Mind-boggling.
For all of the above reasons and probably more.
"It just wouldn't be {fill-in-the-occasion} without...."
without WHAT, exactly?
the need for grief counselors or litigation in the aftermath??
extensive counseling for children to mitigate psychological damage??
Or is it just about the exclusion, embarrassment, and ALIENATION
in the moment? My personal favorite may just be the half-a$$ed statement:
If it’s not too late, suggest some games and easy crafts that can be done during the party in lieu of eating food in the classroom.
You know, but only if it's "not too late." Yeah, if they've already planned out how to endanger your child without bothering to consult you, best to just let it go... and heaven forbid that you do more than offer any friendly "suggestions" for alternatives. Don't be bossy. Be
NICE. Above all, let other people do exactly as they please, even if it means extreme risk or fear for your child and even if it means that you have to do economically crippling things to accomodate them. Yup... if the other classroom parents want to do things that way, why...
why aren't you just THERE for the day? What? All day, every day? Of course... if you
really cared about your kid and didn't just want everyone else to take on your :problems: for you (oh BARF)... you'd just quit your job so that
you could take care of your own responsibilities... other parents can do as they damned well please without giving it another thought. Yes, loving and responsible parents, apparently, must.... um.... be the ones homeschooling their children so that nobody else has to interact with them in the first place... since asking schools to please, just... not do stuff that is LIKELY to result in death or permanent injury... yeah, apparently parents are supposed to act as 24/7
watchdogs for this sort of thing. By being present all the time, evidently, ready to simply remove our kids if the risk is too high.
Just in case someone else gets a wild hair to do something that anyone with the IQ of a grapefruit could see was collossally stupid and likely to end in disaster?? AUGHHHHHHHH.... But really, that
is the subtext with that statement.
SERIOUSLY??