Holy craptastic.

As the "Party Parent" of my daughter's 1st grade classroom, I'm in charge of putting together the holiday parties.

For our Halloween class party, we asked parents to send in mostly sugar-free stuff (veggies, popcorn, etc.) because we knew the kids would be loaded down with sugar that night.

But for Christmas parties? No way. I've invited s'mores, kettle corn, Rice Crispy treats, cookies, brownies, candy canes, etc. It's ONE DAY out of the whole school year.

Bring it, biatches.

Hey dickbag! There's a few times a year when you can relax a bit and leave "healthy eating" behind for an afternoon.

one of em should take in some xmas cookies shaped like little rifles with bows on them

/just for fun

I teach 7th grade English. We aren't even allowed to bring snacks as a reward anymore because someone might have a food allergy. We also apparently cannot celebrate holidays such as Halloween by posting ghosts on student lockers. The amount of complaints we received at my school for that one was ridiculous. Next week, however, I will be celebrating the upcoming "Winter" break by showing "The Outsiders". Guess who conveniently planned finishing that book for Tuesday?

TrixieDelite: Holy craptastic.

As the "Party Parent" of my daughter's 1st grade classroom, I'm in charge of putting together the holiday parties.

For our Halloween class party, we asked parents to send in mostly sugar-free stuff (veggies, popcorn, etc.) because we knew the kids would be loaded down with sugar that night.

But for Christmas parties? No way. I've invited s'mores, kettle corn, Rice Crispy treats, cookies, brownies, candy canes, etc. It's ONE DAY out of the whole school year.

Bring it, biatches.

P.S. We're also a peanut-free classroom. That hasn't been as big of a deal as I thought it would be.

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There's rules like that in our school district; no sodas, no sugary snacks, no chocolate, no peanut butter, no meat dishes, etc. No one at my son's school follows it much.


/taking icing covered X-mas cookies to son's party on Monday
//school district can...[shakes tiny fist]

I've never really understood the holidays in which people delibrately gorge themselves past the point of being full. I guess I'm more of a drinker and anything that slows the alcohol from getting to my brain just seems like a waste.

We ate sugary treats at school AND there were no big fatties. (1960's / 70's)

Having some sugary treats on a holiday is not what makes kids fats. It's having sugary treats every day, with or between almost every meal, and then sitting around playing video games or watching TV. Abstinence does not teach children how to make good choices; it generally leads to them going hog-wild once they are free of your dictatorial reign.

I really don't see a problem with this. We live in a society where obesity is a problem, teaching kids that they can celebrate with healthy snacks isn't going to hurt them. I'm sure they get enough junk food at home.

ReapTheChaos: I really don't see a problem with this. We live in a society where obesity is a problem, teaching kids that they can celebrate with healthy snacks isn't going to hurt them. I'm sure they get enough junk food at home.

They may well get enough junk at home. Or they may be like some families I know who are so uptight about what they feed their kids that if it's not part of the slow cooked raw locally-grown chemical free organic vegan menu, their kids aren't allowed to eat it.

Moderation is the key, as others have said. One party? One day out of the year? Fer cryin' out loud, let them eat cake and whatever else they want to. They'll work it off with their thumbs.

Glad I grew up before the world went completely batshiat and banned anything resembling fun for kids because of fearmongering and litigious parents...

"Superintendent Everett Olsen says the ban on holiday sweets has nothing to do with being politically correct, rather, his motive is simply promoting a healthy lifestyle."

A new religion in the making or the new boss same as the old boss?

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again

Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that's all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?


There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

Everything that used to be fun is now illegal.

But you can bring halal stuff for Ramadan celebrations though.

PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm: Glad I grew up before the world went completely batshiat and banned anything resembling fun for kids because of fearmongering and litigious parents...

Kids are F A T as fark. Seriously, they're FAT and way the fark out of shape.

They don't play outdoors for 4-8 hours like we genx-ers and earlier did.

They don't know jack shiat about anything, really. How many of the fat assed kids you see today have build anything? A fort? A ramp? ZERO.

Oh, woe are the children when a school says they should leave the fat pellets at home... I feel so badly, just like pleashamlet and yourmomloves..., two fat asses.

illannoyin: Everything that used to be fun is now illegal.

Nope, but don't let me get in the way of your complaint about a school system that told parents and kids to leave candy at home.

Candy is ok, certainly not "everything that used to be fun..." for me anyway.

Doink_Boink: Kids are F A T as fark. Seriously, they're FAT and way the fark out of shape.

They don't play outdoors for 4-8 hours like we genx-ers and earlier did.

They don't know jack shiat about anything, really. How many of the fat assed kids you see today have build anything? A fort? A ramp? ZERO.

Oh, woe are the children when a school says they should leave the fat pellets at home... I feel so badly, just like pleashamlet and yourmomloves..., two fat asses.

Pretty sure you're a troll, but I'll bite.

I run five miles several days a week and at least three the rest. How about you, Scotty?

PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm: Doink_Boink: Kids are F A T as fark. Seriously, they're FAT and way the fark out of shape.

They don't play outdoors for 4-8 hours like we genx-ers and earlier did.

They don't know jack shiat about anything, really. How many of the fat assed kids you see today have build anything? A fort? A ramp? ZERO.

Oh, woe are the children when a school says they should leave the fat pellets at home... I feel so badly, just like pleashamlet and yourmomloves..., two fat asses.

Pretty sure you're a troll, but I'll bite.

I run five miles several days a week and at least three the rest. How about you, Scotty?

Does someone need to be at the gym in 26 minutes??

I keep hearing how all our yunginz are fat, they keep showing fat kids on the news and talking about the epidemic but when I pick up the kids at school I look around and see no fat kids. We have children come for field trips where I work once a month, hardly ever see a fat kid.

I know they think they can train our children not to grow up to be fat but that's not going to work, parents may be able to do it but not the teachers I don't think, even kids who respect their teachers aren't going to be influenced enough by them to let them pattern a lifetime of eating habits.

Danger Avoid Death: PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm: Doink_Boink: Kids are F A T as fark. Seriously, they're FAT and way the fark out of shape.

They don't play outdoors for 4-8 hours like we genx-ers and earlier did.

They don't know jack shiat about anything, really. How many of the fat assed kids you see today have build anything? A fort? A ramp? ZERO.

Oh, woe are the children when a school says they should leave the fat pellets at home... I feel so badly, just like pleashamlet and yourmomloves..., two fat asses.

Pretty sure you're a troll, but I'll bite.

I run five miles several days a week and at least three the rest. How about you, Scotty?

Does someone need to be at the gym in 26 minutes??

Nope, not tonight.

I shall marvel at your excitingly original repartee as I hit the treadmill tomorrow, though. Maybe I'll dedicate 26 minutes of it to you. Sound good?

PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm: Danger Avoid Death: PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm: Doink_Boink: Kids are F A T as fark. Seriously, they're FAT and way the fark out of shape.

They don't play outdoors for 4-8 hours like we genx-ers and earlier did.

They don't know jack shiat about anything, really. How many of the fat assed kids you see today have build anything? A fort? A ramp? ZERO.

Oh, woe are the children when a school says they should leave the fat pellets at home... I feel so badly, just like pleashamlet and yourmomloves..., two fat asses.

Pretty sure you're a troll, but I'll bite.

I run five miles several days a week and at least three the rest. How about you, Scotty?

Does someone need to be at the gym in 26 minutes??

Nope, not tonight.

I shall marvel at your excitingly original repartee as I hit the treadmill tomorrow, though. Maybe I'll dedicate 26 minutes of it to you. Sound good?

Yeah. Been away from Fark for a while. I'm a little rusty.

Danger Avoid Death: Yeah. Been away from Fark for a while. I'm a little rusty.



Welcome back.

Altitude5280: We ate sugary treats at school AND there were no big fatties. (1960's / 70's)

Back then people stepped outside and interacted with life and the world. Today people spend 9-12 hours a day playing with electronic gadgets while downing liquid candy

david_gaithersburg: Altitude5280: We ate sugary treats at school AND there were no big fatties. (1960's / 70's)

Back then people stepped outside and interacted with life and the world. Today people spend 9-12 hours a day playing with electronic gadgets while downing liquid candy

Or, as I call it, Fark and twelve-pack of Sammy's.

NACHOS RULE!!!
I love to eat snackies and play World of Warcraft and read liberry books and have a hell of a good time.
All you farkleheads can run like hamsters on a treadmill. I'll scoff little powdered donuts and watch.
GOOODDDD, yummy!
Seriously, I don't care how fat the little urchin humans get.
Triple chinned prom queen, cool!

So reading the comments underneath the article, I'm getting this conclusion:

"This is all because the War on Christmas that the Fascist in Chief is waging against decent Americans, and also, Hitler was a vegetarian, so if we don't have our kids stuff their faces with sugar and butter they'll try to annex Sudetenland."

TrixieDelite: Holy craptastic.

As the "Party Parent" of my daughter's 1st grade classroom, I'm in charge of putting together the holiday parties...
...But for Christmas parties? No way. I've invited s'mores, kettle corn, Rice Crispy treats, cookies, brownies, candy canes, etc. It's ONE DAY out of the whole school year.

Schools are zero-tolerance zones.
This includes Christmas the winter holiday.

TrixieDelite: ReapTheChaos: I really don't see a problem with this. We live in a society where obesity is a problem, teaching kids that they can celebrate with healthy snacks isn't going to hurt them. I'm sure they get enough junk food at home.

They may well get enough junk at home. Or they may be like some families I know who are so uptight about what they feed their kids that if it's not part of the slow cooked raw locally-grown chemical free organic vegan menu, their kids aren't allowed to eat it.

Moderation is the key, as others have said. One party? One day out of the year? Fer cryin' out loud, let them eat cake and whatever else they want to. They'll work it off with their thumbs.

I'm sure they get enough junk food at home. That line pretty much summed it up for me. People in this thread say it should be ok for kids to gorge at school one day per year but, seriously, they are probably gorging at home for a week. Why make school part of the obesity and problem too? Oh, and if kids aren't allowed junk food at home, how is it the school/govt's place to subvert those values?

I feel sorry for all the people here who genuinely believe that eating is the source of your psychological well-being and joy. There is more to life than food.

/off to hike a mountain this morning

FROGSTOMPER: I keep hearing how all our yunginz are fat, they keep showing fat kids on the news and talking about the epidemic but when I pick up the kids at school I look around and see no fat kids. We have children come for field trips where I work once a month, hardly ever see a fat kid.

I know they think they can train our children not to grow up to be fat but that's not going to work, parents may be able to do it but not the teachers I don't think, even kids who respect their teachers aren't going to be influenced enough by them to let them pattern a lifetime of eating habits.

Indeedy. Yesterday at my son's xmas party, to which he brought popcorn, he was forbidden to participate because he refused to eat any fruit salad. He's been forced to eat raw fruit at school a couple other times in K, 1st grade & 2nd grade. He always gags and horks it up, because he hates the texture. But dammit they keep trying to get him to eat it. He eats a good varied diet of every other thing in the world, but he won't eat fruit so they shut him out of the party. I was so pissed when he told me. He'll eat it when he's older and the texture doesn't make him gag and no amount of punishing him now will make him magically love to eat raw fruit.

gadian: elysive: say it should be ok for kids to gorge at school

Yes, a piece of cake or some cookies at the end of one day is gorging. GORGING!! Quit being hyperbolic. You're not helping the situation when you fly into OMG HATE ALL SNACKS rage.

I would also say that if kids aren't allowed junk at home then they should decline it at school if offered. If they don't decline it, then obviously the parents aren't doing things correctly...like forbidding all junk food all the time. Teach the kids moderation instead of forbidding. It works better.

Not gorge on sweets? Turn down food that is forbidden at home? Have you ever interacted with any kids? Forget that...were you ever a kid?

And no, I don't think that eating junk food at schools once a year is what causes childhood obesity, but how can you possibly argue against healthy snacks in school? Just keep sabotaging everyone while they are trying to form healthy habits...