Comments on: Our Fascist Elementary School http://www.scottallan.com/2006/08/our-fascist-elementary-school.html Slapping my bumper stickers on the Internet Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:08:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: <![CDATA[Scott Allan]]> http://www.scottallan.com/2006/08/our-fascist-elementary-school.html#comment-51 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:06:20 +0000 http://scottallan.com/?p=189#comment-51 Thank you for taking the time to write. I agree that some rules are valuable. However, when the rule is made solely to take parental control away from the parents and give it to the school, they have gone too far. I am on board with the policy they instituted last year which said that we should not bring in cupcakes or other junk food for birthday parties. This makes sense since it affects the diets of children that are not your own. But why are McDonald's hamburgers less nutritious than the school's hamburgers?? We can not make rules just for the sake of having more rules. There needs to be common sense applied. My child's diet is no one's business but my own. I don't see disorder arising from this unless everybody starting bringing their children lunch from outside. Oh, the chaos that would ensue!<br/><br/>Be careful what rights you are willing to give up to the government. They start out small and seemingly harmless. The next step would be sending social workers to your home to inspect your refrigerator. After that, they'll take your children away because you poisoned them with bacon for breakfast. Perhaps you think that's ok because the government always knows what's best for us. Thank you for taking the time to write. I agree that some rules are valuable. However, when the rule is made solely to take parental control away from the parents and give it to the school, they have gone too far. I am on board with the policy they instituted last year which said that we should not bring in cupcakes or other junk food for birthday parties. This makes sense since it affects the diets of children that are not your own. But why are McDonald’s hamburgers less nutritious than the school’s hamburgers?? We can not make rules just for the sake of having more rules. There needs to be common sense applied. My child’s diet is no one’s business but my own. I don’t see disorder arising from this unless everybody starting bringing their children lunch from outside. Oh, the chaos that would ensue!

Be careful what rights you are willing to give up to the government. They start out small and seemingly harmless. The next step would be sending social workers to your home to inspect your refrigerator. After that, they’ll take your children away because you poisoned them with bacon for breakfast. Perhaps you think that’s ok because the government always knows what’s best for us.

]]> By: <![CDATA[Anonymous]]> http://www.scottallan.com/2006/08/our-fascist-elementary-school.html#comment-50 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:44:06 +0000 http://scottallan.com/?p=189#comment-50 Institutions have rules/policies that serve to keep order, etc. Some make a lot of sense, some not so much. I don't see it as that big of a deal. There may be good reasons for the policy that she did not (or could not) articulate. Or not.<br/><br/>I bet you could not bring a McDonald's lunch to many summer camps to see your son either.<br/><br/>I'm not saying it's fair, but I'm surprised that you are surprised.<br/><br/>:) Institutions have rules/policies that serve to keep order, etc. Some make a lot of sense, some not so much. I don’t see it as that big of a deal. There may be good reasons for the policy that she did not (or could not) articulate. Or not.

I bet you could not bring a McDonald’s lunch to many summer camps to see your son either.

I’m not saying it’s fair, but I’m surprised that you are surprised.

:)

]]> By: <![CDATA[Anonymous]]> http://www.scottallan.com/2006/08/our-fascist-elementary-school.html#comment-49 Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:46:19 +0000 http://scottallan.com/?p=189#comment-49 http://www.xanga.com/mamichula467<br/>my site so you can show my sister & leave comments in the chatterbox :) http://www.xanga.com/mamichula467
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]]> By: <![CDATA[Anonymous]]> http://www.scottallan.com/2006/08/our-fascist-elementary-school.html#comment-48 Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:49:18 +0000 http://scottallan.com/?p=189#comment-48 hello is your sister in law again by the way i saw the videos i love my nephews i like the news flash! lol. i saw the post that isn't fair thank you so much for standing up for my nephew for defending his rights, yo are a real dad! thank you. you should tell the principal i don't think that is a regulation she just wants to make peoples lifes miserable like hers. hello is your sister in law again by the way i saw the videos i love my nephews i like the news flash! lol. i saw the post that isn’t fair thank you so much for standing up for my nephew for defending his rights, yo are a real dad! thank you. you should tell the principal i don’t think that is a regulation she just wants to make peoples lifes miserable like hers.

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