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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't want my kid to eat Dominos or whatever crap you're feeding them.[/quote]

So, its ok for you to feed them crap, but not have it 1-4 times a year at school.  Many kids don't go to parties so for them, its important.[/quote]

Wait -

Are you saying that eating pizza is important or partying with their friends?  A school party doesn't have to involve pizza.  Party refreshments could be cookies, chips, popcorn, fruit, etc.

I'm sorry if kids don't go to parties outside of school, but you can't replicate that experience in school.  They're two different types of experiences.  I agree with the teacher who posted earlier saying that parties should be kept simple.  They should be a fun break, not a major disruption.

Growing up, our school had a Halloween carnival in the evening, but nothing during the school day.  For Valentines Day, we did a card exchange, but I don't recall any refreshments  (if there were any it probably would have been a couple of cookies per kid).  For Christmas, we probably had cookies, but I don't really remember.  There weren't any games.  I mainly remember holidays involving the teachers doing crafts, maybe songs and/or stories with us leading up to the holiday.  Sometimes for special occasions they'd show us movies and give us popcorn.  While it was nowhere as elaborate as the school parties my kids have had (and theirs never included pizza), it was a fun break from the routine which is what we really wanted.  The parties at my kids' school seem to be overly done, very disruptive, and unnecessarily stressful (in some ways even for the kids).[/quote]

By the time you buy all the snack food, you can buy a few pizza's and be done with it for the same cost.  I've done it both ways and the pizza ended up being cheaper vs. a selection of snack food.  I think its interesting how many people assume whats what when they are not organizing it.  A bag of chips is $4-5 dollars.  You need a few bags,  so there is the cost of pizza right there.

We had school parties growing up.

Its not about replicating at school vs. not but not all kids have great home lives and this is a highlight for them.[/quote]

But they don’t need “all the snack food” either.  Buy or make 1 treat.

I am a teacher and I am a big believer in celebrating with kids, especially in ways that celebrate them.  But there are so many free or super cheap ways you can celebrate with a child, it doesn’t have to be 5 types of food, commercial decorations, and an hour of lost instructional time.  A celebration can be sitting in the teacher’s chair, wearing a crown your y classmates made you “in secret” at lunchtime and having your classsmates song you a special birthday song.  Or it can be taking your poetry outside and reading it under the trees like a transcendentalist and the starting recess 5 minutes early.  One time my class decided they wanted to celebrate something by giving themselves silly names that I was to try and remember to call them for the day.  Lots of ways for me to model how to look up things you forgot, and for them to model how to be gracious when some one makes a mistake and calls you Queen Puppy when your name is really Princes Hamster.

If you would like to spend $135 on things to bring more joy to our classroom, ask me and I will tell you I want colored ink so I can print more photos to remember their accomplishments (an awesome decorations, and writing prompts), some thin point washable markets for indoor recess, and enough playing cards for the whole class to play math games.  Tell me you want a day when parents can come in and celebrate with the kids, and I will tell you to skip Valentine’s Day (we’ll do something in class) and come to our author’s celebration to hear us read our work (no craft needed, and that $25 cupcake and water menu above sounds perfect).[/quote]

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