Is teacher overstepping bounds here?
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Anonymous
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Our kitchen is out of commission for a week due to light renovation, so we are stocking foods we don't usually keep in the house to make getting lunches packed and out the door more easy. I'm talking specifically about snack packs of things like Fritos, etc. This is highly unusual for our family, as we generally keep it healthier, but I figured one week of convenience won't kill the kids.
So, today, in a rush, I pack the lunch. I grab the pack of Fritos for the snack because I couldn't find the apples, which were my first choice. 3rd grade DD hands them back to me and says, "Ms. Teacher won't let us have this kind of snack?" I asked, "What do you mean?" DD replied, "She doesn't want us to have junky food." I laughed and said, "what's she going to do, take it away from you?" And DD replied, seriously, "Yes." WTF? Not to sound all Sarah Palin here, but who the hell does the teacher thing she is, regulating my child's nutrition? Anyway, I spent 10 minutes looking for the apples and substituted, and kid missed the bus, and so I had to drive her to school. To say I'm annoyed is putting it mildly. |
Anonymous
| Fritos is not "nutrition". Sorry about your stress. |
Anonymous
| Makes me miss my childhood. I'd consider that overstepping. |
Anonymous
How dense are you? Do you lack reading comprehension skills? Or are you being deliberately combative? |
Anonymous
| More to the point, what business is it of any teacher what a child eats? |
Anonymous
| Is it a school policy? Some Montessori schools have meal and snack limitations and rules |
Anonymous
| My kids school is the same and it annoys me to no end. I am the parent. |
Anonymous
This is public 3rd grade classroom. None of that Montessori nonsense. |
Anonymous
| very curious where? |
Anonymous
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Some schools actually care about the health of their students. They understand that nutrition, or lack of, affects the ability of children to be their best. They are even willing to take the risk of having to explain this to parents like OP.
She should write her child's teacher a thank-you note for caring. |
Anonymous
OP understands nutrition. She was in a bind due to her kitchen. Do you really think Fritos for a day will kill a kid? |
Anonymous
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When my kids have eaten snack in the classroom in MCPS, there have always been rules for the snack. And the teachers told the parents the rules at the beginning of the year. The rules have basically been:
1. No candy 2. No chips 3. No nuts OP, here is what I would have done, instead of getting upset about the teacher having some nerve to set rules like this, and having my child miss the bus: I would have sent my child off to school with a bag of Fritos, and I would have sent an e-mail to the teacher. "Dear Teacher, We are in the middle of renovating the kitchen. Unfortunately, the only thing I could find for snack this morning was a bag of Fritos. I just wanted to let you know. Sincerely, Larla's Mother" And here is something I would do from now on: put the lunch stuff together the night before. |
Anonymous
| This happened to my kid in private school but in public - no way. |
Anonymous
| That's ridiculous. I see things like Fritos being served at snack in the SACC classrooms within FCPS. Hardly nutritious lunches there and then the cafeteria also sells non-nutritious snacks. |
Anonymous
PP here, my was in public and they did this. |