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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid's teachers don't let them have a snack to get them through until lunch then you ought to complain to admin and get other parents to also complain.  There's no reason kids shouldn't have a snack.  I guarantee you teachers and principals have snacks when they want to.

At the very least for a HS kid I would encourage them to put some snacks in their backpack, like half a sandwich, a piece of fruit, etc., and eat it whenever they have a few minutes.  If anyone gives them any crap about this start the complaining.[/quote]

It's probably admin telling them no snacks are allowed.  Admin is almost always the problem, and not the solution.[/quote]

Admin has to be part of the solution.  I worked at an elementary school for many years and it often wasn't until parents, and I mean more than one, complained about a situation that something would finally get done about it.  Typically staff complaining had almost no effect, but parents did.  So don't just assume it's pointless to go to admin, and I mean not just once if necessary.  If parental concerns are ignored by admin at your child's school then I'd say it's time to find a different school.[/quote]

One can't just "find a different school."  It's not like shoe shopping.  You'd have to sell your house.  And since admin can change at any moment, there is no guarantee you'd find something better.

And I am also a former teacher, and used to think it was true that parents had power.  Then I became a parent, and learned that parents don't have any more power than teachers.  Admins do what they want, and are accountable to no one.[/quote]

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