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I'm pretty confused about this one. An elementary school principal in Connecticut has been suspended because of a birthday cake? Well, I guess it was the argument he got into with a parent trying to deliver it to his child's class.
The parent was trying to take a homemade birthday cake to his kids class. Apparently that was against school policy, and when the principal tried to explain that the parent "protested". I am not sure exactly what happened, but it was enough that the suspension may lead to firing for the principal.
Birthday cake is supposed to bring happiness, not aggression. Both of the people involved should be ashamed that they brought negativity to such a happy thing. What so you think about this?
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6-03-2008 @11:13AM kassie said... I was in elementary school in the 80s and you couldn't bring homemade goods then, or course you can't now. Those are just the rules. I don't know how nasty or clean this woman's hygene is and I would rather have my kids not eat something from her home until I did.
Not that I have kids, but if I did, that's how it would be. I also don't eat stuff my co-workers bring into work for the same reason.
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6-03-2008 @11:27AM KG said... Wow, did you actually read the article you linked to? I read it several times and nowhere did I see it mention anything about the cake being homemade. In fact, it was apparently cupcakes and not cake. And the issue was that the parent wanted to personally deliver them to the classroom, and he was told he could not and that his daughter had to come to the office to pick them up.
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6-03-2008 @11:50AM GL said... This is a ridiculous situation.
The article said "D'Amico's lawyer said the issues involve pastry and birthday celebrations.
'This man is being proposed for removal,' lawyer John Gesmonde said. 'I will confirm it was about cupcakes and birthday cakes.'"
No confirmation of cake or cupcake there, KG.
The article doesn't even specify what happened. I doubt the man is being removed from his job for telling someone not to bring sweets to a classroom.
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6-03-2008 @1:58PM Bernie B said... When I was a kid I recall baked goods in the classroom, then again that was when everyone still brown-bagged it. Now that we live in the Paranoid States of America simple pleasures like that are unlikely anymore.
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6-03-2008 @2:32PM Jonathan said... @Bernie: one of the only details the depressingly poorly written article provides is that the school was NOT prohibiting the cupcakes from the classroom, they were merely requiring that the parent not personally deliver the cupcakes to the classroom.
Is there an actual article somewhere? It's not clear what, if anything, happened. A principal being suspended for communicating a school policy sounds absurd; it seems like there must be something else. Did the principal blow up and start a fight? Is the parent well-connected with the school district and getting disproportionate revenge?
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6-03-2008 @4:28PM lizandrsn said... I find this sad...just sad.
If the school had a legitimate arguement, say Sanitation or Food Allergies, I'd probably be ok with that. But in my kid's school, the issue was more about who had *control* over the sweets the kids received. It was OK for the Teachers to bribe them with hard candies, chocolate bars and canned soda if they brought in their paperwork. But to spread fellowship while celebrating a birthday (and this is a Public Elementary school)? Nothing doing.
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6-03-2008 @5:08PM srebra said... This is just stupid. I want to reply for the first comment posted on the article. If you don't wanna eat other people's home made food, think about who make the food you get in the restaurant, and all the baked goods you buy.You ate cock-roaches and food from the floor so many times for sure without knowing it. Everything you eat has been touched by human hand so many times that if you actually know how many you will starve yourself to death. I come from other country and I graduated in 2003, no one ever cared if I bring food or whatever in the school, and it wasn't some crappy school but a good professional art school. Now on the subject that Americans are crazy that is different. What kind of parent will bring bad or nasty food for their kid's birthday? Really? I am curious,....
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6-03-2008 @6:08PM Sandra Fairman said... I have worked in a public elementary school for many years and have seen principals come and go. If this one is receiving this kind of treatment just for enforcing the schools policy, then it could be that this principal is disliked or unpopular with the parents of the children at this school anyway. But, then, we probably don't know all the facts.
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6-04-2008 @9:59AM Deah said... When my children were in elementary school in the early 90s there were no issues with bringing in homemade or store bought items. Somewhere between then and now our local school district has addressed this issue. No food may be brought in by anyone. The exception - teachers can arrange for restaurants to provide food for special occassions.
If I remember right it has to do with food safety, allergies and special diet requirements of the students.
This policy is strictly observed at the elementary level but becomes less restrictive at middle and pretty much doesn't exist at high school.
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6-04-2008 @10:58AM Mark said... If the cake was for a child's birthday, not allowing it should be a no-brainer, rules notwithstanding. Say thirty kids, twenty-four having a birthday during the school year. That's twenty-four cake sessions (not calling them parties). Disappointment ensues for kids with birthdays between school sessions. Of course, Johnny's parents will have to give a nicer cake than Jenny got to show that they're cool. Cake armament race begins. End of life as we know it.
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6-09-2008 @5:20PM Patty Williams said... I think this is happening more and more as schools become more cautious of food allergies and of lawsuits.
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