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.Â* 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. I am not sure I would allow my kid to tell others
what we eat at home. Next thing you know they will want to know if we
have guns.

If this happened when I was a kid, I would have made up a bunch of stuff.