Halloween Candy

[Anonymous]

My school wouldn’t let my kid eat a granola bar because the ingredients said coconut. Which is not a nut. I just found a new kind of granola bar! Anything to keep the peace.

I loved the no candy rule. Wish they had that through middle school. Now my kids are old enough to roll their eyes at kids who get candy in their packed lunches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op you sound ignorant. The sugar/hyper is a myth and even if it were real there is ample sugar in something like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Or fruit snacks. Are you going to ban those too? I personally wouldn’t send candy for lunch, but I could totally understand people who do, especially after Halloween. We attended a snobby pre-k where the manual recommended certain snacks and even provided examples. If a parent knows going into it that candy is not allowed that is one thing. But you are arbitrarily creating a rule just bc you can’t do your job. And worse, you’ve imposed a new requirement on a parent who did not sign up for that when they joined your school. Why do you get to dictate what people feed their kids? Sending candy with lunch might have been a fun tradition this family was looking forward to.

NP. I was waiting for someone to pop on here and say this. Why do people act like anything that teachers do to make their job a little easier is this terrible thing? It isn't that she "can't do her job" it's that she wants to make her job a little easier.

I'm not a teacher but I have close friends who are and it's amazing how teachers are taught to look out for their students and to look out for their families but why aren't teachers ever told to lookout for themselves?

Ignorant comments like these are why so many teachers especially ECE teachers leave the profession.

Teachers have to deal with so much shit (literally at times) and trust me they aren't paid near at all what they should be and half the time they are working outside their paid hours.

Before any comes at me yes I'm a parent of a child who is currently in a preschool setting and if his parents emailed me a rule that wasn't harmful to my child or other children and put word for word in the email it was to make her job easier I would actually commend that. I would be like good for you looking out for yourself and move on. Every other career people do things to make their jobs easier.

Trust me your child will be ok and survive without candy I promise you no child ever died from lack of candy. You can have your "tradition" of feeding your kids junk before/after school or on the weekends.

Schools have to provide some rules to set some sort of boundaries. If you are this bent out of shape over a no candy rule than sis you have a longgg road ahead of you when your child hits the age for elementary school because trust me there will be a lot more rules you have to follow and you won't agree with all of them. Are you going to fit those teachers tooth and nail too because poor little Larla is just the exception to the rule and can't go without?

Maybe, maybe not. Poster is just pointing out some things to think about. Must have touched a nerve with you. What do you care if that parent wants to question rules? You should question things that don’t make sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm actually the preschool teacher who sent this email I just wanted to get parent's perspective without mentioning I'm the teacher at first. I had one parent get really upset with me because her reasoning was well I'm the parent I should be able to decide what my own child can and can't eat as long as it's not due to allergy issues. I do understand her point but at the same time all of the sugar from the candy causes the kids to become very hyper and we are the ones who have to deal with the after math not the parents since we are with them immediately after lunch.

Yeah no this doesn't hold up. There's no difference in sugar content between a single fun-size Kit Kat and a pack of fruit snacks, which are very commonly packed in preschool lunches. I don't think you have a leg to stand on here if your rationale is 'sugar high', OP.

Totally agree. Completely bogus reasoning not supported by research. That being said I wouldn't make a stink ab out this if I were to receive an email about this as a parent. I'd probably just roll my eyes and move on.

This. I would call bs, but likely roll my eyes in preschool. This has not been an issue at our elementary school, but if it were raised I would probably punch back mainly bc I think it’s classist. Realistically, UMC moms are the ones hysterical about sugar; creating policies like this is overreach end just makes kids who are allowed to feel bad about themselves or their families. It’s like my first grader who came home last week telling me they are learning about food and that pizza and burgers are bad, especially McDonalds, and you should always choose a salad. I told him salads are fine sometimes, but if he needs a lot of
Energy for something maybe half a salad and a burger is a better idea. He still thinks all burgers are “bad” now, which sucks for kids who eat school lunch and eat pizza and burgers every 2weeks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Candy is bad. Too much sugar. But all the “healthy” cereal bars, jelly on sandwiches and all the other sugar hidden in health kid goods is just fine.

Did you know that when sugar or other simple carbs is mixed with fat and/or protein (e.g., eggs in cookies, sun butter, etc.), it blunts the glycemic spike?

[Anonymous]

We let kids have candy or chocolate at home sometimes, the only request is to brush teeth right after. Even occasionally they brought a candy or two back from school, but we don’t let them bring candy or sweets to school to eat. We used to go to private school that didn’t even allow apple sauce, then we got fresh fruit instead, it’s all fine with us.

[Anonymous]

It’s because the kids eat the candy first and then don’t eat their lunch and then they are wired (yes they get hyper, it’s not a myth) and then they get cranky. I also dislike when parents send a big bag of pirates booty—it takes forever for them to eat, but it’s pretty much just air so then they don’t fill up and are cranky later. For those who think parents should be in charge of lunches—Should a parent send in a can of soda? A Red Bull?

Just don’t send the candy, plenty of time at home to have candy.

—preschool teacher