Are schools overstepping their jurisdictions? I know children can be picky eaters. I used to be as well. So this is rather concerning.
Excerpt: Across the cup of Pringles, it read: “Please help us make healthy choices at school.”
The mum was left outraged by the comment and slammed the teachers for ‘snack-shaming’ her son.
Source: https://igvofficial.com/tiktok-pringle-gate-mum-pulls-child-school-over-lunchbox-note/
Outrage bait over literally fucking nothing as usual. Just a parent getting uppity that someone else judged their parenting, then social media and media blowing it up with a combination of narcissism and anything negative about teachers/education is signal boosted due to being in the political crosshairs lately. The kid is 3, they don’t give a shit about the teacher writing on their snack and will have forgotten about it in like 2 days.
Clear overstep. What a parent gives their child to take to school to eat is their business. If the child is eating school lunches then that’s another thing. Teacher has definitely gotten a big head about shaming people’s dietary choices.
True. That’s my initial thought too. And the passive aggressive note leaves a bitter taste, too. Children naturally like treats and withholding them might create eating disorders too.
You clearly have a lot of faith in humanity if you think parents are always able to feed their kids properly. Heck, a lot of them don’t even eat actually healthy stuff themselves.
A teacher sending a message like this is trying to help, not to “snack shame”, and reactions like this will lead to even more teachers who don’t care anymore and do the bare minimum.
That’s a steep price for being “hurt by snack shaming” (whatever the fuck that even is).
I don’t think parents always make smart decisions, I think that parents who have the means to send their children to school with lunches should be able to make their own decisions. Sometimes parents can’t afford “healthier” options and just send their child with what they have which should also be fine, considering paying for school lunches can be more expensive than buying bulk sandwich and chips
Notes on children’s items is not the method of communication a teacher should be using. As a parent with kids in elementary school, there are 1on1 checkins, assemblies, notifications, community leaders, and more other methods the teacher could have used to discuss this with the parent.
There was zero reason to start labeling the kids lunchbox.
Food impacts behaviour of children. Their behaviour will impact on others in class.
Parents happily ship their kids off to school, and expect teachers to deal with their shitly raised kids, pumped full of crap food and having poor behaviour impact on others. Entitled parents then removed about how it’s their rights to to do a bad job of raising their
propertychildren.but also added a cup of Pringles as she didn’t consider it to be ‘unhealthy’.
This is for a 3 year old! How stupid is she? This kid is really going to benefit from home schooling, yet another future problem for society to pick up the pieces up.
Context is important here. Considering the rest of the kids lunch was pretty reasonable the teacher absolutely ovestepped.
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If they were just having donuts or something for lunch - and especially if it was causing behavioral problems with that kid or otherwise disturbing class - then sure. But Pringles? Assuming those were a side and not the entire lunch, especially, but even so…
But this seems like overreach, albeit well-intentioned
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I get it. Some parents don’t want their kids even seeing other kids eat “unhealthy” snacks. But there isn’t a clear consensus on what’s healthy and what’s not.
Is this website legitimate? The links seem circular?
The “help “x” make healthy choices” slogan has always been a painfully patronizing rationalization.
You take away a choice, you make the choice for them. Don’t act like they agree with you because you took away their ability to disagree.
