We’re also at a Big3 school - maybe even the same school- and this irks me to no end. For those saying send in your own snacks (1)- our school doesn’t allow ANY outside food (they claim it’s for allergy concerns and/or they want to encourage healthy eating and can’t do that if parents are sending in junk food for their picky eater. Complete BS since they’re just providing junk!) and (2)- good luck telling your kindergartener they have to eat your carrot sticks while their classmates all eat chips. I have complained multiple times and will keep on complaining. It’s such a big deal to us we’re considering leaving. I don’t have any judgement for families who eat this way, especially when it’s for financial reasons, but our family has hereditary health issues and we’re hoping to get our kid off to the right start. And for the insane amount of tuition, I expect better.

OP here. I'm not a stay-at-home-mom, and while I understand it's easy to snark, the reality is that what kids eat at this age is important. Sending my kid with their own snacks is not a realistic option when the whole class is being offered different snacks. Anyways, I just wanted to get a sense of what snacks are being served at other private schools in elementary school and whether they are different. If anyone has any experience-based thoughts on that, I'd be grateful.

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Anonymous wrote:Either bring your own snacks or shut up about the complementary snacks. All the complaining by stay at home moms with nothing better to do will just make them eliminate the snacks altogether for everyone.

Something that is part of the tuition is not complementary.

Check the enrollment contract. Daily snacks are not included.

Bring in healthier snacks for the whole class.

If you are not bringing in your own snacks, and are just taking the school backup snack, what exactly are you upset about?

Oh nO nOt CheEz-ItS aT a PriVatE ScHoOl!!!!

Anonymous wrote:My child is in kindergarten at one of the Big3 DC private schools. I have been constantly surprised at the low quality of the snacks they give to the kids. There is usually a fruit option, but also potato chips, cheez its, and other unhealthy garbage that I don't want my kid eating every single day (or maybe even twice a day, if there is an afternoon snack). I know they end up eating that stuff at birthday parties, but it feels different to have it incorporated into their diet everyday. What is the experience like for snacks at other schools?

Wait until you learn that every birthdays are celebrated and parents bring craps to each of them. I was the only one who brought organic things for the kids, all the other parents did not.

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Anonymous wrote:Either bring your own snacks or shut up about the complementary snacks. All the complaining by stay at home moms with nothing better to do will just make them eliminate the snacks altogether for everyone.

Would you rather they do not provide any complementary snacks? Your complaining is beyond obnoxious. Either bring snacks yourself or keep your mouth shut.

The snacks are not complementary unless they're telling you how pretty you are. Guess you two didn't attend private schools.

Yes the school can eliminate snacks and require all parents to bring them in. The complaints are not worth it.

Tell me where in the enrollment contract or outlines the snack contract?

They can just change policy and require parents to bring in snacks. None provided.

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Anonymous wrote:Based on what I saw when we were looking at schools, I believe that was Georgetown Day who provided that level of snacks, the other schools seemed to offer much healthier options and I thought it was a parent preference sort of thing... may be worth having a conversation with the school admin about because it did seem like an interesting point of difference that made me feel a little unsure, but like not enough to change the school's ranking on our list...

Many schools with a tuition of 60k or more offer junk food for snacks.

Because despite the hefty price tag, the kids are the same and like and eat the same junk as others kids. They are just giving the kids what they like and will eat.

No, no, no. The children are wonderful, amazing beings and the school is magical.

I remember getting cookies and milk or juice at ncs middle school every morning. Fridays after cathedral we would get orange juice and some of them would be frozen which we thought was delicious and we would all run from cathedral so we could get one of the frozen orange juices.

In retrospect it seems odd to give kids cookies every morning. but we were all skinny

Anonymous wrote:Either bring your own snacks or shut up about the complementary snacks. All the complaining by stay at home moms with nothing better to do will just make them eliminate the snacks altogether for everyone.

SAHMs? Where did you get that?

And it’s complimentary.

Maybe you should shut it.

Anonymous wrote:My child is in kindergarten at one of the Big3 DC private schools. I have been constantly surprised at the low quality of the snacks they give to the kids. There is usually a fruit option, but also potato chips, cheez its, and other unhealthy garbage that I don't want my kid eating every single day (or maybe even twice a day, if there is an afternoon snack). I know they end up eating that stuff at birthday parties, but it feels different to have it incorporated into their diet everyday. What is the experience like for snacks at other schools?

Parent your child to select the fruit.

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Anonymous wrote:Either bring your own snacks or shut up about the complementary snacks. All the complaining by stay at home moms with nothing better to do will just make them eliminate the snacks altogether for everyone.

Would you rather they do not provide any complementary snacks? Your complaining is beyond obnoxious. Either bring snacks yourself or keep your mouth shut.

The snacks are not complementary unless they're telling you how pretty you are. Guess you two didn't attend private schools.

What would you suggest as an alternative?