The school denied them crackers

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Primary school had a fake vote yesterday (only KS2 voted)

They voted in majority for the Green Party...

Today was Christmas dinner and Christmas jumper today.

Usually they get crackers with their dinners but were told today that because over half of them voted in the Green Party they wouldn't be getting crackers with their dinner.

Aibu to think the school shouldn't have done this? Seems a bit mean to me 🤷‍♀️

“ Could t they all havemade crackers from recycled paper (bring in old magazines and newspapers for example) instead?”

So parents would make them?

OMG, my american ass is over here being like they denied your child some crackers? How dare they not feed kids snack time and say its because of the environment. I just figured it out haha.

Ah. The Law of Unintended Consequences in action.

Presumably if they had voted for a different political party, they may have been -

given jobs training / a chance to vote using a different system next time / asked to contribute to school thru' fundraising / allowed to make divisive remarks about anyone they didn't like before sending them home / given a daft hat & asked satirise the entire voting system / sent down the workhouse

• depending on the outcome?

I could only get worked up about this if the result was singled out for attention specifically because it was Green, & as there is no way of establishing that - meh.

Our school’s eco-team decided not to buy crackers. No one is sad. No one.

Out of interest what was your DD's reasoning behind voting Green? Is she concerned about the environment?

On the whole I think it was a good lesson, decisions have consequences etc. The teachers could have been more positive about it but maybe they wanted to come across neutral so they weren't seen to be influencing the children? Let's imagine for a minute: The head teacher stands there in assembly and says 'We're proud that so many of you voted Green! It shows that you have a real concern for our planet. Because of this we as a school are going to do what we can to avoid unnecessary plastic waste, which is why we won't be having crackers with the Christmas meal. Instead we'd like to reward you for your consideration of the future of earth with something that won't be detrimental to it - you'll have an extra 10 minutes of playtime today instead!'

You can bet your bottom dollar parents would be marching up to the school shouting that their child is now saying they don't want any plastic toys at Christmas and that'll ruin everything for everyone because they (the parents) have a pile of plastic all wrapped up, and how dare the teachers sway the children's views by rewarding them for voting a certain way, and it's indoctrination and they're going to the papers... It could have been disastrous to be anything other than neutral.

I think 10 is old enough for your DD to think about why she decided to vote how she did - either it's because she really believes that was the best choice for the future of the majority, the 'right' choice, in which case she should stand by that even if there are slightly disappointing consequences for her, or she was just following the crowd, in which case it's a good lesson in thinking for herself.

It's a useful life lesson that most environmental activists are joy sucking crazies. Who knows, perhaps fewer of them will be emoting over Thunberg in years to come having realised so young.

If there had simply not been any crackers, the kids probably wouldn't have been that bothered. It's the fact that (from what OP has posted) they were told that they can't have crackers because all the naughty children voted for the evil Green party, who want to spoil everyone's fun.
If the school had, in fact, announced that they would not be having crackers this year because landfill, waste, environment etc, the kids might have been a bit disappointed, but not for long. But they seem to have done it in such a way that it's bound to come across as 'You must suffer if you care about the environment. Suck it up, snowflakes. You've just made all the other kids hate you.'

Which doesn't strike me as the healthiest of lessons to teach DC.

I'm reminded of the Christmas Good life and Margo having to make crackers out of newspaper, and shouting snap, as bang was common.

I imagine the no crackers decision was made some time ago (either that or someone forgot to buy them!) , and the Green Party vote was given as an inspired reason for not having them.

[I am having a little smile at the thought of a staff member waiting on the end of a phone in the pound shop for the call from School Election HQ, either "There's been a swing to the conservatives, it's go go go on the crackers" or " they've gone total Greta, we're back to basics, no balloons, repeat no balloons and cancel the crackers"]

So a majority of the school voted for a thing, and it had consequences. The minority are pissed off with the majority because they do not get the thing they want, even though they did not vote for the thing.

Welcome to Brexit kids.

@viques made me chuckle!

@ReanimatedSGB yes this exactly

They should have made their own recycled, albeit non-banging, crackers from newspaper and loo rolls.

Are today’s children not able to deal with disappointment ffs.

A school teaching kids about the impact of voting in a way they can understand? Absolutely outrageous. If we're not careful this might be the first generation in a long time that manages to make an educated vote!

Oh ffs it took me almost half way through the replies to realise you meant like pull crackers not food crackers!!

I was so. Fucking. Confused

Hopefully a useful message will have made it through to some of the children. The thought of the millions of little plastic cracker toys going in the bin at the end of Christmas Day (or Christmas parties) really is a bit grim.

Yikes, sounds like it's good they didn't vote Tory or they'd have had to figure out who were the poorest children in the class and make sure they didn't get any food. It'd be funny if it wasn't the reality.

That's a good idea! Crackers are a stupid waste of packaging.

I think it’s genius, although it could have been explained better why they didn’t get them.

I’ve denied my kids crackers this year too, way too much plastic shite cluttering up the world already, they’re getting chocolates and a table game to play instead. Well done your kids school OP, I’d be praising them, not complaining.

I though you meant the school were denying them part of their lunch

I agree with the school no one needs plastic tat.

I actually think this is s

The years 3-6 who decided to vote didn't feel happy... they felt guilty.

The HT is probably hoping al the conservative voters will feel guilty about what they've chosen to do school funding.

This is one reason why I rarely vote green. Life would be a lot less fun with a Green government.

*genius

@Ski4130 I'm not complaining about the lack of crackers... Crackers are a waste

I'm complaining about the way it was done