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 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

And the kids that hadn't had breakfast because there was nothing left to eat at home, they'd love seeing food go to waste whilst their stomachs are growling from hunger?

Mumsnet at its finest

Supermarkets throw away tons of food every day just because it doesn't look right but no, let's shame the teacher for using half a dozen eggs to educate children.

If this gets you worked up then you'd hate our village sports day OP.

We play the Great Egg Challenge. It's always the last event and the highlight of the afternoon. Everyone gets into pairs a d they get one egg between them. They all stand in a long row face to face and one person passes the egg to his/her pair. Then everyone takes one step backwards and the egg is thrown back again. Then another step backwards etc etc. You're out when you drop the egg and it breaks.

It's great fun and no one has ever complained about the food waste element.

Of course all humans impact on the environment and nor are we individually able to solve all social problems like food poverty, but why would anyone make a point of intentionally wasting something when you could still teach the lesson perfectly well without doing that?

And it’s not just about smashing up eggs that one time, it’s about showing a class of 30 kids, future consumers and probably future parents, that waste and food resources isn’t an issue for them to have to think about. Why pretend it isn’t?

Apart from the waste, what about the mess. Dropping an egg from a height as children will want to do will cause quite a splatter.

For crying out loud. One carton of eggs to teach a whole classroom of kids useful concepts around probability in a concrete and fun way. Is this what you are carrying on about? ffs.

I fear this thread will find itself in the media shortly - it’s ludicrous. Have you never made flour and water glue with your kids? Made star shaped biscuits to hang on the Xmas tree and let the kids mangle them in the decorating so that they are inedible? Made pasta art or done potato prints? Our school made batteries using potatoes recently....it was an interesting demonstration for the children.

As a PP said, the food is not being wasted. It’s being used to illustrate something important in maths and the kids will remember it.

I grew up with a respect for food and not wasting it - war era parents and farmers for grandparents. But this virtue signalling is actually just ludicrous.

Made star shaped biscuits to hang on the Christmas tree and mangle the decorating so that they are inedible?
How do you manage to mangle the decorating so much that they become inedible?
Surely the more mishaped and over decorated by the kids the better lol, not render them inedible!

My food budget is £17 per week, which feeds me and my 6 year old son. I couldn't afford eggs this week and he knows. So seeing eggs being wasted at school would upset him.

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

Its not about "fat people" - it is a waste to eat food you don't need, no matter your body size. You might say "at least that person enjoyed it" but that's the case here as well - a whole class will enjoy it.

Well they probably are literally edible - it’s just having been mauled by 5 year olds and covered in multicoloured glitter and licked by the dog in passing you probably wouldn’t want to.

What GivemeGivenchy said.

I can't believe this thread. Before you start fussing over some eggs maybe take a look at your own environmental impact. Drive a car, go on holiday abroad, use of products containing palm oil, etc

The eggs thing is fun! You have all lost the plot

Well fun's subjective, each to their own.
Some people like smashing things up for fun, others don't.
I'm in the latter camp.

Before you start fussing over some eggs maybe take a look at your own environmental impact. Drive a car, go on holiday abroad, use of products containing palm oil, etc - and the poorer children who haven't had breakfast or an evening meal certainly won't be doing any of those things either. I can only assume that those who think it's OK to waste food are nicely comfortably off and can have no idea how little some people and children have to live off.

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I have to say my first reaction was the same as the op's but I send hard boiled eggs in for decorating. I don't know why that feels different

Tiger tooth the op didn't say it was a traditional Russian game, she said it was Russian roulette.

Daisypond

I'm well aware of how little some people have to live off. I know how grim and hard life can be.

Have you been to see your MP about the issue of children who haven't had breakfast or an evening meal and prompted them into action? Are you raising local awareness of the issue?

Or is it easier to wring your hands about some egg activity that, like it or not, will be a fun activity for the kids to do?

It may be "just an egg" but it is immoral, in my opinion, to take the piss out of food that an animal has suffered to produce. There was a thing on big brother where they had to fire frozen chickens at a target. Those animals died for nothing. I dont really care about the environmebt bit to all the scoffing assholes, go and watch an animal being killed for meat, to a chicken farm and, like a pp said, justify it to the kid who is on UC and doesn't have the luxury of taking the piss. What unpleasant people. It's not something to mock about.

@MyDcAreMarvel thank you! I just can’t get over this thread!! What is this world coming to?!

- if I had to choose one thread to illustrate mumsnet without actually describing what the site is about this thread would be it!

I'm a child of the 70s and I'm often of the ' never did me any harm" school of thought. However , I hate wasting food , and I agree with the OP. Can this not be done with water balloons? All have water and one contains paint / dye whatever.

Someone will come back with a comment regarding rubber/ plastic/ chemicals whatever but teaching our children to waste food is not ok.
Google child poverty in the UK, it's heart breaking

VladmirsPoutine - I know!

If you think single use plastic is somehow better than a dozen eggs then something has gone awry somewhere.