Yesterday I was at a Halloween event at a local grade school and I was peeved by at least three things I saw
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The lunch menu had "pizza", "cheese sticks and sauce" and "mini
cheeseburgers" on it. Feeding growing kids junk food for lunch on a
regular basis just seems like starting them off on the wrong foot
nutritionally.
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The whiteboard in the gym had a list of reasons to excercise and on it cardiorespiratory was incorectly spelled as cardiorespitory several times. .
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There were a few bean bag toss
games set up. Each kid got the same prize independent on how good or
bad they did. The kids who got the bean bag through the difficult holes
all 3 times got the same amount of candy as the kid who missed all
three. That seems to send the wrong message about competition.
I could actually see myself complaining about one or more of the
above if I was a parent with kids at the school. It looks like I'm
going to be one of those parents when my time comes.