the 2012 trivial drivel thread

[Teacher]

I don't like fat kids.

I don't like the parents who let them get that way. Parents control the food, it's up to them to set boundaries & lead by example.

The parents of an extremely obese girl in my class absolutely disgusted me. She was a third-grader and weighed a little over 200 pounds. Her head alone was bigger than at least 2 times as mine...probably larger than that. She couldn't wear shoes that tied like the other kids. Had to be Velcro or slip-ons since she couldn't bend over far enough to tie them. Really a sweet, intelligent child.

BUT her dad brought her breakfast & lunch to school from McD's every day. Whenever we had "party day" (Christmas, Valentine's Day, etc.), Dad would always be there at the end of the day to get all the left-overs for her - one time it was an entire cake with sprinkles on it (kids always brought too much junk). Then she would sit in the teacher's lounge before she went home and eat it.

He idolized her and wanted to make her happy - his only child. Mom seemed to be completely out of the picture - never saw her. One time I spoke to him as reasonably as possible about health problems, but was put down immediately. After that I started throwing away the left-overs as soon as the party was over. Even with all the love he had for her this was definitely child abuse! Poor children of parents or "parent" like this one.