Posted on 08/18/2016 9:44:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
Let's say your tenth-grader forgets his lunch. So you receive a telephone call at work.
“Mom, I left my baloney sandwich on the kitchen counter,” he tells you. “Can you bring it to me, pretty please?”
So, what would you do? I’d be willing to bet a Moonpie that many parents would drop everything and rush to the school to personally deliver their little snowflake’s brown bag lunch.
But that sort of coddling is not allowed at Catholic High School for Boys in Little Rock, Arkansas. As a matter of fact – it’s outright banned.
Catholic High School prides itself on teaching reading, writing, arithmetic and problem-solving.
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Teaching kids responsibilities is what schools and parents should both do.
Actually, a 6th grader who is motivated can pack and remember her own lunch. I think she was in 6th or 7th grade when my daughter decided she could no longer eat red meat. I said, “Fine. but I’m not fixing 2 meals. If I’m fixing a meal with red meat, it’s up to you to figure out what you will eat.” She became quite a creative cook. A habit which continues, even though she started eating red meat again a few years later.
Ever hear the term “helicopter parent”? My suspicion is this school has an overabundance of them. Parents who believe the universe revolves around their precious snowflake. They spend inordinate amounts of time and energy protecting the offspring and making sure no bit of difficulty, stress, conflict, or concern touches their child. Heaven forbid the kid have to figure something out for himself or make do. I’ve dealt with some of them. Always fun when the kid is legally an adult and in college, yet mom is still hovering, trying to take care of everything. You should hear the hyperventilating when you tell mom you can’t discuss her kid with her because of FERPA. If the kid wants to discuss their schedule, their grades, their assignments, whatever, THEY have to call or come in. Federal law doesn’t allow us to hand out their personal information to just anybody, especially over the phone.
I had one mom call and demand that we “fix or replace” her 21 year old son’s laptop that he had purchased from the bookstore at Dartmouth College and now wasn’t working. He needed to print out an assignment that was due RIGHT NOW, and she was panicked. In her world, because Dartmouth is a college, and we’re a college, and her son was at different times a student at both, we should fix or replace his laptop for free. When I asked why I was talking to her and not him, her answer was that he had stayed up really late working on the assignment and needed his sleep.
[LOL, so you’re admitting you are part of the problem.]
No, I just think this is another example of schools over-exerting their decisions and rules over those of the parent. There will be one off situations where a child might forget a book or their lunch. in such an instance, I don’t believe a school should issue a blanket-statement rule forbidding parents to fix a one-time oversight. If it becomes a recurring problem, then the school can address it more forcefully with the parent or child.
Yes, I do agree that high schools can get away with instituting the rule, than an elementary or middle school should.
I agree. I have observed with my own children in my experience as a Cub Scout leader that we do too much for our children. This teaches them that they are not responsible: someone else will always come along to make things right.
I remember a FRiend posting that his son’s cellphone had been run through the wash, “but his mother should have checked his pockets for him.” *facepalm*
The “Vintage Rule” I grew up under, was first enforced (oucch)on me when I was in First Grade.
Your child has very few responsibilities in the morning.
Get up. Clean up. Get dressed. Eat. Take things with him he needs to when he goes to school.
How hard is that?
If this kid can’t manage to do that, why kind of an employee will he be? What’s he going to be like in college? Who will change his diapers then?
Oh! Look! They're not wearing their pants below their rear-ends!
I’m guessing, of course!
How can you tell? ;)
He should do what I did when I forgot MY lunch - either buy one or mooch off my friends for the day, or -horrors! - go hungry for a day.
He'll survive.
Just a wild guess!
Ya think!
It’s just hard for me to want to read anything from the website when the editor is so confused about very basic ideas.
Who says they have to miss a meal unless you are some kind of pariah you’re friends will share with you.
That’s true too.
Shoot, I was packing my own lunches in 5th grade, after they served something disgusting too many times in a row. It doesn’t take skill to fix a sandwich and put it in a bag with a juice bottle.
I don’t think it’s the school’s damn business if a parent wants to drop off a forgotten item.
Than the parents should teach their monsters to take some responsibilities
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