Posted on 06/16/2009 11:18:51 AM PDT by reaganaut1
MeMe Roth, a publicist and an Upper West Side mother of two, is getting really, really mad — “and I do not mean angry,” she clarified. “I mean mad, like crazy.” Ms. Roth is being driven mad by Public School 9, where her children are in second and fourth grades, and it seems that P.S. 9, in turn, is being driven mad by Ms. Roth.
Ms. Roth, who runs a group called National Action Against Obesity, has no problem with the school lunches provided at the highly regarded elementary school on Columbus Avenue and 84th Street. What sets her off is the junk food served on special occasions: the cupcakes that come out for every birthday, the doughnuts her children were once given in gym, the sugary “Fun-Dip” packets that some parent provided the whole class on Valentine’s Day.
“I thought I was sending my kid to P.S. 9, not Chuck E. Cheese,” Ms. Roth, a trim, impassioned 40-year-old from Atlanta, said in an interview. “Is there or is there not an obesity and diabetes epidemic in this country?”
When offered any food at school other than the school lunch, Ms. Roth’s children — who shall go nameless since it seems they have enough on, or off, their plates — are instructed to deposit the item into a piece of Tupperware their mother calls a “junk food collector.”
This solution seemed to be working pretty well until Ms. Roth’s daughter dutifully tried to stick a juice pop — a special class treat from her teacher on a hot day — into her plastic container.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You said it perfectly.
This woman wants everything Just So for her kids, and that’s just fine. Pull ‘em out and homeschool (and home-feed) them, honey.
A self-centered woman named “MeMe” - do we have an Obama relative here?
Apparently, MeMe doesn’t know what a sack or lunch pail is used for.....
She is obsessed and should be institutionalized.
That being said, there is too much food being served in PSs.
Babies need snacks. Fourth graders do not. Treats? Cool. But to have kids this old bring in snacks everyday is silly.
Can you say anorexia, bulimia and binge eating?
I pity the kids.
Sounds like the type of gal who would make the kids eat wheat grass. I thought that dieticians were pretty up on things in the public schools. Maybe the meals themselves are ok but who knows what the kids are eating on their own?
She’s a publicist. And she is publicizing herself.
I would have posted sooner, but I had Cheeto dust on my fingers...
Seriously, she should be institutionalized and forced to deal with the deep-seated issues she's carried forward from her childhood.
Effin' nutjobs get taken way too seriously in this stupid world.
MeMe, the crazy publicist. The headlines just write themselves. If there ever was a case to homeschool...
Stark raving looney, in fact.
Normally, she’d be found “not guilty.” But in this case, I return a verdict of “guilty as hell by reason of insanity.”
}:-)4
Holy Cow... you don’t want your kids to have any, tell the school your kids aren’t allowed and then you can deal with them crying every time the rest of the class gets a treat and they are excluded.
What a nimrod.
People like this have stopped being funny long ago—they are a public menace! They have twisted society into so many knots because of their personal neuroses—and their ability to have their insanity codified into law. It is not just a nuisance, it threatens our society.
Perhaps it is time for local and State governments, and the courts, to have a rule that a single hot-head or kook cannot petition them unless joined by at least a few other people.
In the current state of things, government at all levels and the courts are packed with “frequent flyers”, who crave attention and control achieved through undemocratic means. If they cannot have it personally, they want to be able to point to some oppression and claim responsibility for it.
Their burn their mouth with hot coffee, so they want coffee outlawed.
A teacher gives their little princess a “C” instead of an “A++”, and they sue. They demand the speed limit on nearby roads be lowered to 5 mph. Children have access to food they like—which is intolerable.
They demand this, they demand that. What they need is to have a rag stuffed in their collective mouths. And to decide if their neurosis is for real, they should at least convince two other people to agree with them, before they are even allowed to complain.
There are 3 things that will survive the nuclear holocaust
Cockroaches
Twinkies
Cheetos
Eating one is the equivalent of eating any other one biologically.
LOL! I agree.
Yet ... she comes across in the article as a 100% loon.
Our public school has outlawed bringing goodies in for birthdays. I don’t mind, as it was getting a little ridiculous. With class sizes up to 35, that’s a lot of goodies, and it was Krispy Kreme Donuts, etc. (Of course, maybe I just wish they had saved some for me!)
Now, they have a couple treats at a class party a couple times a year, and they are supposed to take home any candy they might get in a Valentine card, or other holiday gift that kids bring for the other kids.
The kids weren’t obese before, except a very few, but this helps keep them healthy.
And I wouldn’t want to be the teacher of a class of sugar-amped kids.
There ae a lot of bad things at Public School that should be changed before we get around to lunch
I wanted to check out her site but you posted a link to this thread.
Not guilty.
Not guilty by reason of insanity.
No matter how hot she is ... some guy, somewhere, is tired of all the drama.
Try the one at post # 14.
She is raising a good point. Like her I’m disgusted with this countries child obesity problem. The girls especially are fat, in fact, height/weight proportional girls are in the minority.
I blame the sugar lobby. Taking sugar out of public schools is met with so much resistance. The treats in school are so overloaded with sugar and a diabetes pandemic is on the way unless we get serious about taking sugar out of schools. Kids will still be overloaded with sugar from outside of school but it’s important that it not be so available in school.
Tell the school that NO ONE in class may eat:
Cupcakes
Lollipops
Bubble Gum
M&Ms
Hershey Bars
Slim Jims
Cookies
Pizza
hamburgers
french fries
chicken nuggets
lasagna
meat chili
fried chicken
chicken wings
cake (even on your birthday)
or ice cream
or drink
soda
sweetened tea
shakes
And then tell them who made the school change this policy.
If you read carefully...you see that there is no Mr. Roth in her life...and there likely will never be such a guy.
I don’t have a problem with a mom who wants to force her own kids to live such a lifestyle...but once you cross the line...and try to force other kids or people...then you are simply burning bridges as fast as you cross them.
She has issues...and fight on for the rest of her life. Even her kids will come to move as far away from her as possible as they get married and have kids of their own. Can you imagine this gal coming to your house after you married her son or daughter?
And, there is also the food allergy concern.
Is that you, MeMe?
LOL
"Ms. Roth and her husband, Ben, say they were told by Helene Moffatt, a school safety official..."
No doubt, which may be why she’s a “Ms.” and not a “Mrs.”
While I am sitting here at my desk with sunflower seeds, peanuts, Oreo cookies, a bag of Doritos somewhere nearby, and other snacks I’ll disavow I still have to give cheers to what MeMe is trying.
We have twin 21 month old boys and as older parents, are very interested in their eating habits. They are years from school but I don’t want them getting at home, friends, or school a diet of junk food. Some yes, but in moderation. There is no need for schools to be serving a regular course of junk food.
You know, when I started reading the article, I was hoping she was complaining about the poor quality of the school lunch food. Now, that’d be great to see someone fix. Where can someone find a worse piece of pizza except in a school cafeteria. Or Mac and Cheese?!
I didn't read carefully enough to determine that ... but see my post #27.
;'}
Ever heard of homeschooling, Ms. Roth?
Ben, no David Lee ...
Nope, you don’t punish everyone for a single nut.. you let the nuts kids live by her rules.. Trust me, after a few months of her kids being “excluded” she’ll be singing a different song.
She’s trying to force others to endure her choices. Good or not, I disagree with her, VEHEMENTLY
Sometimes people with anorexia have an obsessive need to control not only their own eating, but that of their kids, their pets, their community, even the entire world.
We have a couple of these do goodniks here at work where I am the facility manager. Constantly complaining and mostly about what others are doing or not doing.
One wanted healthier snacks in the vending machine. I called the vendor and he said yeah she grabbed me one day and I have put everything we have that is “healthy.”
I told the person and she stated that she wanted fruit. At that point I lost it. A) the machine is not refridgerated b)the vending company only comes once a week and c) the machine drops items at a minimum of a foot or more to the access. I told her to bring her own fruit if she needed fruit so bad and pointed out to her that of the top twenty sellers in the machine, 16 were off the candy shelf and honey buns were the leading item.
Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite. MeMe appears to be a Mrs.Grundy type.
I got $20 that says Ben's as whipped as they come.
The reason for letting the class know and everyone living by the rules is her kids would really be excluded from things. Picked last in gym, not invited to birthday parties, etc.
She needs to address her cleavage problem too.
You think?
I bet she keeps his balls in the pantry between the rice cakes and the wheat germ.
Anyone else getting a “Mommie Dearest” vibe from MeMe?
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