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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who cares? [b]I don't understand why they don't just tack on a snack fee at the beginning of the year and then go buy shelf stable snacks in bulk at Costco one time.[/b] Is it really a good use of everyone's time for the teachers to set up these sign up sheets, have to send out multiple reminders for people to sign up, then families to separately go out and buy snacks every week? Why? Why would anyone organize it this way?

Is the point to make sure kids have access to snacks, or is it to add yet another item to every family's to do list? I get why someone might just opt out. Or forget. Or think "my kid never even eats the snack and this is a hassle, why am I participating in this."

Add in the fact that there are always a laundry list of rules about what snacks are allowed and you get to the point where there are only like 4 permitted snacks anyway. So ask families to Venmo you some money and then go to Costco once and get a bunch of those snacks at the lowest per-unit price possible. Heck, see if a parent will volunteer to do this -- I would happily make one Costco run early in the year if it means I never get an email about freaking snack sign up again.[/quote]

Because 1) the school doesn’t have enough storage space for a years worth of snacks, and 2) the rats will eat them all by Labor Day.

Why don’t you volunteer your house as storage for all the snacks? [/quote]

It sounds like the school in question has much bigger issues than whether Tommy's mom signed up to send class for after school Lego club the second week of May, then.

Maybe instead of complaining about that, you can do something about the rodent infestation and poor storage facilities. Maybe Tommy's mom recently had surgery or her dad died and she has other things on her mind.[/quote]

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