Posted on 02/22/2014 11:01:40 AM PST by KneelBeforeZod
POMONA, Calif. —
A teacher in Southern California has been placed on administrative leave after being accused of forcing a student to eat food from a trash can.
The incident was reported on Wednesday at Alcott Elementary School in Pomona. 10-year-old Gilbert Lopez said after he threw his lunch away, his teacher asked him to pull his sandwich out of the garbage and finish eating it.
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Did they tell you about the poor starving children in Pakistan
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It was China in my day and the sure road to a swat was
“Fine, send it to them” or some other wisenheimer crack..
The real bad boys in our grade school would say to the Dominican nuns “Yes ‘ster!” when they were being reprimanded.
That would be highly immoral and wreckless endangerment
If they did I'm sure they did NOT pronounce it "POCK-EEE-stun."
Have you ever been in charge of a classroom?
My Dad grew up during The Depression. When I was 17, I wrecked his car. He only cared if I was OK, and handled it in a very even handed, calm, manner. A few months later, I didn’t feel like finishing my glass of milk, and poured the remainder, down the drain. He absolutely flipped out, about wasting good milk. Ironic, by today’s standards.
Sadly enough, some of the Dominican nuns did pronounce it that way.
forcing them to eat trash or something is not something teachers are allowed to do. I guess I assume teachers are actually trained properly.
Even at 10, my stubbornness would have kicked in. My parents would have had to get me from the principal before I would have eaten trash.
If the kid doesn’t want to eat the sandwich, who cares?
Sheesh, in the other school they made the kids throw the food away because there were no funds in their lunch money accounts to pay for it, remember that story?
I hate all this agonizing over food, it can really create mental problems and it invariably ruins the meal for everyone else.
Joe knew he was wrong and didn't complain because he knew he pushed the teacher over the line.
“I hate all this agonizing over food,....”
Throughout most of time, food needed to be agonized over. Periodic famines were the norm, nearly everywhere. Children needed to learn to treat food with respect.
Now, we use food to fuel our automobiles; so I agree with you. What’s a sandwich in the garbage, compared to whole corn crops in the fuel tank?
This happened to me in the 5th grade when I had stomped on my bologna sandwich because a guy I was used to trading with said no for once...The school principal saw it all and made me pick it up off the floor (it had my shoe prints on it and I had mustard on the bottom of my stompin’ shoe), marched me into the office where he sat me down and told the secretary, a young miniskirt, go-go boot wearing, Corvette-driving Armenian hottie, to make sure I ate it all. God, was I embarrassed!
As it turned out, the lesson had been learned and from then on I really appreciated what was in that brown paper bag mom gave me every day before school.
You are right, of course, that only very very recently have we stopped needing to agonize over food. And when I say we I mean us in the west because I think hunger is still an issue in many places.
But I venture that when hunger was the norm children needed little prodding to “clean their plates”.
I had 2 friends, lovely people, but both very overweight, always had been. They adopted a wonderful little girl, she was of a completely different ethnic background from them and she was quite slender.
Now my friends were great parents, don’t get me wrong (and no more neurotic than the average New Yorker), but they would hover over that child and monitor every bite of food that went in her mouth. They were so afraid that she would either a. get fat, or b. not eat enough.
And the girl was not a problem eater as I recall, but I remember thinking she might be by the time her folks had transmitted all their conflicted feelings about food to her.
Weird story. They show the 10 year old boy but do not name the teacher nor have an image of same.
I guess Mooch’s food police are out in full force
Only MOOCHicists ....
And nuns are certainly known for their compassionate treatment of their students/s
A lot of the crap liberals eat looks like it came from the trash. It’s all grass and seeds and sticks. Then throw in some tofu.
Teacher was probably fed up with watching children of the entitlement class toss out their “free” lunches paid for with his tax money.
And, so, what lesson[s] did you draw from that experience?
I don't think the punishment is that serious at all. Perfectly sensible, if you ask me. Do your feelings as a child disagree?
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