Halloween

[ectohitch]

Since being on my own, I've never handed out candy on Halloween. No one trick-or-treats in North Oakland (I had candy on hand the first year I was there), and no kid knew to ring the doorbell to get me down from the 3rd floor on Carson St., so there was never any need

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[mlebuffy]

While it might be against the rules some places, it is certainly not the rule in most. While most schools don't allow students to carry food/beverages around with them outside the cafeteria, class-planned celebrations with food are okay. Occassions like Halloween and Christmas are still ripe with candy, as well as other pre-planned celebrations. The thing that might look bad is if you give out food/candy/beverages sneakily, and maybe to some students as opposed to all. If it's planned in advance (or on a holiday) it's fair game. My students had candy today and no one said a thing. However, one of my students told me that his 16th birthday is tomorrow and I should give him candy as a present. That I cannot do.

[ectohitch]

Apparently, the Keystone Oaks policy is such that Kelly had to get permission to use peanut M&Ms as a model for the earth's core.

[mlebuffy]

That's crazy. But still, it was planned in advance and she got permission so she was allowed to use them, right?

[ectohitch]

Yeah -- but "the guy I'm dating wants to get rid of his excess candy" isn't really academically sound.

[slaintebannen]

Here's the thing, and I know it sounds stupid, but hear me out...

It was entirely because it was the Peanut M&M. Ever since this whole Peanut allergy craze in the last few years, Peanuts have essentially been outlawed in schools because one genetically dificient child goes apeshit and dies from being exposed to peanuts. Had it been the standard peanut, it would have been fine.

I know, I know. Sounds stupid, but so does a peanut allergy. That's why effing everything has to be labeled as containing peanuts or, possibly, maybe, one day, kinda, sorta, coulda been near a peanut.

Fucking peanuts.

[ectohitch]

It really wasn't. It was because it was an M&M. She would have had to do it for any candy, like she does for the one she wants to do later about how you can put a candy bar back together once you take it apart (I'm forgetting what geological thingie this is about, but it's about something, and you can't use Kit-Kat bars to do it.)

She actually has a peanut allergy, too. It bites for her.

[slaintebannen]

Man, that's just fucked up. Even in my retro teachings by the Catholics, it's still cool to give kids some candy once in a while. Then again, it is the Catholics and they like the kids...but I digress.

I say this much: more power to her for putting up with it and not having a total shit-fit.

That's seriously crazy, though. I...I...I can't even wrap my brain around it. I really can't. Once again, I say that my place isn't in the classroom forever, but instead in administration where I can get everything back to how it should be.