why don't parent's listen ?

[bsblady01]

why don't parent's listen to what the school/teacher says. I just got a note home in my k daughters backpack that a child came to school with peanut butter crackers for snack today, this is a nut free class. parents were told this at meet the teacher day and again on the first day of school.


had the teacher not seen this the little boy could have had a big issue. the teacher has decided that she will provide snack for all of the kids for the rest of the year so there are no more issues.

 

[Chocolate Cake]

Maybe Grammy was babysitting and packed the snack that morning? Maybe the child threw it in? Maybe mom was in a hurry and totally forgot about the needs of the other students?

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

why don't parent's listen to what the school/teacher says. I just got a note home in my k daughters backpack that a child came to school with peanut butter crackers for snack today, this is a nut free class. parents were told this at meet the teacher day and again on the first day of school.


had the teacher not seen this the little boy could have had a big issue. the teacher has decided that she will provide snack for all of the kids for the rest of the year so there are no more issues.

Maybe the PARENTS didn't get the note.
I'm sure notes will get lost in your DAUGHTER'S (unless you have more than one daughter in the class) backpack on occasion.

Or maybe they just don't care.

 

[Mizzoufan]

As a teacher you should know notes don't always make it home.

 

[frndshpcptn]

that's really generous of the teacher to provide snacks for the year for the entire class

 

[bsblady01]

Maybe the PARENTS didn't get the note.
I'm sure notes will get lost in your DAUGHTER'S (unless you have more than one daughter in the class) backpack on occasion.

Or maybe they just don't care.

everyone in the class was told during meet the teacher day.

 

[DisneyOma]

Maybe the PARENTS didn't get the note.
I'm sure notes will get lost in your DAUGHTER'S (unless you have more than one daughter in the class) backpack on occasion.

Or maybe they just don't care.

Maybe Grammy was babysitting and packed the snack that morning? Maybe the child threw it in? Maybe mom was in a hurry and totally forgot about the needs of the other students?

But the original info wasn't just in a note, it was info given on Meet the Teacher day and on the first day of school. Grandma should have been instructed by child's parent not to put anything peanut in the backpack. Kindergarten-aged children should be able to understand the no peanut situation too.

Glad the teacher caught it, hopefully it won't happen again.

 

[Mizzoufan]

everyone in the class was told during meet the teacher day.

Maybe those parents weren't there Give them the benefit of the doubt. The are only human after all.

 

[kamik86]

Kindergarten aged kids may not be old enough to understand the no peanut situation.

To understand peanut butter isn't allowed yes they are old enough. To understand why this is such a big deal and is more important then don't eat cookies before dinner though... yeah a lot of the kids probably don't grasp that concept.

So the child could have done it.

Or mom had some emergency that day and had to drop the kid off at grandma and in the rush forgot about the lunch rule. I don't think she is a bad person to forget about a rule to protect a kid she never met.

Maybe the child has a smaller sibling that likes to put random fun stuff in bags... I had a niece like this when I went to school you wouldn't believe some of the fun stuff I found in my bag...

 

[The Mystery Machine]

why don't parent's listen to what the school/teacher says. I just got a note home in my k daughters backpack that a child came to school with peanut butter crackers for snack today, this is a nut free class. parents were told this at meet the teacher day and again on the first day of school.


had the teacher not seen this the little boy could have had a big issue. the teacher has decided that she will provide snack for all of the kids for the rest of the year so there are no more issues.

Sounds unfortunate for the teacher. Buying daily snacks for the kids the rest of the YEAR! Yikes.

The chances of a child bringing in a nut laden snack are pretty high. If kid is spending the week with auntie or grammy, they may not understand or know about the nut free policy.

If you want to make sure that the room is "nut free" providing the snack is the safest option.

 

[slo]

The child may be responsible for getting their own snack.
I had my kids get their own snack ready at this age to teach them responsibility and time management (allowing yourself enough time in the morning to do this).
I normally asked them what they packed, but there were times that I just asked them if they got the snack ready. So something like them packing a peanut butter item could have slipped out of the house that day.

I usually give people the benefit of the doubt unless it's pretty obvious that they did something on purpose.

 

[Gracie09]

There are so many reasons why this could have happened. I actually think the teacher is a bit extreme to jump to providing snack which can have its own set of issues. The child with the allergy needs to be taught not to touch food that doesn't belong to him without talking to mom or dad first. I have several friend with kids with peanut allergies and from a young age 3 or 4, they know to ask first

 

[fly girl]

I'm 99.8% of the time the snack/lunch packer.

Husband, who fills in than .2% is very likely to forget the warning of the allergy. Sure, he heard it at meet the teacher day. You betcha, he read the note. But he's not thinking about it when 2 minutes before the bus comes he's realized she doesn't have a snack packed. He's put all that info on me. It goes in one ear, out the other since he rarely does it!

** this scenario hasn't happened (rather he forgot the snack). But I can see how this mistake can go down. I accidentally packed a pb&j last year after I realized she wanted to buy lunch that day and I already made the pb&j. Thankfully no allergy in class, but still I'm human and I forgot.

 

[sam_gordon]

Maybe because there's so much info thrown at parents at the beginning of school, the original note got lost in the shuffle?
Maybe only one parent made the "meet the teacher night" and the other one packed the snack?
Maybe neither parent made the "meet the teacher night" (work schedules, conflicts with other kids, etc)?
Maybe the child grabbed the snack on the way out the door?
Maybe they had the peanut snack in the backpack during a weekend trip (or evening trip) and it didn't get cleared out before going back to school?
Maybe the child catches the bus/carpools with another family who doesn't have a child in the class and complained they forgot their snack?

There are WAY too many possibilities to be grabbing pitchforks.

 

[leebee]

Maybe the PARENTS didn't get the note.
I'm sure notes will get lost in your DAUGHTER'S (unless you have more than one daughter in the class) backpack on occasion.

Or maybe they just don't care.

I see what you did there! As everyone has said, there are WAY too many possibilities for miscommunication here to be blaming the parents.

 

[MickeySP]

I'm 99.8% of the time the snack/lunch packer.

Husband, who fills in than .2% is very likely to forget the warning of the allergy. Sure, he heard it at meet the teacher day. You betcha, he read the note. But he's not thinking about it when 2 minutes before the bus comes he's realized she doesn't have a snack packed. He's put all that info on me. It goes in one ear, out the other since he rarely does it!

** this scenario hasn't happened (rather he forgot the snack). But I can see how this mistake can go down. I accidentally packed a pb&j last year after I realized she wanted to buy lunch that day and I already made the pb&j. Thankfully no allergy in class, but still I'm human and I forgot.

ITA with this. I know my xDH would not have thought of that when he would volunteer to do the lunch packing.

Too many variables to just jump to a conclusion that parents were negligent. But then this is the DIS, conclusion jumping is an Olympics sport here

 

[NHdisneylover]

As PPs are pointing out, similar to when your student's parents forgot to send her with a sack lunch on the zoo trip day, there are a myriad of reasons why these things can be easily missed by families trying to get kids off to school. Getting so worked up and accusatory about what is really a simple mistake (yes, I do realize said mistake can be very dangerous for the child with the allergy) is not productive.

And I agree that is is a massive overreaction for the teacher to jump to her buying snacks for the entire class every day all year based on one incident early in the year of one kid forgetting the rule. That is a huge amount of liability and cost for that teacher to take on personally. Not to mention, as a parent, I might get pretty annoyed if the snacks provided were not tings my child would eat or were too processed and not as healthy as I would pack, etc but you told me we could no longer pack our own and there was a snack time. I am really surprised that a teacher would take on all of that based off of one incident.

 

[NewRVLady]

the way we did this is once a month a parent was responsible for the snacks that day for the whole class
This was before the peanut butter stuff
so you sent candy, cookies or sliced apples and peanut butter
whatever

 

[MickeySP]

Btw, what happens if some kids hate her idea of a snack? They just get nothing? So now you have a hungry cranky kid(s)

What if I don't feed my kid processed junk & she brings crap? My kid only eats organic? My kid only eats green food?

I think she is creating a larger problem.

 

[bsblady01]

Btw, what happens if some kids hate her idea of a snack? They just get nothing? So now you have a hungry cranky kid(s)

What if I don't feed my kid processed junk & she brings crap? My kid only eats organic? My kid only eats green food?

I think she is creating a larger problem.

I have a feeling it will be gold fish and animal cookies which most kids love