely sick of people who oppose the efforts of others who are trying to get kids to eat healthier food. It's just ignorant. Eat as much crap as you want, but don't act like ti's some kind of social virtue to do so. Our society is the fattest in history and it's astounding that people in a well-educated area like this could try to put down parents who object to a sugar-filled useless version of a healthy food item, and in a public elementary school of all places. So stupid. Being against the Trix pearl-clutchers -- THAT is the hill they shouldn't be willing to die on. And yet they are..... So weird.

I was not aware there was an active movement to keep Trix yogurt in public schools. No one is actively resisting your efforts. Some people are just rolling their eyes in the corner.

They are not my efforts. I'm not involved in any way, and as far as I know there is no Trix at my kids' schools. I'm just sick of people reacting against the parents who are trying to get crap like that out of the cafeteria. I would expect a more educated crowd around here than that.

I'm a teacher at a high school in MCPS, and there's Trix yogurt at our Cafeteria. And it's a high school, where in theory the cute rabbit and bright colors aren't even all that appealing to the demographic. So if your kids are in MCPS schools, sounds like you have a battle to start fighting!

[Anonymous]

Goodness, it's just a bit of sugar. If they were giving the kids Mountain Dew, I would agree, but a bit of junk on yogurt is not the end of the world. yep, I give my kid a yogurt with a bit of crushed chocolate on top sometimes with lunch, and even *gasp* chips. But there's fruit and veggies, too. We try to eat a well balanced diet otherwise. Most of our dinner is home cooked, fresh, not out of a box. We hardly eat fast food. You are going to drive your kids to go nuts on junk food when you aren't looking. Lighten up people.

[Anonymous]

None of the yogurt posters are helping answer OP's question. Why don't you take it to a new thread?

[Anonymous]

It is a PARENTS job to feed your kids. I can't even believe the school has food. It should be pack your own daily and everyone would shut the F about the food. It is a place to learn. Not a restaurant or a daycare.

OP, I think the best areas for normalcy are:

Quince Orchard HS,
Sherwood HS
Poolesville, HS

The further away you can get from down county, the better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a PARENTS job to feed your kids. I can't even believe the school has food. It should be pack your own daily and everyone would shut the F about the food. It is a place to learn. Not a restaurant or a daycare.

OP, I think the best areas for normalcy are:

Quince Orchard HS,
Sherwood HS
Poolesville, HS

The further away you can get from down county, the better.

Careful...your privilege is showing. Do you know how many families in Mont Co are food insecure? No, of course you don't.

[Anonymous]

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OP here ... so one of the things I define as "down to earth" is a community where parents don't feel that they have to "invest" in their school community unless something is really wrong (i.e., impose their somewhat arbitrary bugaboos on the school). Parents should be having better things to do, like planning neighborhood barbecues and working in their yards, or delivering research papers, or making oral arguments in court.

Yes, nothing says "down to earth" to me like delivering research papers or making oral arguments in court!

Fair enough! But I guess what I'm saying is that somehow my town growing up had plenty of very smart, accomplished folks who did not feel like they needed to overwhelmingly stress over the schools or their kids' academics. (With exceptions, of course.) Maybe that just does not exist anymore.

We live in Bethesda (although I think the cheaper part of Bethesda), and honestly I don't think the parents stress out about that stuff. The kids eat Cheetos at the park; they play video games on playdates; they watch PG-13 movies and listen to Katy Perry crap. I've only met one parent who was the crazy "After his piano lesson, my kid has to run to their Kumon class even though they are at the top of their class." A lot of scientists and economists in our neighborhood (although there are also the lobbyists and the lawyers and the real estate brokers). I'm confused by your comment about parents "investing." The fact is that the public schools are really under-funded now. The parents at our school chip in to buy stuff like computers, desks, classroom supplies, run the science fair, and fund a couple of assemblies a year (usually by performing arts folks). I don't know if that's what you're complaining about when you talk about "investing." There are parents who do that stuff for the school -- I don't and don't really know the ones that do, but I'm grateful that they do it, because my kids appreciate the assemblies and have fun doing the science fair (which is your basic "I built a volcano with baking soda" affair, not a "I mapped the human DNA at my dad's lab!" kind of thing). There are so many top tier privates in MoCo, I think it really pulls a lot of the "over-achievers" who are over-invested in their kids education out of public. I'd guess they are all at Landon, Bullis, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a PARENTS job to feed your kids. I can't even believe the school has food. It should be pack your own daily and everyone would shut the F about the food. It is a place to learn. Not a restaurant or a daycare.

OP, I think the best areas for normalcy are:

Quince Orchard HS,
Sherwood HS
Poolesville, HS

The further away you can get from down county, the better.

What if they don't, or can't? Too bad for the kids?

I also think it's funny that you are recommending Poolesville HS for "normalcy" -- a high school where 3/4 of the enrollment is via a highly-competitive magnet application from all over the northern part of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a PARENTS job to feed your kids. I can't even believe the school has food. It should be pack your own daily and everyone would shut the F about the food. It is a place to learn. Not a restaurant or a daycare.

OP, I think the best areas for normalcy are:

Quince Orchard HS,
Sherwood HS
Poolesville, HS

The further away you can get from down county, the better.

I wish people would stop highlighting the Sherwood cluster. There are FAR too many homes being built in our area now! I want it to remain the best little secret.

Stay away, people! We like our insular lifestyle!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Goodness, it's just a bit of sugar. If they were giving the kids Mountain Dew, I would agree, but a bit of junk on yogurt is not the end of the world. yep, I give my kid a yogurt with a bit of crushed chocolate on top sometimes with lunch, and even *gasp* chips. But there's fruit and veggies, too. We try to eat a well balanced diet otherwise. Most of our dinner is home cooked, fresh, not out of a box. We hardly eat fast food. You are going to drive your kids to go nuts on junk food when you aren't looking. Lighten up people.

Good for you. This is the kind of attitude that really irks me. Who cares how you feed your kids PP? I give my kids loads of junk -- McD's, sugar salt fat pizza ice cream -- way more than I think I should. That doesn't mean the SCHOOL should do it. A school should represent healthy habits, and teach kids healthy eating. I don't need to lighten up. You do.