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) !!

Maybe the TA had hayfever, when my drugs wear off and I'm in the middle of a sneezing fit or my eyes and throat start itching, for some reason ice lollies ease the symptoms. I eat hundreds through the summer and my children and their friends all know not to touch my lollies!

Children need to learn you can't have what everybody else is having all the time

'It is inappropriate behaviour in a person that is suposed to be setting an example on how to behave'

I'm a bit like 'Wow, really?' at this Lonnie.

She's not swearing at the children, or neglecting them. What bad example is she setting exactly? That they are children and she is an adult? And that in fact the two are not 'equal'. It is exactly this sense of entitlement in children (and their V unreasonable parents) which made me leave teaching after 10 years. Their loss.

What bad example is she setting? The example that adults say one thing "eat healthily, share and share alike, treat others as you would like to be treated etc" and do another.
If it shows a sense of entitlement to object to that then I think it is a good thing.

Actually it was fruit and s. Get your facts straight.

She probably isn't allowed to eat the food the children have, so why shouldn't she eat her own?

I mug the kids in the corridors of food. I'm partial to fruit pastilles.

I had a piece of birthday cake at breakfast time in the nursery where I work and very nice it was too. My charges had toast.
Shall I resign on Monday morning?

I hope it wasn't melting. Messy, urrgh...

As a lowly paid TA, I'm sorry to say I can't afford to buy children ice-cream on my salary! Also having been at school for 9 hours, I'd say if I had an ice cream, I'd bloody well deserve (well I wouldn't eat itvas I can't stand ice cream).

I was selling them after school to the little darlings today!

OP YABU!

My gut feeling is... I bet someone bought a box in for staff to share as a treat on a summers day and she had been so busy all day that she hadn't eaten hers. After school club was the closest thing to a sit down she was going to get all day... so someone on the staff team arranged for it to be brought over.

My TA used to run the playtime 'support group' so I (or other members of staff) used to organise that staffroom time treats were delivered to the room she worked in. Otherwise she missed out!

Every TA I have ever met has worked their blimmin socks off for a pittance, I would never begrudge them a measly ice lolly. Children know they can't always have the same as an adult.

This has inspired me to take a box of ice creams in for the school staff next week so thanks op.

Oh heavens above. We work so hard for the ch and YABU. Its this kind of attitude which really pisses me off. So what she had an ice lolly. The kids were fed and watered, cared for, so where is the problem?

Working with ch especially in the heat is draining beyond belief, I think we should have a sugar allowance.

If this is the worst you can come up with then I suggest you should be bloody grateful and buying all the staff an enormous pack of lollies.

P.S pure purple I did the same on wed. Do you think resignation is enough or should we parade ourselves through the streets and engage in self flagellation?

I agree that she's an adult and should not be told what she is or isn't allowed to eat in the staff room - by the school or the govt.

However, I think she was being really mean to eat an ice lolly when she was with the kids - she could have had a drink, piece of fruit etc

Kids can't always have what everyone else has - however, IMO that does not exempt anyone showing consideration & good manners. I would never eat an ice lolly, on a hot day, in front of small children - it's just MEAN.

Yeah, TA's do a good job & they aren't well paid, often not fully appreciated etc etc - it does not prevent them from waiting half an hour to have an ice lolly....