Aibu to think that wasting eggs in this way is wrong?

[WillyNilly00]

I'm a TA at a school and today the teacher was telling me about a Russian roulette style game she planned to play with the children before Easter. It involves the children picking 1 of 2 eggs to 'back', then the eggs are dropped to see which is hardboiled, until just 1 child wins. Apparently 10-15 eggs are used.

Now I am against encouraging children to throw eggs at all but aibu to morally object to this game? Surely in this age of encouraging children not to waste anything and teaching them to be environmentally conscious this is inappropriate?

The teacher I work with looked at me like I had 2 heads when I raised this point.

I think it's a huge waste, it's immoral given the environmental impact of food waste, children going hungry etc.

Don't like the idea of using any food tbh.

We all have to do what we can to reduce our impact on the environment, in an ideal world I would be a vegan, but I love meat, eggs and dairy too much - so at the very least I can try not to waste them when I have them.

I don't like the idea of it - it is food waste. There could easily be children turning up to school who have had no breakfast and won't have an evening meal either because their families can't afford to eat properly - what are they going to think of this? What would their parents think? "Only a few eggs" to some people is a "week's worth of evening meals" to another.

I think it shows how far we are removed from food production (and it's true cost) that we can countenance such a casual attitude.
I keep hens and trust me if I accidentally break and egg I am mightily pissed off, even if I have a dozen others, because I know what it took to produce.

I think that's a good point - it does smack a bit of 'Oh well, never mind, lets throw them about as after all we can just go to Tescos and get some more.'

My kids did this except they had to throw the eggs at each other.
I'm sure the chickens have plenty more to go round.
They didn't turn into monsters who went round throwing eggs.
The kids, not the chickens

I think the smashing of eggs sounds a bit gratuitous. I hate food waste.

It's also not very emotionally aware of other people's circumstances. I have a friend who is a pt TA, and I know that money is really really tight for her, quite apart from some of the children in the class.

I'm also a bit on those knockout style games where only one child wins. I know we don't want to raise snowflakes, but it's hardly going to retain the attention of the rest of the class if they have all been knocked out.

If that's faced, then fine. I just think there could be plenty of other activities which could achieve the same learning objective without approaching it this way.

*I think it shows how far we are removed from food production (and it's true cost) that we can countenance such a casual attitude.

Is it bollocks. When we were practically an entirely agricultural country there was a hell of a lot more cheese flinging and egg bothering going on in the name of entertainment.

Ruining good food while people are going hungry is just immoral (see also cake smashes and "sensory play").

Well said, DrCoconut

WillyNilly00 I applaud you for your sense that there is something really wrong with the egg idea, and I hope you will be successful in your conversation with the teacher.

I think it is a bit wasteful really, in the scale of things it’s not much, but it’s just the attitude I guess. And there are loads more ways to illustrate probability.

Perhaps the eggs could be dropped onto a try and left out for some local foxes to have a feast later - otherwise wasteful

Sorry, but as someone with an eating disorder the whole “fat people eating is a waste of food” thing is unbelievably fucking nasty.

Vegan?

Waste of eggs and totally unnecessary when you can buy a game cheaply like this. My son has it and you put water in the plastic 'eggs.'

I hate food waste so I wouldn’t be happy about this at all.

YABU - so what - it's a traditional Russian game - LO: Games from other cultures and FUN.
You're a teaching assistant; assist.

Waste of eggs and totally unnecessary when you can buy a game cheaply like this. My son has it and you put water in the plastic 'eggs.'

Which is worse? Using some natural products that have no environmental impact, or buying cheap plastic that will hang around for generations and has had to be shipped across the world from some poor underpaid worker that gets paid a few cents to put it together?

How the hell do you quote people in bold?? I can’t seem to quote or tag?? Loved the ‘po-faced virtue signalling’ Jesus Christ. Get over yourselves. It’s 15 eggs to engage, enjoy, have fun. You know that thing that kids used to do? Before SATs and fucking vegans took over the world being sad about everything and offended by anything.

How the hell do you quote people in bold?

Use before and after no spaces

@IAteTheLastOne use @ then copy paste name to tag again no spaces.

Maybe you could hold a little funeral for the eggs and invite the parent chickens to share their pain.

Maybe the teacher needs to check SIMS to see whether there is a child who is allergic to eggs before she holds this activity. Sparking off anaphylaxis from splashes or from a participating child not washing their hands enough - or from touching the ground - might not be such a good plan, either.

Would have thought a lot of teachers would consider that, even if a bit of humanity and social awareness hadn't reached them by the age of, say 22.

Most hens live imprisoned lives and free range does not mean free range. And now it seems their suffering may be only so that their eggs can be played with. God help us all. Please support old-fashioned cruelty-free farming and please eat what farm animals produce for us rather than play with it.

Oh my lord. Seriously? What is the world coming to?

We are talking a pack of eggs not 20 cows.

What happened to FUN? You are all MAD.

And those kids who have not had a proper breakfast would probably enjoy the fun I would imagine !

I'm sure half of you drive your kids to school and you're outraged by a few eggs gone astray

Maybe the teacher could research free breakfast and lunch options and availability of local food banks for families during the summer break, and print out leaflets with locations and times of operation, conditions of use, etc. to give to the children as they leave on the last day.

This exercise might put the 'fun' element of wasting eggs into perspective.