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Anonymous wrote:I don't think there is anything odd about someone snacking at work.

Snacking at work and eating candy and drinking soda all day are different. Plus we are not talking about someone sitting at their desk all day. We are talking about someone who is leading a class and likely front and center, teaching all day.

Actually I think that eating candy and drinking soda all day at work exactly is snacking at work. What else would it be?

really, you don't see a difference, snacking on a granola bar, handful of nuts, trail mix, or even a candy bar is snacking. eating a bag of candy over the course of the day (which I think OP mentioned) is beyond snacking.

If it isn't snacking, what is it?

I would call that pigging out. What else do you call eating a bag of candy daily?

I don't typically trust a child's accuracy regarding size and frequency of other people's snacks.

Exactly! I'm offended OP even saw this as a big enough issue to create a post.

OP needs to teach her child to mind his own business and focus on making sure he's doing what he needs to and making the grade.

What a petty family.

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So while he's telling you about his day do you get the details on the lessons too?

Yes, of course. We discuss what was learned, what new going on with classmates. How is it relevant to the discussed issue?

Obviously the snack isn't distracting from his learning so you have nothing to complain about.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher who drinks a mug of coffee in front of my class every morning. Is that distracting too? She I offer them the opportunity to drink something other than their own water bottles?

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Wow! Guess I am pretty old-fashioned on this one. In the mileu I was raised in, including in school, children would treated with the same respect and manners one would treat an adult. If the children were not allowed to snack in class, neither was the teacher. If it was unavoidable, children would be offered the courtesy of an explanation just as an adult would be. Maybe views on this are a generational thing.

Sorry, i didn't mentioned this and I noticed a lot of people asking about kid's snack. Kids are allowed to have one snack in the classroom and they go to eat lunch in the cafeteria. If candy eating would be a one time snack, it is OK. The situation appears to be that the large bag/jar brought into the class and consumed during the entire day.

Send your kid a big snack so he can eat all day too. A big bag of carrots or something, pack it so it's one snack.

Either you or your child seems very focused on the size of the teacher's snack. If it's your child I'm going to take a guess that he's wishing he could have that snack too. I know you said that isn't happening but I have to wonder.

Anonymous wrote:Your child sounds strangely obsessed with this teacher's candy. I'm guessing you don't allow it at home. Hopefully once he can make his own food choice, he doesn't turn into an obese binge-eater.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher who drinks a mug of coffee in front of my class every morning. Is that distracting too? She I offer them the opportunity to drink something other than their own water bottles?

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So while he's telling you about his day do you get the details on the lessons too?

Yes, of course. We discuss what was learned, what new going on with classmates. How is it relevant to the discussed issue?

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Anonymous wrote:Am surprised a bit by the responses. It seems very unprofessional for a teacher to snack during class. If she misses lunch and has to eat it discreetly at her desk as the teacher PP mentioned, that's okay. It's better if the teacher could ask the class to excuse her because she was unable to eat lunch on time. If the snacking is needed for a medical condition, she should tell the class that, again asking for their indulgence.

I attend plenty of bag lunch meetings at work. But they are all internal and the assumption is that those not eating lunch have already eaten. Snacking with external parties present would never happen unless coffee and cookies, say, were made available for all. I almost always have a mid-afternoon snack; I have people coming into my office all day long and if I really need my snack I ask permission of whomever is there. I usually have extras on hand that I offer them should they wish to join.

I once went to a meeting with one of the top people in our organization in his office. At one point in the meeting, he got up, grabbed a bag of Pepperidge Farm cookies from a closet and proceeded to eat about five of them without offering any to the four or so staff people present. Everyone thought it was inexcusably rude. We all decided he was odd and had no social graces. He did not last long.

That said, all I would have said to my child is that is very odd, I wonder if she has a medical condition that requires her to snack all day. Inwardly, I would wince at the poor example of manners the teacher was modeling. If I had a good relationship with the principal, I might something to her in a vague, nonjudgmental way.

The fact is it is rude to snack in front of people without offering them something.

What? No! No adult should be forced to explain themselves to a child, nor have to ask permission or "indulgence" from a child for anything that doesn't involve that child's safety and personal space. My child does not get to decide whether she will allow her teacher to eat something, or to do anything that doesn't involve teacher touching my child or having my child break a safety rule.

That part of your post seems so entitled on the children's part, I cannot believe you would find it reasonable. That would be an appropriate interaction between peers, or colleagues at the same professional level, not between an adult and a child or between a superior and a subordinate, as are both the case in a teacher-student relationship.

Wow! Guess I am pretty old-fashioned on this one. In the mileu I was raised in, including in school, children would treated with the same respect and manners one would treat an adult. If the children were not allowed to snack in class, neither was the teacher. If it was unavoidable, children would be offered the courtesy of an explanation just as an adult would be. Maybe views on this are a generational thing.

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Wow! Guess I am pretty old-fashioned on this one. In the mileu I was raised in, including in school, children would treated with the same respect and manners one would treat an adult. If the children were not allowed to snack in class, neither was the teacher. If it was unavoidable, children would be offered the courtesy of an explanation just as an adult would be. Maybe views on this are a generational thing.

Sorry, i didn't mentioned this and I noticed a lot of people asking about kid's snack. Kids are allowed to have one snack in the classroom and they go to eat lunch in the cafeteria. If candy eating would be a one time snack, it is OK. The situation appears to be that the large bag/jar brought into the class and consumed during the entire day.

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So while he's telling you about his day do you get the details on the lessons too?

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Wow! Guess I am pretty old-fashioned on this one. In the mileu I was raised in, including in school, children would treated with the same respect and manners one would treat an adult. If the children were not allowed to snack in class, neither was the teacher. If it was unavoidable, children would be offered the courtesy of an explanation just as an adult would be. Maybe views on this are a generational thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Couldn't a "bag of candy" be a small sized bag of M&Ms? Spread over the entire day? Along with a few handfuls of nuts or a granola bar that looks like a candy bar?

No, it is large packages or large jars. My kid is in higher ES classes.

None of your child's business.

Although you might want to kindly email the teacher and let her know that your child appears to be very distracted by her snacking, since you have so much information on it. You did say your child mentions it daily, right?

Is he that involved in the lessons as well.. can he re-iterate what he has learned that day in great detail too?

The child simply telling me about what happening in school, including teachers snacking. No, it is not daily most of the time (I din't keep a track), some weeks i hear about it every day, some weeks every other day, some weeks twice a week.