Posted on 06/04/2004 3:19:50 PM PDT by Living Free in NH
Birthday kids at Duxbury's Chandler School next fall will get dragon stickers, special seat covers and starred birthday sashes they can wear all day.
But no cupcakes - they're bad for you.
The tradition of cupcakes at school birthday parties died last month when the School Committee unanimously ratified a new handbook that redefines the way students celebrate in class.
``I'm a little saddened,'' said Chandler parent Nancy Krahmer, who favors healthy eating but mourns the loss of the childhood ritual.
School officials made the change, part of a district-wide move to improve student health, after a poll of parents found nutrition to be one of their top concerns, Chandler School Council member Ann Kalous said.
Frequent classmate parties once had students consuming numerous unplanned cupcakes each school year.
``It would be 23 times during the year that other families would not be anticipating that their kids are going to be eating something sweet,'' Chandler Principal Deborah Zetterberg said.
The new system will substitute copious special attention for frosted goodies, Zetterberg said. In addition to the sash, seat cover and dragon sticker, each birthday kid will get a birthday pencil.
Damn! I swear I searched on all words in the subject. How do I get this thread whacked?
Rush mentioned this late in his show today....noted how you could vacuum a child from the womb at any time, but once the kid is born, and in this school, they can't have cupcakes on their birthday.
``It would be 23 times during the year that other families would not be anticipating that their kids are going to be eating something sweet,'' Chandler Principal Deborah Zetterberg said.
Heavens me! Perish the thought
Who are these moron parents who feed their kids such a fragile diet that eating an extra cupcake once every two weeks would blow it all to hell?
Also makes you wonder why those parents can't just tell their kids "don't eat the cupcake". Or, tell the teacher, "don't let my kid have a cupcake".
Was the school force-feeding the cupcakes to the kids, previously?
Hit the abuse button and ask the admin to yank it...
Thus, the March on Fattening Foods continues. Or would that be a "Putsch"?
This makes as much sense as the Catholic Church stance on artificial birth control.
"Idiots in Massachusetts. Anyone suprised?"
Not in the least...
How long before the Publisk Skools close, because they have NO STUDENTS?
Thank heavens (and God Almighty, now that I think of it) my daughter is graduating HS in about 2 1/2 weeks. We managed to dodge the current insanity, thanks to the Salvation Army, Catholic Schools, and a fine Public School system. Many others are not, and will not be, so lucky!
I bet the faculty lounge is full of indulgences for the middle aged chocholics (like me) who work there.
I lived in a small town in western Massachusetts from 1986 to 1994. Our local preschool outlawed cupcakes, candy, everything but tofu, I swear. Eventually you couldnt do birthdays at all..since what about the kids whose birthdays were in the *summer* (gasp!!) We couldnt do Valentines Day (a Christian holiday, you know), Christmas, nothing. Not much we could do..it was the only game in town; the director was a socialist. It was a good lesson for my kids even when they were small that some people and rules are just lame.
I couldnt WAIT to move. The PC-ness was overpowering. And funny..most of them were trust funders, white, democrats, bigots, and snobs. My town voted for Jesse Jackson in the 88 primary. These same people locked their doors in horror and clustered in nervous groups when the Jamaican farm workers came in the fall to help with the apple harvest. I think there were four of us Republicans..we had a secret handshake and met in the dark of night >;-> Whew!
Tony Lake lived in the next town over and his wife was the biggest bigot I had ever known. She oozed noblesse oblige and was a classic limosuine liberal. Bleah!
Do they go to Planned Cupcakehood to get their unplanned cupcakes "taken care of?"
No artificial birth control means that there will be more kids going without cupcakes?
Well, when you have to rely on the "rhythm method", there will be more kids, and they won't get cupcakes. So, yes, it does seem to work that way.
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