AIBU to think schools shouldn’t be giving out Easter Eggs?

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My DD4 will be showered with chocolate I'm the upcoming week. It’s part of the fun of Easter. But her teachers have already given her, and all the nursery class, a medium sized chocolate egg each and chocolates were being handed around today. AIBU to think giving out chocolates is for parents to monitor and decide, and the school should focus on other healthier Easter activities? Why are schools spending money on unhealthy treats that have no educational purpose?

You’re ignorance and entitlement is shining through OP. Just because families have money, it doesn’t mean that the children get showered with chocolate.

The teachers are doing a nice thing to show their students that they appreciated their hard work, cooperation and company throughout the term. It makes the children feel appreciated and helps build a friendly relationship with their teachers.

If you don’t want cupboards full of chocolate ask ‘everyone else’ to tone it down, tone down your egg hunt or save up the eggs from other people and do an egg hunt with them. This is your problem, not the school’s.

My son got an egg last week at his special school the Easter Bunny visited apparently ...., They also.had an Easter disco with party food, and his Escort on his Bus also got him an egg ,I think it's a nice gesture .

to see what the Easter bunny has delivered

Perhaps the bunny could deliver carrots or easter crafts.

Well OP I think you should count your lucky stars that you are in the fortunate position of having the means to provide a lovely Easter egg hunt for your DD, what’s more you have a generous family who give your DD lots of chocolate, what a kind gesture. Why don’t you show a bit of kindness and donate the excess eggs you are given to a food bank ?

Win win eh ?

As for the ‘school’ providing the chocolate- if it was a state school then it will definitely have come from staff themselves or the PTA which is no problem as it’s not ‘school’ funds, but as it’s a wealthy fee paying school then they will certainly have plenty of money so why does it matter??

The ‘showering’ of chocolate comes from all the giant eggs she’s given from every other person. We end up with a cupboard full of them

So ask “every other person” to buy her something different. Or gratefully accept and donate any excess to a food bank. Ours particularly asks for chocolate at Christmas/Easter.

YABU

Your school do stuff with the 4 yo's that isn't strictly educational?? That's disgraceful, I think you need to pull them out. How DARE they teach 4 year olds that school is for anything but hard slog and learning.

Ours got an Easter Egg for attendance for all term. I'm against it in principal - first one we've achieved and certainly won't next term due to medical issues but he's so excited her has chocolate. He gotsome earlier and the rest is in the fridge. He also had a Cadburys creme egg which he insisted on eating and not giving to me.

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I don’t feel strongly, that is why I asked AIBU. If I was sure I wouldn’t ask.

There is often great honest feedback on here and I find it a helpful check. I hadn’t thought about this from the teacher’s point of view and I appreciate the pps pointing this out.

I don’t think I’m entitled, though. I’m not saying that my DD or I are entitled to anything (more the opposite).

Maybe the Easter Bunny could deliver some fruit and vegetables? Kiwi fruit are sort of egg shaped.

Btw, by ‘medium egg’ I don’t mean a creme egg, it is a bigger boxed one

God forbid the wealthy children should get a common boxed up Easter Egg

I was imagining something like this. For £1.

www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/cadbury-dairy-milk-buttons-small-chocolate-easter-egg/813204-479624-479624

Don't worry op, in a short space of time your child will be doing virtually nothing but maths, reading and English, all day every day.
Just wait till year 6 when all joy will be sapped from every minute of the school day to be replaced with studying to pass sats.
You will then be able to reassure your bored and frustrated child that this is much better than any siily, irrelevant activity that you can do at home .

Why not buy one less egg for the hunt? I can't see the issue and I always try. It is a nice gesture imo

I spend money on my class every Easter. Some of them don't get much else. They are always told to take it away and check with a parent before they eat. Can't you take the chocolate away for later and explain your views?

That's not what entitled means here. It means that you can't see why a school thinks it's appropriate to give the kids something for Easter, even a fee paying school . That not all kids will be as lucky as your daughter even if money isn't an issue. You can't see past your own situation to see how other kids might benefit. That kind of entitlement.

DS2 is at 6th Form and the whole tutor group clubbed together to buy their tutor a huge egg. I hope she's ok with that.

It’s weird to me that teachers want to add to that It's one medium egg. If you have so much you have to put it away and eat it until Christmas it is not the fault of one medium egg. That will be gone before Easter day anyway ours will be gone by then for sure

Ask the family to buy smaller eggs/books/clothes etc.
Melt it down to make cakes to share.
Donate some to a food bank,

If you are really that bothered give an egg to the local food bank

I think that you have raised some interesting points. I am enough of a kid to love anything that extends a holiday period, but maybe you could talk to your little girl, and explain that her Easter egg hunt will happen, but you would like to ask others to donate money so the 2 of you could go and choose eggs and maybe some other stuff, and donate them to a food bank?
Not in a creepy virtue signalling way, just stick them in the thing in tesco

YANBU. My kid would be hysterical to be given an egg which I would them have to take away due to food allergies. It’s ok IF they cater for all children, including gifting an equivalent treat to children who aren’t allowed to celebrate Easter.

You are being ridiculous.

What's more, children remember little things like this in times to come. I still remember being given one of those fun sized boxes of smarties at school at Christmas.

Stop being such a misery guts

Blimey op, are you just really bored and looking for shit to get wound up about. It's an eater egg. It's fine,

And just because a child's family is wealthy doesn't for one moment mean their parents or family treat them with any form of kindness or get them Easter eggs.

Really, get a grip and focus on something that really is worrying and not the school, giving kids an Easter egg as a sodden treat.

Oh this is too funny. God forbid children be given something unhealthy and non-educational as a one off treat! The horror! Get a grip, OP.

Also, well done at constantly dropping that this is a "wealthy" school with "wealthy" families. Yes, we get it- you are on of those "wealthy" families. How lovely for you.

That not all kids will be as lucky as your daughter even if money isn't an issue. You can't see past your own situation to see how other kids might benefit. That kind of entitlement.

Bingo. Much better put than I could have! You’re basically saying OP, that it’s your prerogative to ply your child with chocolate but a teacher shouldn’t be, no matter how moderately. It’s hypocritical and the implication that a teacher should just be there to teach and nothing else, is a bit uncomfortable.

The ‘showering’ of chocolate comes from all the giant eggs she’s given from every other person. We end up with a cupboard full of them.

Well tell all these people showering your children with giant eggs to stop!

Why pick on the teachers doing a nice thing rather than your friends and family