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Originally Posted by Sea Dangles
Social development is not a job for teachers.If they have to waste their time with such matters we are doomed.Although I have been asked to bring in cupcakes for my childrens birthdays before,I reluctantly did so to keep the peace.You have to figure it's 20-30 minutes after cleanup,of wasted time for teachers and students alike just so Sally can have a party in her honor.Rent a bowling alley or go to laser zone if you feel obliged to do so. Then you will know how the teacher feels about this nonsense.We have done it all and will continue to do so,magicians,puppeteers,jumpy houses,pool parties.....just invite the class to your home and feel the LOVE!
Jeez Jimmy,how would you react to a legitimate problem?How many times does a kid take a plane to the eye before you decide it's probably a bad idea?I sympathize with the educators that have to pacify parents who have their own ideas about enhancing their childs educational experience.
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I used to value your opinion but now I can figure out if your dense or just like to argue. For yours and Redsox info - cupcakes for b-days are eaten at snack time, which the kids have every singe day. The kid who is celebrating their bday hands them out. The kids then clean up after themselves. Zero impact on the teacher, zero impact on valuable class time. Zero long term impact on their waistlines. So there goes 99% of your argument.
Dangles, cupcake banning is just one more example of liberal wackery. So if Joe Handsome gets all the chicks and Johnny Ugly cant get a date for the prom, should we ban proms? Where does it end? Should we only have lean and trim teachers in the classroom? Wouldnt fat ones set a bad example? So we ban paper airplanes for the 1 in 1,000,000,000.26 chance a kid can get hit in the eye.....how many future engineers, pilots, scientists may not be fascinated by flight ? I know i was as a kid. I want my kids to dream big, explore, take chances and if they suck down too many cupcakes they can learn the consequences and take action to get back in shape. I guess you look up to the people that tell you what to do, I look up to those that create their own paths. We keep boxing these kids into some world created by average citizens - teachers, adminstrators, boards who never traveled and lived 10 mins away from where they've grown up.
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