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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ouch, probably not very well thought out exercise. Someone probably saw that video and thought we'll make the privileged kids realize their privilege - failing to see that it would be at the expense of the underprivileged.[b] Another privilege of the privileged.[/b] [/quote]

This is a good point.  At my DD's elementary school each year there was a school-wide science project where each kid had to construct a way to drop a raw egg off the roof of the school without it breaking.  I was on food stamps all through DD's elementary school years. There were times I couldn't afford to pay for the train to get her to school. Each year I had to tell her teacher ahead of time that DD would not be contributing an egg - that we could not afford to waste protein that way.  And by 2nd grade DD was aware enough of the waste that she was uncomfortable watching so much viable food go uneaten that she didn't want to participate.  [/quote]

That was me as a child too.  Couldn’t do homework counting commercial minutes (no tv).  Wasn’t comfortable with the experiment about rotting fruit (several whole, large pieces, and we all watched them rot away) or the sedimentary rock experiment (7!!! different colors of bread, squished flat under kids’ books in their desks).  We never contributed food for experiments, and I could only contribute food to class parties when we were allowed to bring something that wasn’t closed.  Very isolating.[/quote]

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