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the winnipeg sandbox » winnipeg sandbox.. » national... » wow... environmental nazism apparently begins in school

wow... environmental nazism apparently begins in school

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Deank

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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Sandwich+gets+excluded+from+class+contest/4199546/story.html

That is just tragic. Forcing the kid to be so scared of school and the teachers that he cries about a simple bag being put in his lunch. Just wow.

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Just shows you that we have some really dumb people teaching our kids.

To say the draw was not well thought through is putting it mildly.

holly golightly

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Maybe if you both would have read the 5th paragraph, the draw was held at a lunchtime daycare, not the school so don't blame teachers for something they necessarily had nothing to do with. I don't disagree with the contest but more info should be provided as to the background of why Ziploc plastic bags are not good for the environment to the kids at a level that they can understand.

grumpy old man

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Were the parents put on notice that the contest was being run? Should a child that young be penalized for actions the parents take of don't take?

I don't think so.

holly golightly

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And if you read even further down the article the parents state that they usually use Tupperware to send to school with their son but it was all dirty so they used the plastic bag. How hard would it have been to pull the Tupperware out of the dishwasher, wash it and send the kid to school, especially if they knew of the "contest". Being that they didn't makes me think they didn't know of the "contest".

Deank

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and so a kid is scared of plastic bags.... regardless of how we got there.. a kid is scared of plastic bags.

not right at all

St Norberter

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So a child who normally brings their lunch in Tupperware ,
but one day brings it in a Ziploc bag is excluded from the contest, while a
child who normally brings their lunch in a Ziploc bag, but for the contest
period brings it in Tupperware could win the contest.


Anyone else see the problem?

http://bgilchrist.wordpress.com/

grumpy old man

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I think Tupperware is every bit as environmentally unfriendly as Ziploc. Mayhaps the difference is it is reusable? We should wrap the kids sandwich in newspaper.

Deank

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no no.. send the kid a loaf of bread and a knife to school and let him cut things to make his own sandwiches ..or stab people that try to b1tch at him about the environment,

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holly golightly wrote:Maybe if you both would have read the 5th paragraph, the draw was held at a lunchtime daycare, not the school so don't blame teachers for something they necessarily had nothing to do with. I don't disagree with the contest but more info should be provided as to the background of why Ziploc plastic bags are not good for the environment to the kids at a level that they can understand.

Perhaps you should re-read the article.....



When Mr. Lanciault questioned his son’s teacher, she confirmed the school had staged the draw at a lunchtime daycare



Seems clear to me who held the draw.

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Seems to be a double standard here.
I thought there was a standard about "all students must pass so no one feels left out"
But they exclude a student from a contest just because his parents did not know about the contest and gave him his lunch in a plastic bag.

Or am I mistaken Question

Winklovic

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I'd send my kid to school with every piece of his lunch wrapped in saran wrap and a note saying "we're free thinkers and you can stuff your enviro crap up your recycling bin."

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Wouldn't the contest have been better if the kids got their name entered for doing something positive for the environment, rather than disqualified for something negative? Afterall, these are 6 year olds.

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I wonder what kind of compost-able material the stuffed animal was made out of.

AGEsAces

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I don't understand the problem with the ziploc?

I know at my daughter's daycare, they put whatever container is used for the food back into the her lunchbox for us to take home.
I've reused many ziploc bags for sandwiches. Generally I'll use it 3 or 4 times, unless it's severely soiled or gets damaged.
It's kind of what ziploc was designed for...hence the term "resealable bag".

http://www.photage.ca

Deank

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yeah I had a friend in high school who had two ziplock bags one for cookies, one for his sandwich that he used all year long, which he carried to school in the same paper bag. and he apparently did that every year since kindergarten when I asked him about it. (well the paper bag part anyway.. not sure if sandwich bags existed that long ago??)

So.. even though he is obviously more environmentally friendly then the people who wash a container every day, he would have been left out of the contest too.

holly golightly

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But at the end of the day, a Ziploc bag will go in the garbage where as a Tupperware container, once it is no longer usable as a food container can be recycled at a depot or in your home for other items such as nuts and bolts (the metal kind, not the food kind). Plastic bags cannot be recylced like plastic containers can be, especially if the plastic bags are dirty.

Deank

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a tupperware container that damages the environment every time it is washed?

AGEsAces

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oh bull holly.

a tupperware container...when done being used, will end up the same place as the plastic bag...in the trash.

it will just take much longer to get there is all...and will take much longer to break down.

http://www.photage.ca

Deank

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"
it will just take much longer to get there is all..."

heh.. or in my house... almost the first time it is used and then put in the back of the fridge to turn into a blackiepurplieygreen substance?

holly golightly

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Maybe in your house Ages it will end up in the garbage but if you are a conscientious recycler, it will end up in the recyling bin along with the milk containers and the pop bottles.

AGEsAces

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it still ends up in a trash pile.

i forget the actual number, but it's something like only 10% of what is "recycled" actually gets reused...the rest gets shipped to ocean barges and third-world countries to rot.

http://www.photage.ca

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