Is this the dumbest thing?

[ckay87]

DS is 10 and in 4th grade. He got a little write up sent home for possibly the stupidest issue I've seen yet. Please know that I am very supportive of our schools and our teachers, but this just falls into the "give me a break" category no matter how I look at it.

So the note says that "during lunch, he pretended to eat a piece of paper and he spit a piece of his cheese back into his water bottle."

In a lunchroom of 200 kids, somebody took the time to notice this. This boggles my mind. When I was in 4th grade, the boys used to suck Jello through a straw with their noses.

Is this just dumb or not? Really, I would like to know if I'm missing the big issue here.

I signed the note "seriously?" along with my name. I shouldn't have, but I couldn't help it.

 

[Mysteria]

Maybe the teacher is offended by cheese?!

It's seems pretty petty to me. If you are missing something Im missing it too.

Myst

 

[phorsenuf]

Guess table manners are important to her.

 

[bananiem]

Well, it certainly ranks as one of the dumbest to me.

 

[nuke]

I love your response.

 

[ckay87]

Guess table manners are important to her.

Granted. I did remind kiddo not to play with his food. But I wonder - have they never met a 10 year old boy before? Maybe living with all these men have toughened me up a little!

 

[piglet too]

At my oldest son's school, a friend of his was given a detention when part of his book bag strap was hanging out of the closed locker. Just a small part, not enough that anyone could have tripped and it was not even at floor level.

 

[debbi801]

This reminds me of a teacher's conference I attended for my DD. They sent a note home asking me to schedule a conference because of an issue that concerned them regarding my DD's behavior. I asked my DD if something happened at school, did she get in trouble, etc. She was clueless. I go to the meeting. They were concerned because my DD broke her sandwich into smaller pieces before eating it instead of eating it whole and they considered it a behavior problem.

I was pretty ticked, especially after taking time off of work to go to the conference. I told the teacher that if breaking a sandwich was this big of a concern for her she was obviously in the wrong line of work. I never heard from her again and DD has not had any more "issues" like that.

 

[SadieDog]

I like your response too.

 

[Anewman]

Can you post more of the note?, it maybe that the teacher was trying to point out a problem and just used DUMB EXAMPLES. Hard to tell without reading the entire thing.

In other words big picture.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

That is lame.

 

[Maleficent13]

I'm going with yup, dumbest thing.

When I was 10, we had a contest at lunch to see who could eat the most red hots without taking a drink. I think the teachers had money on it.

 

[JR6ooo4]

We had a lady at our school that sold the sugar stuff like twinkies. We called her the twinkie lady. When we wer done eating we would take the plastic forks and put one prong on the edge of the table. Then bend it backwards until it snapped off. You could get pretty good accuracy and we tried to get as many as possible to stay in the twinkie lady's hair.... then when she leaned forward they would fall out, heheheheee

Now it seems like what we did was a felony compared to your story.

Mikeeee

 

[nuke]

My mom loves to tell the story about my brother's 2nd grade teacher. Now my brother is and always has been rather forgetful. One of the brilliant but no commen sense kind of people.

My mom said every day for the first two months of school she would get a note home, Steven dropped his pencil, Steven left his gloves on the playground, Steven forgot his hat. Finally my mom wrote her a note back and said I don't want another note home unless Steven has disrupted the entire class or physically harmed someone. The teacher quit at month 3 and then mom finds out that she was sending notes home to ALL the students parents.

 

[lindalinda]

Ive got a good one too. When my son was in 3rd grade I got a note sent home that he was "rolling a marker on the table"

I sent a note back and told her she was obviously at the point where every little thing he did got on her nerves, and she needed to refocus.

 

[rhanditresmom]

I love your response. I would be a little peeved if I got a note like that. I'm sure there are many worse violations occurring in the lunchroom! And I'm speaking as a teacher here. I don't think I would consider that a problem. Of course, I have a son....I think I've seen it all!

 

[ckay87]

Can you post more of the note?, it maybe that the teacher was trying to point out a problem and just used DUMB EXAMPLES. Hard to tell without reading the entire thing.

In other words big picture.

That was it. All I left out was my son's name...oh and the fact that she heard this from classmates. In other words, it said "...other students told me that he...." So even worse, nobody in authority actually even saw this event. They listened to, basically, the tattletales

In fairness, yes, there is a bigger picture. My son really annoys her. I know it, but worst of all, HE knows it. Sh...uh...stuff like this isn't helping their relationship.

 

[suzij13]

I think that I have everyone beat my little brother got sent to the principal's office for passing gas in class. He was in 3rd grade

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Maybe the teacher is offended by cheese?!

Anonymously enroll her in the Cheese-of-the-Month Club.

 

[Sthronds]

When I was teaching I had to write a note home to a parent because their son tore up one of those little puff -balls with eyes and threw it in the toilet. The only reason I told the parents was because I made him remove the fluff from the toilet (wearing gloves) and I didn't want him going home telling his folks that I made him clean the toilet or something!