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Parents’ email chain.
You wouldn’t understand.
It’s an “affluent area” thing. 😉
what is a
Parents’ email chain.
Probably something like a whats app thingy for the oldies 🙂 Why does having kids ratchet them up to 11?
what is a
Parents’ email chain.
You wouldn’t understand.
It’s an “affluent area” thing
LOL!
A couple of parents are "class reps" and send emails round if there are events on, or someone's lost their uniform, that sort of thing. Probably totally not GDPR compliant....
mikewsmithWhy does having kids ratchet them up to 11?
If you don't have kids, why are you lurking on a thread about parenting?
*points* Stranger, stranger, stranger!
what is a
Parents’ email chain.
You wouldn’t understand.
It’s an “affluent area” thing
Is this how they share bank statements, as proof of entry requirement's?
If you don’t have kids, why are you lurking on a thread about parenting?
To remind my why contraception is a good idea,
Is it a hormone thing for you lot? The kids will probably have forgotten about it all by tomorrow or you have just created a massive therapy bill for the future
You can tell by the number of "ahem" leased bmw, mercs and audis waiting at the school gates
Jesus wept, threads like this make me glad i dont have children....seemingly schools are now run by SJWs who police the sugar intake of kids on their burthday FFS...get lost and find something real to be concerned about...then the group who believe in no treats on a birthday in case some parents cant afford to supply treats on their spwan’s birthday...yeah that’ll prep ‘em for the outside world, make them think we all have the same stuff (hint: we dont, the world is full of haves and have nots)...then the parent/police who espouse their way of parenting and sneer at anyone doing it differently...if Mrs Dev and me reproduce i’d honestly consider home schooling so neither me nor our poor child had to interact with these joyless prats...home school and then a member of a different sports club for each night of the week seems about the only sensible way to avoid teachers who dictate what kids can and cant eat, parents who read the Guardian and Communists who want to enforce equality of outcome...its like a weird hellish nightmare.
No space to breathe, lack of capitalisation, resorting to calling Communist.
5/10 on the rant scale.
he he he.
Loving the irony of Deviant's rant about precious weirdos and SJWs and strage parenting and then his conclusion:
home parenting
LOL
It's highly possible that the school have decided to change (or decide to enforce) their policy on this kind of thing.
It's unfortunate that it's happened around the time when you have brought sweets in. Considering a typical 2 form entry primary school will have over 300 children (I don't know how big yours is) then it's likely that this is happening pretty much every day and so I wouldn't take it personally. You might have been the final person, but that seems more coincidence than anything. It's someone's birthday every b****y day in primary school and following a staff meeting it was probably decided that they were going to start actually enforcing a typical healthy eating policy.
However, big picture, it is extremely reasonable for the school to have such a policy in place. Parents are not universally happy for others to be providing food for their children to eat, often at the expense of their carefully produced pack lunch, especially if it's for sugary sweets.
My wife and I both teach in a primary school for what it's worth. This wouldn't be something that would be appropriate in our school.
I'll give you an example of something that actually happened this week that caused problems. One of the boy's sports teams did well in a competition and they are coached by one of the dads. Said dad promised the team could have KFC delivered to school as a treat for the 10 children involved. The head of year agreed, but crucially didn't ask the parents. We're not talking permission slips and endless paperwork - it would have been done by phone and we'd have done all the legwork - but it didn't happen...
Funnily enough....some parents weren't particularly happy that their freshly cut fruit pieces, organic milk, and quinoa remained in their lunchbox and their child had a belly full of Zinger Burger at the end of the day.
This isn't dissimilar, and whilst more minor, is possibly being repeated regularly.
We still have picnics, bake sales, and winter fairs with sugar practically dripping from them, where kids stuff their faces. The crucial part is we ask permission first....
Just to be clear, I don’t object to the policy, if that is the school’s policy then that’s absolutely fine. I haven’t found any published policy or anything however. If it is policy I understand completely (though I did check with the class teacher and he said it was fine). I was more irritated by the email.
Primary school supply teachers point of view here. Been in over 150 schools. None mind. A few ask if certain things are avoided if very serious allergies exist in a class. One kid I knew had a head that expanded into a round blob if eggs were touched. Avoid cakes that need cutting, especially cheap decorated things. Ditto home made unless the household reputation for hygiene is flawless AND a separate supply for the teacher is sent in. Haribo etc best shout . Ignore whingers. Most importantly allow a few spares plus doubles for teachers and TAs. Don,t be a mean git and send exactly the same amount as there are kids. Children who bring extra nice choccy for teachers get house points. If you don't agree send nothing. No one will notice.
Finally I can put my pudding to bed .
Percy panther owns the forum tonight, top form all across the chat forum, well done sir.
AND a separate supply for the teacher is sent in. Wine or Spirits etc best shout .
FIFY, especially after someone gave the little gits masses of sugar before class
In order to avoid any dietary/allergy issus why not send in a small gift instead? Sonething educational like a small pamphlet they can read. I understand that many mosques and churches are happy to provide children's reading material.
I understand that many mosques and churches are happy to provide children’s reading material.
Top trolling there!! Reward them with sugar for believing in sky fairies!!
Obvious troll is obvious...
I worked in a secondary school that let the kids go out into the small market town it was in at lunchtime. We went through a phase where the yr8s (12/13yr old) were batshit mental in the afternoons. Discovered the local Tesco Express was doing bogof on their 1lt bottles of own brand redbull and the kids were chugging 2 lts of redbull and a couple of those yard long tubes of colour sugar (what are they called?) for lunch. A room of 30 yr8 high on caffeine and sugar is not somewhere any sane adult would want to tread.
Obvious troll is obvious…
OP or Scotroutes 😉
Timing is all here. The aggrieved parent in question has failed to point this out until the end of the school year ergo they were quite happy to receive said confection since September last and only now, once their forgetfulness/tightarsery has been exposed have they lumbered in to action. Therefore they can go and get ****ed.
Please feel free to copy that into any response you need to send and say it's from me.
I was more irritated by the email.
So you should be, it's a terribly thought out email.
It should have said something similar to:
Dear parents
I'm sure many of you know that the school has previously taken a relaxed view to children bringing in confectionery to celebrate special occasions. However, it has been decided that in future the school will be adhering to the healthy eating policy and any food brought in must be in line with this. The policy can be found at XYZ.ac.uk/healthy.pdf.
We thank you for your co-operation with this matter.
Kind regards
Mrs Headteacher
Give them cauliflower next time.
Nah, get a bag of Brussels sprouts and dip them in chocolate then hand those out.
And scotroutes, you are coming across as a bit of a judgemental, sanctimonious arse.
We have this Class Dojo thing where we get emails pinged to us all ****in day to the extent that we begin to wonder whether there is time left for teaching.
Earlier this week we got the 'nanny state' email about how the school "had noticed" that some deviant parents had sent their tubby little bundles of glucose into school with "unhealthy snacks", which is against school policy.
The very next day, via the very same Dojo came the revelation that the school canteen would be offering Pizza Baps for breaktime the morning after and everybody should send in their mini blobs with 50p each to buy one!
Sounds to me that the biggest issue is around the parent group email facility, as alluded to by Hugo, who knows the score.
EDIT, father of 3, one in primary, one in secondary, one a lawyer. Primary parents are the most needy, understandably...
but my wife has forbade me
Are you some sort of man-child? You get irritated and annoyed over a pissy email about sweets, feel the need to start a thread about it and your wife treats you like a child.
Have a word with yourself and man up FFS.
You get irritated and annoyed over a pissy email about sweets,
Well done, you can read.
feel the need to start a thread about it and your wife treats you like a child.
Actually, it's called 'having a discussion' and she, quite reasonably, suggested that if I made an issue of it, it could reflect badly on our child. She is, of course, right in all things.
Does an independently assertive woman threaten you?
Have a word with yourself and man up FFS.
Clearly you have some masculinity issues that you're trying to over-compensate for. Do you take everything you read on the interest as the literal truth? Could you not see that the tone of the post was not entirely serious?
So, am I right to be irritated, or should I just shrug it off?
Get over it, your kid probably has by now
The bitter rage of sanctimonious bellends ‘disguised’ as ‘trollling’. What else were you expecting 😁?
True, should have known!
Otherwise known as living within your means and providing a stable, consistent family environment for your children. That used to be standard practice before the desire for fancy holidays and material possessions made it necessary for both parents to work. Maybe there’s a lesson to be learnt?
Nothing to do with the increase of housing costs? Oh no, all of a sudden people discovered holidays and spending money. Genius.
A couple of parents are “class reps” and send emails round if there are events on, or someone’s lost their uniform, that sort of thing.
Sounds like a special email folder is required for them
I’m actually quite liking the cauliflower idea.
Take it a step further, cauliflour cous cous.
All / most of the kids in our local school take in sweets for their birthdays.
Like you say, teeny Haribo, a lollipop or a chew or similar for the class.
The grumpy parent totally needs to get over themselves.
You live in STW? This sounds just like the kind of shit the joyless, po-faced middle class, free-range, vegan, organic, ethically sourced yoghurt knitters round there would pull
Corrected for you.
I'be avoided the school run and play dates and all that other associated shit just to avoid all those type of parents that are just do gooder interfering types. Kids seem to have done ok by it as well.
I’m not sure scotroutes is trolling here - just being a bit old-fashioned, which is forgivable given that he is from a previous generation to most of us here.
WTF @ OP, you must be a gigantic wallflower to take any offence at that email and have some over-inflated ego issues to think it was personally directed at you (I'm not even sure 'what' was directed at you, they're just relaying what happened to them not themselves judging parents of kids that bring sweets in).
Anyway kids high on haribo are probably a nightmare no primary school teacher is paid enough to have to deal with so maybe go with the school's wishes next time.
Anyway kids high on haribo are probably a nightmare no primary school teacher is paid enough to have to deal with so maybe go with the school’s wishes next time.
I believe he stated many times the teacher said it was OK.
Indeed - if there was a published policy or guidance, then fine, but (to date) there hasn’t been.
PS, I don’t think wallflower means what you think it means...
Published policy on bringing sweets in? Oh for the love of god!!!! Isn't having sweets a sworn privilege when at school?
However i suppose we have to protect the fat kids so let's have a blanket ban on everything fun!
I’m not sure scotroutes is trolling here – just being a bit old-fashioned, which is forgivable given that he is from a previous generation to most of us here.
That would explain it although difficult to excuse. Bit like the old racist nan.
I’m not sure scotroutes is trolling here – just being a bit old-fashioned, which is forgivable given that he is from a previous generation to most of us here.
1910?
Published policy on bringing sweets in
Unfortunately, due to children being sent into school with lunches consisting of leftover Macci D's from the night before or simply a large bag of Haribo and can of Monster (I kid you not - do you fancy teaching a 7 year old that's drunk a 1 pint can of that on the way to school?!), these things are essential.
Sounds more hard work than it is. It's simply a one pager produced by the school, and usually stuck online in .pdf format, that explains what and what isn't suitable for children to bring in for lunches. Salad yes, cans of Red Bull no. Treats for celebrations? Yes, but ask the parents first.
Most of the time schools turn a blind eye to kids bringing in a few sweets as a treat, but you need to have something in place for when it becomes too much or someone is abusing the system. It gives the power to the class teacher to say no when they want and pass responsibility to the school leaders to deal with such situations, as it should be leaving them free to teach.
Children should eat healthily at school, and in previous generations schools could ask nicely and parents would do it. Unfortunately now you have to write a policy to point to otherwise you can't enforce anything. It goes along with policies on bullying, behaviour, homework, etc. That's how school are run.
However i suppose we have to protect the fat kids so let’s have a blanket ban on everything fun!
No, sweets aren't banned in school, however if you want to feed them, or anything, to other peoples children you need to ask them in advance.
If you can imagine the issue it would cause if one kid were feeding another kid with militant vegan parents his leftover McNuggets each day then you get the idea.