Teacher Snack Bar

[Anonymous]

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PTA needs to pick their battles wisely, which they are not doing. They are too busy fighting over whether kids should have smartpop or regular popcorn at their holiday parties ...

This. And the school system/teachers are happy to have parents arguing over minutiae rather than important issues.

Oooh! A conspiracy!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So let me get this straight: If someone wanted to provide you, at your job, with some kind of food, like lunch, snacks, pizza, candy, doughtnuts, fruit...whatever...you wouldn't like that?

Let's say your clients, whoever they are, wanted to do that to show appreciation. Or maybe your boss or company owner wanted to do it.

You wouldn't like and appreciate that?

Just wondering.

No, it's weird. I am an adult professional, why do I need someone coming by with plates of junk to feed me like I'm a zoo animal? If I'm hungry I know how to procure food. I don't require a donut bar to get grading done. So not only do I not want it, it's there anyway, parents are mad at us like we created this expectation and work for them to do it, and we have to go thank the PTA moms for putting together a snack bar nobody asked for and then listen as they martyr themselves for how much work it was. Meanwhile I am thinking to myself they need to just go home and quit hanging around the main office arranging cookies.

Clearly that was NOT a teacher who typed that. It’s obvious.

Don't know what to tell you. I am a high school teacher. Not sure why it's hard for you to believe we are not all gobblemonsters who want a bunch of donated Poptarts and cookies wheeled to us by other adults like we are preschoolers or airplane passengers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No.

I've talked to teachers who don't want this sort of thing. For various reasons. I wouldn't contribute.

You want to show appreciation? Send your kid ready for the day. Back up the teacher. Don't bitch about how easy their job is and how much "time off" they have.

My guess would be that ‘the reason’ is because people give ‘expired and yucky snacks’

I volunteered at a wildlife center and people dropped off ‘snacks for the volunteers’ and they were often expired if not always. We fed them to the raccoons.
Raccoons basically eat dog food and garbage snacks, FYI. Teachers? Not so much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No.

I've talked to teachers who don't want this sort of thing. For various reasons. I wouldn't contribute.

You want to show appreciation? Send your kid ready for the day. Back up the teacher. Don't bitch about how easy their job is and how much "time off" they have.

My guess would be that ‘the reason’ is because people give ‘expired and yucky snacks’

I volunteered at a wildlife center and people dropped off ‘snacks for the volunteers’ and they were often expired if not always. We fed them to the raccoons.
Raccoons basically eat dog food and garbage snacks, FYI. Teachers? Not so much.

Sticky buns, ‘donettes’, old cereal bars - all to the raccoons!

[Anonymous]

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PTA needs to pick their battles wisely, which they are not doing. They are too busy fighting over whether kids should have smartpop or regular popcorn at their holiday parties ...

This. And the school system/teachers are happy to have parents arguing over minutiae rather than important issues.

You got it right. The school system/teachers attack parents who report important issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The PTA could organize a cart (if it has to be a cart) with supplies instead of food? It could have tissues, wipes, post-it notes, hand sanitizer, pencils, whatever. I'm not a teacher but I can only assume that parents making an effort to replenish supplies would be more welcome by teachers than fattening them up with cookies. Maybe make a small care package for each teacher filled with much needed supplies, and then the PTA moms who love busy work can roll the cart to each classroom to hand out the supplies in person. Win for everyone.

BEST POST ON THE TOPIC.

Hmmm. Maybe. But what about all the rest of the school staff who don't need a bunch of supplies? Not only that, I doubt there is a school in the DC area that is running low on supplies. Other places, yes, but not here.

You do realize that the DC area isn't full of well to do schools, right? I teach in a Title 1 school (not in DC) and I just bought my first pack of tissues over the weekend. This is what happens when only 1/4 of the class brings in supplies. Tissues are not required so people don't bring them in. Get out of your bubble.

Original tissue poster here. I have hundreds of pencils and plenty of dry erase markers, pens, post it’s and paper. I don’t need a supply cart. Just the tissues please if you feel the need to donate anything to the school.

[Anonymous]

Former teacher here. One year the PTA made all the moms willing bake cookies and they spent all this time putting together beautiful plates for each of us. After school there was a massive dump of cookies in the teacher's lounge. By 5pm the principal was asking for help throwing it away and carting off the trash so we didn't get a rodent problem. Everyone thanks the PTA profusely, but really it is making a big assumption assuming people want junk food. Do you know how many times teachers are offered cupcakes and cookies from kids for birthdays and class parties? Junk food is empty calories and I really think in this day and age for some of the uber thin moms it is a passive aggressive to give something they wouldn't dare eat themselves. Teachers care about being healthy and keeping their kids healthy too.

Now the health lunches were truly appreciated and gobbled down and good fruit went fast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher here. One year the PTA made all the moms willing bake cookies and they spent all this time putting together beautiful plates for each of us. After school there was a massive dump of cookies in the teacher's lounge. By 5pm the principal was asking for help throwing it away and carting off the trash so we didn't get a rodent problem. Everyone thanks the PTA profusely, but really it is making a big assumption assuming people want junk food. Do you know how many times teachers are offered cupcakes and cookies from kids for birthdays and class parties? Junk food is empty calories and I really think in this day and age for some of the uber thin moms it is a passive aggressive to give something they wouldn't dare eat themselves. Teachers care about being healthy and keeping their kids healthy too.

Now the health lunches were truly appreciated and gobbled down and good fruit went fast.

Then...why do you offer junk food for kids?

[Anonymous]

Our PTA gives out little bags with protein bars, bottled water, and travel-sized packets of Advil on conference days. I found it pretty funny.

[Anonymous]

All this cutesy stuff ... and needing to "thank" teachers all-the-time ... it gets old. I lose respect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher here. One year the PTA made all the moms willing bake cookies and they spent all this time putting together beautiful plates for each of us. After school there was a massive dump of cookies in the teacher's lounge. By 5pm the principal was asking for help throwing it away and carting off the trash so we didn't get a rodent problem. Everyone thanks the PTA profusely, but really it is making a big assumption assuming people want junk food. Do you know how many times teachers are offered cupcakes and cookies from kids for birthdays and class parties? Junk food is empty calories and I really think in this day and age for some of the uber thin moms it is a passive aggressive to give something they wouldn't dare eat themselves. Teachers care about being healthy and keeping their kids healthy too.

Now the health lunches were truly appreciated and gobbled down and good fruit went fast.

Then...why do you offer junk food for kids?

We don't?? Wtf. Teachers don't bring in junk for students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this cutesy stuff ... and needing to "thank" teachers all-the-time ... it gets old. I lose respect.

Again, lose respect for the PTA then. As many teachers have posted, WE DO NOT WANT IT. Don't get mad at us some bored housewife needed a project. I don't need or want any of this crap. The best thing you can do is support your kid and send them to school prepared to learn so I can do my job. That is the best gift you can give me and the best part is it still mostly benefits you and your kid. Feel free to skip cookies and flowers and teacher mugs and snack carts Starbucks gift cards I just regift anyway. And tell the PTA why so they can stop doing it!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All this cutesy stuff ... and needing to "thank" teachers all-the-time ... it gets old. I lose respect.

Again, lose respect for the PTA then. As many teachers have posted, WE DO NOT WANT IT. Don't get mad at us some bored housewife needed a project. I don't need or want any of this crap. The best thing you can do is support your kid and send them to school prepared to learn so I can do my job. That is the best gift you can give me and the best part is it still mostly benefits you and your kid. Feel free to skip cookies and flowers and teacher mugs and snack carts Starbucks gift cards I just regift anyway. And tell the PTA why so they can stop doing it!

You must be the life of every party. (Sarcasm) What an ungrateful Debby Downer. Fortunately most teachers genuinely appreciate the thoughtfulness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this cutesy stuff ... and needing to "thank" teachers all-the-time ... it gets old. I lose respect.

Again, lose respect for the PTA then. As many teachers have posted, WE DO NOT WANT IT. Don't get mad at us some bored housewife needed a project. I don't need or want any of this crap. The best thing you can do is support your kid and send them to school prepared to learn so I can do my job. That is the best gift you can give me and the best part is it still mostly benefits you and your kid. Feel free to skip cookies and flowers and teacher mugs and snack carts Starbucks gift cards I just regift anyway. And tell the PTA why so they can stop doing it!

You must be the life of every party. (Sarcasm) What an ungrateful Debby Downer. Fortunately most teachers genuinely appreciate the thoughtfulness.

The ungrateful Debby Downer expects parents to do all the teacher’s job at home. Videos in the classroom are the new norm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher here. One year the PTA made all the moms willing bake cookies and they spent all this time putting together beautiful plates for each of us. After school there was a massive dump of cookies in the teacher's lounge. By 5pm the principal was asking for help throwing it away and carting off the trash so we didn't get a rodent problem. Everyone thanks the PTA profusely, but really it is making a big assumption assuming people want junk food. Do you know how many times teachers are offered cupcakes and cookies from kids for birthdays and class parties? Junk food is empty calories and I really think in this day and age for some of the uber thin moms it is a passive aggressive to give something they wouldn't dare eat themselves. Teachers care about being healthy and keeping their kids healthy too.

Now the health lunches were truly appreciated and gobbled down and good fruit went fast.

Then...why do you offer junk food for kids?

We don't?? Wtf. Teachers don't bring in junk for students.

Wow, is that the new vocabulary???