Teaching assistant eating ice lolly

[JJ6]

Am I being OTT to think it totally out of order for the teaching assistant to be sitting next to my daughter in after school club eating an ice lolly when the children had fruit and biscuits (this being a very hot day) !!

hmmm...would it have been ok if it was a cup of tea? Maybe she's pregnant?

Bit mean, especially as it was an after school club.

Very rude.

If she wanted a lolly, she should have offered to buy all the children one.

I'm not sure I would say it was 'totally out of order'...

Yes, you're being OTT and need to get a grip.

She should be shot, I mean the children might get the idea that sometimes they can't have what other people are having! When in fact the real world is always fair all the time...

I'm eating an icecream at lunchtime, my throat is very sore and I have to use it a lot.
Icecream seems to help.
Our Pupil council is trying to ban biscuits and cake in the staffroom as part of the healthy schools policy, perhaps your daughter could suggest it.
Is the TA paid to work in the after school club, or a volunteer?

I think it's a good lesson for children to learn that just because some one else is eating something doesn't automatically mean that they should get it too.

Otherwise my children would be eating my posh belgian chocolate mousses, and they are for ME

It is unprofessional - I don't sit at my desk shovelling down cream cakes. She's working, and should behave like it, not like she's on a day out at the beach. Nothing to do with having what the children can't.

Hell, I used to eat cream cakes at my desk.

I would ask for her immediate sacking.

I ate a cake while chatting to some kids at lunch, I am expecting my p45 in the morning

yabu

let the woman have a lolly FFS\

Just the image it projects - look at me, enjoying my treat when I should be working.... [hardline]

Cup of tea = fine
Bar of Dairy Milk = for in front of the TV only

And it is poor form not to share treats, whether it's with colleagues or children in the after-school club.

You should have her shot.

Or, unclench.

If she was eating it and the children had nothing then she would have been totally out of order. But if they had fruit and biscuits and possibly a drink? Then I can't really see the problem. As others have said we can't all have something just because someone else has it.

Cor, I wouldn't be impressed either. What a meanie.

YAbu

I work in a school. I have occasionally when hungover nipped out at lunch and brought back a McDonalds for myself. Should have seen the kids as I sauntered across the yard...practically slobbering they were.

Get a grip.

is that it? She was eating an ice lolly?

They are kids. Why should they expect to have the same as her?

What sort of ice-lolly? There is probably a scale. Cornetto, Magnum at one end, fruit juice made up in an ice-tray in the kitchen at the other.

was it Nestle? is this what all the fuss is about?

If she had bought enough in to share all the hippy parents would be complaining that she is making the kids obese.

FWIW I regularly take a hot pie or two from the butchers for my DH and accompanying member of staff to eat in front of kids at break time in winter.