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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't seen anybody else say lunch policing by teachers happens at their school.  So this is a problem happening to the family of one person.  Is that really worth 27 pages of criticizing teachers?[/quote]

It’s not criticizing teachers if no other teachers are doing it.  (At least one teacher on the thread does follow a dessert last model though. 
 It’s a debate in part about the importance of healthy feeding approaches versus just following rules no matter how misguided. 
Plenty of people think parents should just suck it up and tell their dc to do what the teacher says. 
Other parents don’t want teachers imparting unhealthy attitudes about food to their children.

Teachers are great and I am thankful for my child’s teachers every day.  They don’t need the extra burden of policing kids food though and some parents don’t want them to so really not sure what the problem is - less work for teachers, happier parents, no unhealthy rules - win win win all around :) [/quote]

Win win = don't send cookies, even "healthy" ones.  There have been a lot of posts advocating the opposite.  That's lose lose lose.[/quote]

That’s not “win-win” it’s keeping a child from having part of her lunch for no reason other than to give the teacher the opportunity to make unhealthy rules that’s a lose for all the students and no one really benefits because this teacher will eventually have a student whose food she cannot police due to allergies or religious constrains.  She has to either learn good boundaries around her students food now or then.[/quote]

Sensible preschools (and elementary schools) prohibit candy and cookies/sweets.  Saves so many headaches for everyone.[/quote]

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