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Published on February 6, 2007 By lifehappens In Blogging
My son brought home a note from school yesterday.

Dear parent or guardian,

We will be studying Valentines' Day Celebrations from around the world.......Our class will end this unit of study with a Valentine's Celebration on Friday February 16th. If you would like to donate store bought, sugar-free food or drinks for the celebration, please sign up on the sheet outside the classroom door.
The students are welcome to exchange Valentine's Day Cards with their friends. However, due to privacy policies, I will be unable to include a class list. Therefore, just have your child sign their name and leave the rest blank.
If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me....Thank you.

WHAT?!?!?!! I think that this is ridiculous. I have looked forward to being the "class mom" for years. I planned on bringing homemade cupcakes for birthdays and helping out at class parties. Now there are no parties (notice the conspicuous absence of the word?Christmas was the same way, but I figured it was cause they were avoiding the "C" word) and we have to bring STORE BOUGHT, not homemade items.....and they prefer to have sugar free.

WHERE IS THE FUN IN THAT?!?! I can' t possibly imagine that throughout the 50's the kids were so horribly hyped up on sugar that the teachers couldn't control the class for a 30 minute party. The schools policy on bake sales at the high school level also dictate only store bought items......The next 12 years are going to really suck.

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on Feb 09, 2007
maybe we can all move to Hawaii and put our kids in school with Tex.


I can't get stationed out there until I get promoted, and then I wouldn't be able to bring my boys, anyway.
on Feb 09, 2007
uh..Zoo? Which college was that promoting free thinking?


Mine seems to be...they don't force anything besides respecting others.

It's Miami University by the way...which is really heavy on liberal education.

~Zoo
on Feb 09, 2007
The fact of the matter is that we're just much more diverse than we were even ten years ago and kids are much more sensitive to things than they were ten years ago as well.


I've got a kid in 5th grade, and I have yet to see the kids being more "sensitive" to these kinds of things. Matter of fact, what I hear from my kid and her "culturally diverse" friend (her and her mom are from Cuba) are how ridiculous the school system policies are. As of yet, we've not had to bring store bought food, but the C word has most certainly been excluded. Hrmmm.. but somehow all the children were taught the signifigance of the dreidel.. hrmmm...
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