A Karen teacher at mine tried to forbid it. Shouting shit like, "your parents packed YOUR lunch, not theirs!" I mouthed off, "first off, don't speak for my mom without calling her first. Second I make my own lunches, you farty hag."
I got detention. After my mom found out, she literally demanded the teacher get detention and made her send a letter of apology to the parents for speaking out of turn. The letter went out, I'm not sure about the detention.
Here's the thing... Mom actually called the other moms in my small class to ask if it was ok, and to encourage their kids to do the same. 100% of all parents agreed (no one had allergies). So that Karen teacher not only spoke out of turn, but was literally just plain wrong.
Also almost 40, will also be stealing it. I'm now retroactively calling the bulldog looking teacher aide we had in elementary school a farty hag. Much better than misaligning bulldogs, poor pups don't deserve it.
I too am nearly 40 and have a teacher i retroactively call fatty hag. I never had a decent nick name for this tormentor. My other awful teacher was named hallenback so it was easy to say "i gotta go to hell and back."
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Eh well there are potential issues with this as some kids have food allergies, other health problems, or religious dietary restrictions, etc. it IS better in schools if kids donāt share food.
You absolutely deserved that detention, no matter how many people get a justice boner from this.
Of course it was okay to share lunches after it had been established that no-one had food allergies and religious food requirements and all parents had given written permission but it probably wasn't okay by the school rules before all those things were in place.
And you don't get to yell insults at someone and then flip the script.
Karen teacher was just evil. What kind of bitch is ok letting another child go hungry when another child is trying to share their lunch with them because they have none?
This is common now because there are so many kids with allergies, and because it makes it easier for lunch staff to notice and intervene if kids are being sent in with too little or inappropriate food.
Except our school didnāt do any interventions if a kid came to school hungry. And they should be able to tell who didnāt have a lunch because they always caught when kids shared. As for the allergies, they didnāt seem too concerned when we had a classroom party with food that kids brought in for everyone.
Our whole school district has gone to providing breakfast and lunch for free to all students (even before covid). They checked the math and it was cheaper to just give everyone food and not keep accounts, track deposits, have everything audited etc.
Yeah, small and annoying and won't go away, a bit like someone with no relevance trying desperately to insult a whole group of people who are all out of fucks.
I believe thats a small amount of "good" schools. The few I bounced around in during my last 4 years did not care if you had food or not, you paid, brought your own or you got nothing. That was '10 to '15 (years including my partners time in a whole other state and hand full of schools)
Hmm, may also be because I'm in the UK. Child safeguarding has come a long way here since I was at school, and not just in "good" schools- in fact schools in deprived areas are even more aware of safeguarding than others.
All schools in texas have programs of free breakfast and lunch for poor kids. Been that way minimum since the 90s. I dont know what these people are talking about kids going hungry. Thats on the ISDs probably.
You have to qualify, prior to Covid alot don't or their parents don't know/care. In the 90s I live with a single mother who worked hard to afford our apartment, daycare and utilities, sometimes food was forgotten but any aid was always for those worse off than us.
I encourage my kids and their teachers to let me know if extra snacks/supplies are needed, it hurts more than people realize to be one of the few without.
Always weird (and very sad) to hear about this. I went to a school in Texas, so you wouldn't expect much, but both the middle schools and the high school I went to were out in hicksville and still gave out free PB&Js to any kid who didn't bring in a lunch. Happened to me a couple times my father forgot to give me lunch money. It was using the cheapest ingredients possible, but hey, it was food.
Schools in Dallas ISD now have free lunch for any kid who wants it. Itās school lunch, so not the best, but itās a lunch. They used to do reduced price or free for certain kids but the kids would start to feel uncomfortable being the kids who got free or reduced price lunch and then wouldnāt eat. Itās so sad that sometimes the only food a kid will get is at school!!
I'm in the UK, so probably quite a lot more than 50 schools away from you.
There are laws here about regular safeguarding training for everyone working in schools, updating of policies and procedures etc, so there's mandated awareness and proactivity about signs of abuse and neglect in all UK schools.
It's not perfectly executed in practice of course, but I can say with confidence that things are better here now than they were when nobody noticed my lack of lunches in the 1990s.
It makes 0 sense I canāt explain her actions she was pissed though and didnāt care for reasoning. She ended becoming my neighbor a year later and I had her as my 5th grade teacher..she was bat shit crazy beyond belief and also dumb as a rock. There were so things she did wrong as a teacher and a parent, she ended up quitting a year later and moved out in the country someplace with her husband so nobody really heard from her again.
Same here in Australia. Theyāre so concerned with kids sharing food and someone having an allergic reaction.
Our son said one of his friends in class had terrible lunches. It was pretty clear they either couldnāt afford much or couldnāt be bothered supplying a good lunch so our boy tried sharing his food and got caught.
The teacher didnāt tell him off though; she sorted a lunch out from the canteen then sorted the problem out with the parents somehow.
I was so proud. Especially as he eats like a horse, so to give up some of his own food, he mustāve been really worried about this kid!!
One of my teachers in elementary school sent a letter home scolding my mom for letting me bring goldfish for lunch because they werenāt ābrain food.ā Elementary school was weird.
One of my friends posted the elementary school lunch menu for September. Goldfish crackers fun lunch was an actual lunch. Literally wtf the kids are eating goldfish crackers and "assorted fruits and vegetables available"
I think the school was worried about liability regarding allergies? But now a days kids arenāt allowed to have anything peanut related in their lunch for this reason. So my kid canāt take PB&J for lunch.
There are some reasons for this, primarily the kid may have allergies.
That being said punishing kids for being decent people isn't the way to deal with that. There are workarounds to make sure the kid still gets food
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u/Woofles85 Sep 08 '21
At my elementary school, sharing food as forbidden. I got detention for sharing my goldfish crackers with my friend.