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[Road Guy]

when our kids were in elementary school they had this gig where you had to bring in a snack every day for your kid, usually it was something the parents provided and sent in with their kids other times the "room bitch, I mean mom" would schedule where you took a turn bringing in something for the whole class, total pain the ass.. again just add $200 to my property taxes and take care of that shit yourself if you feel they need it..

my god I don't miss elementary school ( as a parent)

 

[Supe]

geeze....just got another school "supply" requirement yesterday. They each have to provide class snacks for two weeks, the teacher gave out a schedule assignment. something nutritional and store bought.

You're not even allowed to bring in shared food here because of allergy bullshit.

 

[snickerd3]

& I hated that bring snack shit during elementary school, just raise my taxes .00001 mil and buy god damned snacks for the whole F'n school and don't make me waste my time with that shit- or find some bored stay at home mommie to run it and collect $ from the parents..

I don't ever remember "snack time" in school unless it was someones birthday (until about 2nd or 3rd grade) or in like 4th and 5th on Friday's we would have popcorn as a reward.

this is what i remember too. but i think it is a combination of all the new age studies that show hungry kids equal lower attention span and the new school lunch guidelines don't allow the school to feed the kids enough at lunch and since most kids are on free/reduced $ lunch, they have to supplement with a snack somehow.

 

[snickerd3]

another cost i forgot was the Snack milk fee....have not clue how much that is going to cost. the notes all talk about it but don't actually tell you how much or how you are pay it, check to teacher, online etc.

at registration i couldn't get a straight answer for how to deal with hot lunches for minisnick since we dont qualify for free or reduced lunch. There are going to some days where he is going to want hot lunch, but I'm not going to send cash with a 5 yr old to school. the district website is dead at the moment too. not that their "revised" page was helpful before.

 

[knight1fox3]

^ sounds like a govt. sponsored program.

 

[engineergurl]

another cost i forgot was the Snack milk fee....have not clue how much that is going to cost. the notes all talk about it but don't actually tell you how much or how you are pay it, check to teacher, online etc.

at registration i couldn't get a straight answer for how to deal with hot lunches for minisnick since we dont qualify for free or reduced lunch. There are going to some days where he is going to want hot lunch, but I'm not going to send cash with a 5 yr old to school. the district website is dead at the moment too. not that their "revised" page was helpful before.

why not?

 

[snickerd3]

because he will misplace it at daycare before going to school. he likes to oogle money for some reason.

 

[YMZ PE]

That shared snack thing is BS. Everyone should provide snacks for their own kid and donate an emergency supply in case a parent forgets to pack one for their kid.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Found out today that the lunch-period for my kids has been reduced to 15 minutes. The cafeteria can't even get everyone their food in that much time, i have no idea how the kids are supposed to eat it too.

 

[snickerd3]

Found out today that the lunch-period for my kids has been reduced to 15 minutes. The cafeteria can't even get everyone their food in that much time, i have no idea how the kids are supposed to eat it too.

this is one thing i worry about if we do hot lunches...minisnick is a slow eater. he didn't finish the last quarter of his sandwich yesterday before the lunchroom people were kicking him out to go back to class.

 

[csb]

Found out today that the lunch-period for my kids has been reduced to 15 minutes. The cafeteria can't even get everyone their food in that much time, i have no idea how the kids are supposed to eat it too.

Junior high lunch for us was 20 minutes. If you didn't sprint to be first in line, you flat didn't get to eat your lunch.

Our district sporadically provides snack. Another mom and I were talking about how we've had to tell our boys that we somehow survived being fed less than 8 times a day.

 

[Road Guy]

In basic training they used to run our entire company through the chow hall in less than 15 minutes. There was a phrase or drill sergeants would say "you don't have time to taste it, just eat it

I use that phrase a lot with my kids, it's affective., ....

 

[Ramnares P.E.]

Chew and screw were music to your ears in the mess hall.

 

[Lumber Jim]

Found out today that the lunch-period for my kids has been reduced to 15 minutes. The cafeteria can't even get everyone their food in that much time, i have no idea how the kids are supposed to eat it too.

this is one thing i worry about if we do hot lunches...minisnick is a slow eater. he didn't finish the last quarter of his sandwich yesterday before the lunchroom people were kicking him out to go back to class.

Our oldest was like this, still sort of is. To make matters worse she is very social. there have been times when she has come home and told us that the cafeteria aid took her tray and she hadn't eaten anything yet. I think she is a little more focused now that she is going into 2nd grade.

Oldest boy starts kindergarten soon. Him, I'm not to worried about. His food barely touches the plate when it's something he likes. (i think he got that trait from me... )

 

[akwooly]

The school my daugther goes to has snack. Only Kindergarten does shared snack, which wasn't bad we only had to provide snack once a month and on your kids snack day it was also their share day(show-n-tell). What i didn't like was when we would put thought into the snack(making it fun and nutritious) we would even protion them out, but then other parents would just drop off a big box of gold fish.

 

[csb]

akwooly and YMZ should swap Pinterest user handles.

 

[csb]

Last night there was a giant bin for kleenex, so I dropped them in. I then started looking for where the bins for the other supplies were located and, get this, THEY PUT THEIR OWN SUPPLIES IN THEIR OWN DESKS!

I nearly passed out.

In their desks, they also had a planner. I near passed out from excitement.

 

[snickerd3]

The school my daugther goes to has snack. Only Kindergarten does shared snack, which wasn't bad we only had to provide snack once a month and on your kids snack day it was also their share day(show-n-tell). What i didn't like was when we would put thought into the snack(making it fun and nutritious) we would even protion them out, but then other parents would just drop off a big box of gold fish.

the note home said not to put a lot of effort...a box of crackers would be okay too.

a bag of pretzels is going to be one of the days.

 

[engineergurl]

Last night there was a giant bin for kleenex, so I dropped them in. I then started looking for where the bins for the other supplies were located and, get this, THEY PUT THEIR OWN SUPPLIES IN THEIR OWN DESKS!

I nearly passed out.

In their desks, they also had a planner. I near passed out from excitement.

this makes sense and how it was when I was a kid, a box of tissues to share but the rest was your own stuff

 

[csb]

There was no mention of snack. This morning the teacher came in with a shitload of goldfish. Is it possible we're free and clear?