Apparently, a grade school lunchroom watchdog didn't like that a kid brought a brownie in her lunch from home. The aide, according to Cal's article, told the kid that the brownie wasn't good for her and that she couldn't eat it.
Pardon me???????????
Maybe she had a food allergy that her mother had disregarded... (I doubt that.)
Did the brownie have some special ingredient that Brinks, the Woodstock PD K-9, would have noticed? I doubt it.
Was the kid maybe a little on the chubby side?
Well, the aide ought to look around at the teachers. Take aware their brownies! Was the aide a Size 0? What did she do with the brownie? Did she eat it herself?
If this story is true (and why wouldn't it be?), then the Principal and the aide both owe apologies to the student and to the parents, in writing, and hand-delivered on Tuesday..
Schools are closed on February 20. Maybe the staff will be home and baking brownies...
Who knows which grade school in Woodstock was involved?
The D-200 School Board will hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday, February 21, at 7:00PM at the District Administrative Services Building. (The address was not given in the agenda; the meeting may be at 227 W. Judd St.) The only agenda item is an Executive Session for a personnel issue, so it may have to do with the recent suspension of a WNHS teacher.
Keep in mind that District 200 is a "public body" and all meetings of the School Board are open to the public. The public cannot attend the Executive Session, but you can be there before and when it end. The School Board is not to make a decision in private. It must leave the Executive Session, re-convene in public session, take a rollcall vote of members still present in the re-convened open session and then act only on any motion made in the public session.
No public comment item is included in the agenda. My guess is, if 100-200 parents showed up Tuesday night, the Board might be willing to listen. You probably wouldn't even have to wait long. The Executive Session could be as short as five minutes, if they all have their minds already made up.
8 comments:
Been there, done that. I had to have my Dr. call the school AND speak to the Dist. because my daughter has always been vegan. Rice cakes, granola with natural honey, unbuttered, unsalted popcorn and fresh fruit was too much for the nosey lunchroom watchdog. I guess she believed she knew better than the childs mother and doctor. High sodium and fat "Lunchables" would never have raised an eyebrow ...
There will always be nosey, ignorant people out there that force you to deal with them.
Well, Karen, I guess you are just a bad mother. Of all things! Sending healthy food to school with your daughter. How could you dare to do such a thing? It's a good thing that you didn't send a knife along so that she could cut up the fruit! She would have been expelled and you'd be in jail as a terrorist.
These lunchroom police are right in line with the mandatory vaccine police! Hopefully with all of the people that are waking up to what is going on in the world we will take back the right to feed and raise our children. Now if we could only find food that is not filled with poisons, GMO,etc., etc. to be able to make fresh healthy home cooked foods. That is where the challenge will be I think. Schools and government need to get back to the job they are paid, by us, to do!!!!!
TMB is, and most always has been, on a liquid diet. Hmmm... I always wondered why German Shepherds, Begian Tervurens, and other "police-type" canines would always be barking at my metal Herbie lunchbox??? DOH!
Just to play devils advocate...it it turns out the brownie was an 8" x 8" square with 1/2" of frosting topped with sprinkles...you would b singing a different tune! I read about the NC case, and honestly I have mixed feelings. "good parents" complain when they are questioned, or their wisdom is questioned...but not every kid has "good parents", and I would posit that most don't. When a kid comes to school with nothing but junk food for lunch, it's the "good parents" asking where is the school? Why isn't someone doing something about this?
These lunchroom police are a response to the outcry over kids coming to school loaded down with junk food. If this woman's job is to look out for all kids, it is inevitable that disagreements will occur.....but don't jump n the termination bandwagon without knowing all the facts.
MBlue, thanks for your insightful comment. I'm hoping some Woodstock parents with first-hand knowledge with chime in.
I agree with you about 8"x8" square. That's my serving size! Have to wash fewer dishes that way.
Now what? Portion control watchdogs?
Don't people have anything better to do?
Look for ... bullying (verbal and physical), not following the rules, being rowdy and reckless, etc. It's not anyones job to be the damn food and portion control police.
People are getting stupider and stupider ...
Unfortunately Keren, that's why the food and portion police are there...because parents are getting stupider and stupider. When kids are living on junk food...especially sugary crap...that impacts every child in their class because that kid is more likely to have problems that's drag down the "good" kids. And it isn't always bullying...a junk food diet impacts that kid's mental ability....which "slows down" instruction and ultimately robs the "good" kids of classroom learning. If the school doesnt step in, then there is no one looking out for these kids with shitty parents....and you and me will wind up bearing the price for that in our taxes when those kids slip into the ranks of the poor and unemployable.
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