Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 01, 2012

brilliant

Way to go, Miss Plainwell! Wonder if any “real” teachers will use this in class…

I hate when people created that stupid rules.

Ask a bunch of questions to find what is inside and you can safely said no if something in there that is bad for you.

There is no need to be on fear mode.

As long as you don’t give it to them, there is nothing wrong with them voluntarily eating one………Actually, in the school districts I sub in, I trust any random home more than I would the cafeteria…

@carl craig – sad to say that it very much a rule in a great many of our school districts. Just as a teacher can’t give a student a hug or allow any kind of physical contact between students or students and teacher that might in any way be misconstruded by someone who either saw the contact or just heard about the contact.

Yet spanking is still allowed in many schools!!

Yet spanking has been banned in many schools!!

I think the rule is based more on concern over peanut and other food allergies than the potential messiness of other people’s kitchens…

I remember “parties” were not allowed in classes so our government teacher held a caucus and we just happened to need refreshments during our caucus….

When my daughter was in a Brownie troop, the meetings were held at the leader’s home. When we arrived, the kitchen looked as if it had not been cleaned in years & there was a filthy car engine sitting on the floor. I decided to become a Scout leader immediately!.Allergies are another concern. I knew several children with allergies to: gluten, all corn products, not to mention other usual ingredients.

There are so many rules nowadays, it’s amazing that kids have any fun at all at school.

There are extremists in any group. Yes, the bible does say “spare the rod, spoil the child”, but it is talking about consequences, not general beatings. Anyone who advocates beating a child (or anyone else for that matter) based on that passage from Proverbs is cherry-picking what he wants to hear out of context. The true context of the passage is that discipline is necessary to the proper raising of children, whether that discipline is a swift open-handed swat on the back side or a time-out when appropriate. Some children respond very well to the isolation and implied condemnation of a time-out while others do not.

I saw what you did there. You substituted the word ‘beat’ for ‘disciplined’. Makes your argument so much more powerful.

I don’t know about the twisted words of the representative, but the Bible does NOT have anything in there like that whatsoever.

My kid’s private school allows home made foods but has a rule of no class treats/foods eatten in the classroom with nuts in them. At the meeting of the room moms, a parent was asking about cross contaimination and the mom of one of the nut allergic kids starts carrying on about how homemade treats were horrible because they exclude kids who have allergies but the little ice cream cups are great and I said, “No, they aren’t, in Kindergarden, none of the kids have food allergies but at least 2 are lactose intolerant and ice cream would make THEM sick. At some point you have to work with the kids that are in your child’s class because EVERY thing can cause an allergic reaction and there are sensitivies to nearly every food.” I don’t think she wanted to hear that….

Several years ago in my hometown, a class of kindergarteners ended up with E.Coli from home baked treats. The entire city district banned them after that. Don’t know if any of the parents sued to guilty parent, but after that it was pre-made bakery items only for any school party.

When my son was young, the school tried to ban peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, because some kids have a severe allergy to peanuts. I asked the teacher if anyone had such an allergy at the school; she said no, it was “just in case”. I told her to let me know when it was a fact, and not an assumption. My boy would eat ONLY PB&J sandwiches for lunch. I told her to keep the allergic kid (when they got one) away from all the other kids who liked PB&J. It’s cheap, easy, and what he LIKES!

Over a quarter week ago, I had one of the most eye-opening experiences of my life while reading a comment thread on GoComics about corporal punishment in the schools. A representative of an association of progressive thinkers testified in favor of his comments being excepted from logic because the rule of PC commanded him to beat his opinion into everyone else. “Spare the rod and spoil the child,” he quoted, and then acted like it was his Liberal duty to correct everyone, and he didn’t say anything about the public at large deserving it; he commanded everyone believe him on general principles, just because. Sent chills down my spine. People like that are still out there today, still 100% convinced that they are right.

Are rule like that still in existence? It should be obvious how stupid they are.