On 10/30/2020 1:37 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Friday, October 30, 2020 at 4:07:07 PM UTC-4, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>> On 10/30/2020 10:10 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> On 10/30/2020 10:39 AM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>>> On 10/30/2020 7:27 AM, Graham wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 07:17:46 -0700, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/30/2020 7:17 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2020-10-30 9:52 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Friday, October 30, 2020 at 9:48:54 AM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 2020-10-30 5:22 a.m., Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> beyond the 9th grade. It wasn't required in High School.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> We studied that stuff in a subject/class called "Health" in the
>>>>>>>>>>> late
>>>>>>>>>>> 70's/early 80's.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I took that in combination with Sex Ed. Again, more warnings about
>>>>>>>>>> drugs. We learned first aid as well.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Angela's health class involved a diet section. She had to list
>>>>>>>>>> her meals
>>>>>>>>>> and snacks for two weeks. She also had to go through the kitchen and
>>>>>>>>>> look for offensive items like things with HFCS. The teacher did not
>>>>>>>>>> believe her report. The only offensive foods she found were
>>>>>>>>>> molasses,
>>>>>>>>>> corn syrup and various forms of sugar. Her breakfast at the time was
>>>>>>>>>> usually raw baby carrots or an apple. She waited until she got
>>>>>>>>>> home to
>>>>>>>>>> eat lunch because her assigned lunch time was 2:00 pm.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> When I went to the parent's night, the teacher lit into me. She
>>>>>>>>>> couldn't
>>>>>>>>>> believe that I didn't have things like cake mix in the house.
>>>>>>>>>> *shrug*
>>>>>>>>> A teacher lit into you because you didn't have things like cake
>>>>>>>>> mix???
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> BULLSHIT !!!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Although Julie writes poorly, my takeaway was that the teacher thought
>>>>>>>> Julie was lying when she stated she did not have cake mix in her
>>>>>>>> house.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In that case, I will have to assume she had experienced dealing with
>>>>>>> Julie and knew that she is factually challenged.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> FWIW. I do not have a cake mix in the house. There has not been one
>>>>>>> here
>>>>>>> for more than 10 years, and not many before that. We really do not eat
>>>>>>> much in the line of process or prepared foods. We used to have the odd
>>>>>>> jar of pasta sauce or can of soup or baked beans. Even those were
>>>>>>> rarely
>>>>>>> used.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How would the topic of cake mix even come up?
>>>>>
>>>>> Because her teacher didn't believe that she just ate carrots and apples.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And how would THAT even come up?
>>>
>>> Did you read where students kept a two week log of meals and snacks? The
>>> audit of pantry? Part of a class project. I have no idea how many but
>>> a lot of homes with kids would have cake mix instead of from scratch.
>>>
>> No, I missed that.
>
> In all fairness, it was in the midst of a great wad of logorrhea. I probably should
> have been nicer to you and Gary. (Different post; not the one you replied to here.)
>
> And when we were kids, stuff like that was none of our teachers' business, and they
> knew it.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

I am surprised they could get away with it, since it infringes on ethnic
and national origin stuff.