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Anonymous wrote:I'm more of a Stoneyfield or Chobani girl myself, but has anyone looked at the nutrition information for Yoplait's "Trix" Yogurt? It's not like we're talking about Cheetos, people.

http://www.yoplait.com/products/yoplaittrixyogurt

Seriously, this is less sugar than that box of organic juice you give your kids.

Which is probably why Chartwell uses it since it falls under thier guidelines.

Anonymous wrote:It may look trivial to complain about yogurt/McD/TV, given all the issues Title 1 schools have to address; it clearly rubs people the wrong way. But maybe those are the obvious things "gentrifiers" feel comfortable addressing. They hardly can march in there and start demanding whole-scale curriculum change - imagine the reaction to that. Let it go - a donut here and there isn't so bad, but a regular diet of junk food isn't so good - if there is a way to use funds to promote healthier eating habits, why not? Or steer the energies towards things like art supplies, like one poster suggested. Sounds to me like, if parents want to help, want to make an investment in the future of a school, why is it so important to fight it? Pick the things that need fixing and go for it. Together. That's the goal, right?

Whether rich or poor, parents do not make curriculum decisions - especially in the age of grant money, and both DCPS and many DCPCSs have received lots of it.

The idea that anyone can "march in there" and make curriculum changes betrays genuine ignorance. Stop it. If you hate the idea of your children being in school with greater than 20% FARMS students then move or go private.

(My money is where my mouth is. I've already put one child in private.)

It can't go both ways - there can't be complaints about the achievement gap and then complaints about parents efforts to bring changes that help eliminate the achievement gap.

The little things do matter. It's hundreds of those little things that added up are making sure that higher SES children are achieving more than lower income counterparts.

By itself, Trix yogurt doesn't seem like a big deal but school is an excellent place to teach kids the basics of good nutrition and healthy eating. It's something that the high SES kids will learn at home but that might not be true for the low SES kids. In addition to it just being useful everyday knowledge it introduces children to science concepts and scientific vocabulary.

Watching one TV show a week might not be a big deal but instead of that one tv show if the staff instead took the time to talk to the kids or even read books out loud that would increase vocabulary exposure for low income kids and that in turn could help with academic success in a way that watching Dora never will.

Anonymous wrote:Michelle Obama can lead a child to plain, unflavored, sugar-free, greek-style yogurt, but she can't make him eat it.

And most won't if it isn't something they've been eating at home. It will be more food wasted. Seaweed anyone?

Michelle Obama can lead a child to plain, unflavored, sugar-free, greek-style yogurt, but she can't make him eat it.

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Anonymous wrote:Our principal at our title 1 school Powell, is very receptive to us gentrifiers. Its been up and coming school before most of us started attending.

I love that you call yourself a gentrifier

Yuck I noticed that too.

NP. What is wrong with noting how people would see you? I'm pretty sure people look at me and think "gentrifier" too. It's not something I specifically strive for, but it's an accurate description.

What's wrong with the term? Is it supposed to be derogatory?

The family four doors down from us has lived here for generations. They're not young, so when the weather is bad I go "ice bite" their steps. It's not hard to be a good neighbor. When we had work done on our roof, the grandfather stood there in the alley for a couple of hours until I got home - he was making sure nobody was messing around with our house. Your neighbors don't mind you gentrifying, they like improvements in city services too. Just make friends with them.

Be nice. Life is really that easy.

It may look trivial to complain about yogurt/McD/TV, given all the issues Title 1 schools have to address; it clearly rubs people the wrong way. But maybe those are the obvious things "gentrifiers" feel comfortable addressing. They hardly can march in there and start demanding whole-scale curriculum change - imagine the reaction to that. Let it go - a donut here and there isn't so bad, but a regular diet of junk food isn't so good - if there is a way to use funds to promote healthier eating habits, why not? Or steer the energies towards things like art supplies, like one poster suggested. Sounds to me like, if parents want to help, want to make an investment in the future of a school, why is it so important to fight it? Pick the things that need fixing and go for it. Together. That's the goal, right?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our principal at our title 1 school Powell, is very receptive to us gentrifiers. Its been up and coming school before most of us started attending.

I love that you call yourself a gentrifier

Yuck I noticed that too.

NP. What is wrong with noting how people would see you? I'm pretty sure people look at me and think "gentrifier" too. It's not something I specifically strive for, but it's an accurate description.

What's wrong with the term? Is it supposed to be derogatory?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our principal at our title 1 school Powell, is very receptive to us gentrifiers. Its been up and coming school before most of us started attending.

I love that you call yourself a gentrifier

Yuck I noticed that too.

NP. What is wrong with noting how people would see you? I'm pretty sure people look at me and think "gentrifier" too. It's not something I specifically strive for, but it's an accurate description.

we are an upper middle class white family at a Title I EOTP school.

BUT, we also allow screen time (lots on the weekends), sweetened yogurt and I am pretty sure DH takes the kids for donuts on Sunday mornings, and I suspect McDonalds, since the kids know the phrase "Happy Meal."

Which I guess makes us the worst of all possible worlds: entitled gentrifiers with terrible values and habits.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our principal at our title 1 school Powell, is very receptive to us gentrifiers. Its been up and coming school before most of us started attending.

I love that you call yourself a gentrifier

Yuck I noticed that too.

Call a spade a spade, no?

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Anonymous wrote:Our principal at our title 1 school Powell, is very receptive to us gentrifiers. Its been up and coming school before most of us started attending.

I love that you call yourself a gentrifier

Yuck I noticed that too.

Yes, yes, it all comes down to the Trix

Odd. Yoplait make Trix yogurt, which has a lot of objectionable ingredients, but Yoplait also makes another yogurt with no objectionable ingredients. Why would they serve the bad one to school kids?

http://www.labelwatch.com/prod_results.php?pid=363503

This Poison Trix lady is giving DCUM some of the most batshit, uppity business I've seen in a while.

I don't love it, but I'm sane enough to know he difference between 1 Trix yogurt a month and a force-fed diet of McDonalds.

Trix are for kids. They ain't for crazy bitches!