They beat you? Such coddling! Why I could only envy human contact!
Our teacher wouldn’t touch us, no. She would throw a dictionary (Oxford Unabridged) at us when we answered questions correctly.
That’s your “reward food”? What the hell do you eat when you haven’t done anything reward-worthy that day? A bowl of sand and a glass of seawater?
Ummm, I am with the person quoted in the OP. No, a few donuts for As at the end of each quarter isn’t gong to magically make kids fat.
The problem isn’t the donuts, it’s planting the seeds of “yummy food” as reward. The psychological issues behind why America overeats is, imo, more to blame than the food types themselves.
What happened to dollars for As? There’nothing wrong with rewards for As, but I don’t agree with the whole “food as reward” thing.
What about no food as punishment then? If the kid gets a D, he doesn’t eat until next quarter’s grades.
Oh hell yeah, straight As would get me a couple dozen, glazed.
Ooooh! My first snaking alert!
Ya know??? I thought of that RIGHT after it was too late, and I’d hit submit.
I wasn’t snaking, I was doing my part to rid the world of optimisim and idealism.
Besides, your new schtick has already gotten old.
Sorry, I disagree. What’s foreign and unexpected is the admission that acheivement in anything other than sports is reward-worthy. No, I’m not suggesting rally assemblies for the honor roll students. I’m just saying that both schools and families have a tendency to overvalue and overreward athletic achievements, while letting academic achievements go unrecognized. You made the varsity squad? WOOHOO! I’m taking you out for a steak dinner! You made the honor roll? Good, good…that’s good. What’s for dinner?
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with letting smart and hard-working students know that somebody gives a shit.
Well, I say good too, but only because I’m not in line with food as a reward.
Can’t I post something that I didn’t think all the way through and get away with it? :smack:
But, that being said…
Donuts are not ‘bad for you’, and I don’t like that a representative of a school would cast a vote against donuts, because she struggled/struggles with eating too much.
I want my kid getting every legit offer, with no one screening it because they fear it is unhealthy. If you create a taboo like donuts and don’t bother to include such things in kids diets, then kids don’t learn how to balance one with the other.
Ok, they have some big health initiative at that school, and maybe I should understand that it is easier to shun donut makers than it is to incorporate fun foods into a healthy diets, but I also worry when someone trys to protect me/my family from our own choices.
Let’s walk the line of definitions of “PC”…but when someone trys to protect me/my family from our own choices, then you can drag in ideology.
The school rep wants to protect kids from donuts. No, she can’t stop them from choosing donuts, but she might want to remain nuetral and let the merits of what they are teaching about diets hold up in a real world test.
I simply don’t see how you can view a school declining to advertise a Krispy Kreme promotion in the schools as them trying to protect you and your family from their own choices. Most (normal) people think having ads shoved in their kids’ faces 24 hours a day is a bad thing. I never thought I’d hear someone complain that not advertising was equivalent denying their kids opportunities.
“What if Jimmy doesn’t know how many hamburgers he can get at McDonald’s for $1.99? What will become of him??”
Heck, why stop at nutrition? Schools should probably remain neutral on all science, just to be safe. Who are they to tell your kids they can’t think an atom is made of nougat? The real world will determine whether a nougat-based atom is a useful picture.
Phislter, I absolutely do not understand what you are arguing. How does it interfere with your choices for the school to decline to cooperate with Krispy Kreme’s promotion and to state that they disagree with it? They are not preventing anyone from making the choice!
If AFTER learning the facts about healthy diets, you decide that a dozen Krispy Kremes is a great way to start your day, then it’s absolutely fine – because then it has become an informed choice.
Most of us would agree that one part of curing the Plague of Whiners o’er the Land is to teach our children that actions have consequences and they should take responsibility for those consequences. Well, stating the true fact that “eating a lot of donuts can make you fat, and that’s not healthy for kids” IS creating awareness of consequence of their actions. You teach that in school, and you can then laugh out of court Jabba the Teenager’s lawsuit based on that he had no idea inhaling pastries by the dozen was unhealth.
Giraffe… alas, brother… you do remember there IS one whole major component of serious life-sciences on which many DO succesfully pressure the schools to “remain neutral” about “alternatives”? (How come nobody ever accuses creationists of being PC?)
Biblioholic is a fine descriptor.
Perhaps not, but they sure as hell ain’t good for you.
The school does not have an obligation to push Krispy Kremes. For godsakes, if you’re that hung up about your kids not having donuts, go out and buy them for the kids!
Jesus Christ.