Last year my child's school allowed the kids to bring store bought treats to the cafeteria to share with their class. This year, my child told me there were no celebrations allowed. Haven't gotten the official memo from the school yet about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Westland doesn’t allow this. More of cancelling the fun part of childhood while cramming social politics down our throats.

Definitely feels like MCPS wants to suck every ounce of fun out of ES.

No time for birthday celebrations, but plenty of time for our librarian to read books about gender identity to my 4th grader.

Maybe you should homeschool.

In K we were not allowed treats but were allowed to bring little things like erasers to give out and the birthday kid got a paper crown and a special job for the day. It was fine and still fun per my kid.

Anonymous wrote:Westland doesn’t allow this. More of cancelling the fun part of childhood while cramming social politics down our throats.

Definitely feels like MCPS wants to suck every ounce of fun out of ES.

No time for birthday celebrations, but plenty of time for our librarian to read books about gender identity to my 4th grader.

Banned more than 10 years ago at our W elementary school (two kids went through allowing bday treats, one was there when the new policy started).

Allergies (not just nuts, wheat, dairy, and more) were the reason. Even the class Halloween party was apples and popcorn. Sad. But, as I explained to DC #3, you can still have those treats at another time, imagine being that child who can never have them, and how unsafe it would be to have those items at school

Anonymous wrote:Westland doesn’t allow this. More of cancelling the fun part of childhood while cramming social politics down our throats.

Grow up.

Westland doesn’t allow this. More of cancelling the fun part of childhood while cramming social politics down our throats.

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Anonymous wrote:No birthday celebrations at my Focus school. It’s actually sad as the majority of kids can’t afford a party and the celebration used to be their friend celebration. Instead, they just get announced on the announcements and get a pencil from the office.

Same at our Focus school. Often the kids don’t have birthday parties where they can invite classmates. And the kids would look forward to handing our cupcakes at school. Even the lower/income families would send in small treats. It was equitable and fun. And took up less than 10 minutes at the end of the day.

Can’t think of a good reason why they nixed these.

You can’t think of anaphylaxis from peanut and tree nut exposure?

BS

There are PLENTY of nut-free options and our school required nut-free birthday treats.

There are PLENTY of clueless, careless parents who don’t get it. “This doesn’t have peanuts!” Well, it does contain TREE NUTS, which are also deadly to some kids.

Stay mad.

Up until this year, our ES had a policy that all birthday trays had to be store-brought and nut-free. Parents sent in items in their original packaging. I have been at the school for 7 years and 3 kids and it has NEVER been an issue.

Also, you sound like a peach. My guess is that you are miserable and unhappy and you want others to feel the same.

Sounds like this is an MCPS-wide decision. Except for that one poster who says it’s still allowed. Unless that poster is at a private school?

No food. But bringing in some other kind of treat is fine.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No birthday celebrations at my Focus school. It’s actually sad as the majority of kids can’t afford a party and the celebration used to be their friend celebration. Instead, they just get announced on the announcements and get a pencil from the office.

Same at our Focus school. Often the kids don’t have birthday parties where they can invite classmates. And the kids would look forward to handing our cupcakes at school. Even the lower/income families would send in small treats. It was equitable and fun. And took up less than 10 minutes at the end of the day.

Can’t think of a good reason why they nixed these.

You can’t think of anaphylaxis from peanut and tree nut exposure?

BS

There are PLENTY of nut-free options and our school required nut-free birthday treats.

There are PLENTY of clueless, careless parents who don’t get it. “This doesn’t have peanuts!” Well, it does contain TREE NUTS, which are also deadly to some kids.

Stay mad.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that like 10 of you posted all baffled proves that you are so clueless about allergy risk that of course it came to this.

There are nut free cup cakes.

There are even more clueless parents. “This only says MAY contain nuts, it doesn’t contain nuts!” Or sends in homemade who-knows-what.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that like 10 of you posted all baffled proves that you are so clueless about allergy risk that of course it came to this.

There are nut free cup cakes.

Or Skittles, or Oreos, or nut-free cookies.

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Anonymous wrote:No birthday celebrations at my Focus school. It’s actually sad as the majority of kids can’t afford a party and the celebration used to be their friend celebration. Instead, they just get announced on the announcements and get a pencil from the office.

Same at our Focus school. Often the kids don’t have birthday parties where they can invite classmates. And the kids would look forward to handing our cupcakes at school. Even the lower/income families would send in small treats. It was equitable and fun. And took up less than 10 minutes at the end of the day.

Can’t think of a good reason why they nixed these.

You can’t think of anaphylaxis from peanut and tree nut exposure?

BS

There are PLENTY of nut-free options and our school required nut-free birthday treats.

Anonymous wrote:The fact that like 10 of you posted all baffled proves that you are so clueless about allergy risk that of course it came to this.

There are nut free cup cakes.