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Rules circumvented to save Christmas tradition

Dec 13, 2003 2:00AM PST

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Re:Rules circumvented to save Christmas tradition
Dec 13, 2003 2:41AM PST

Reading the story sure brought some grins, DaveK! The respponses by the kids were priceless!

Kudos to the teacher for coming up with a clever way to continue the tradition!

Angeline
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Oh how absurd!
Dec 13, 2003 3:14AM PST

Good on the teach for finding a way to do this anyway! Gee, even my mom who was a real chintz when it came to us kids having anything of non-nutritive value contributed time and supplies when we made gingerbread houses in elementary school! I even got to sample the glue HappyHappy

LOL, when I read the icing was OK because it was a milk product ... hee hee visions of ketchup ... hee hee

Anyway, when I was a kid there was a ton of junkfood making the regular rounds in the classroom. Brought from home, given as treats by the teacher, etc. Heck I remember getting ice cream as a prize for winning a basketball shoot competition. Seems to me that the obesity problem with kids these days stems much more from inactivity than from food intake. We used to walk to school (although I'm young enough that it wasn't like in my "parent's day" uphill 10 miles each day), run around the playground playing tag and all sorts of games, ride our bikes or play outside until dragged inside for dinner, etc. Sorry, surfing the web doesn't count!

Evie Happy

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NT And we had gym classes!
Dec 13, 2003 6:17AM PST

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The nutrition police gone amok!
Dec 13, 2003 3:14AM PST

I don't think the schools should be actively promoting consumption of junk food, but the very idea that the school has a forbidden candy list is offensive. Don't the parents have the right to ruin their child's nutrition in the manner of their own choosing? (w/ apologies to Eric Frank Russell's "Basic Right")

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Not to mention ...
Dec 13, 2003 3:22AM PST

... that demonizing the food tends to make it more attractive to kids. Ask any dieter, nothing is more appealing than that which is forbidden on a diet!

Kids have been eating junk food for ages. Speaking for myself, I consumed a whole lot more of it in high school than I might otherwise have if my parents weren't so strict about nutrition. Once I was close to Burger King for lunch, had my own money, a school cafeteria, greater freedom and access to shopping places, I went pretty nutso for a while. Good thing I was an athlete or I would easily have packed on the pounds. I can see how this new food police attitude of labeling some foods as "bad" and actually banning them from schools could backfire.

Evie Happy

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(NT) Agreed.
Dec 13, 2003 3:34AM PST

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Re:Not to mention ... I think the piglets are taking wing again! (NT)
Dec 13, 2003 4:02AM PST

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Eric Frank Russell...
Dec 13, 2003 1:37PM PST

One of my favorite books was "Wasp". I found it in a second hand store in the 80s. Might have to go looking for the "Major Ingredients" anthology from 2000...

Thanks for bringing back a good memory. Have to see where I buried that book. The kids are starting to read SF now so my book collection is finally getting some use (besides me).

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I haven't read much of his stuff ...
Dec 13, 2003 9:16PM PST

It might be interesting to read through 'Basic Ingredients' or some of his other works.

I used to have an old anthology (I think it was a collection of Hugo winners) that included 'Basic Right'. I really liked the story, even though it is rather improbable.

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Whooeee!
Dec 13, 2003 4:00AM PST

They brought back gingerbread houses? I see they didn't get into talking about what Christmas is about, but at least they acknowledged it.

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Re: NT Ah common sense prevailed
Dec 13, 2003 7:02AM PST

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