Many times in the career of a teacher or a principal, they must respond to a parent who has a complaint or an idea based upon "My child..." As a parent, you should be your child's number one advocate and speak up for him or her. But often times, when considering your statements from the perspective of "My child..." replace those words with "The students..." and try to consider the situation from the school's perspective.
Our decisions have to be made based upon ALL the students of the school, and not just an individual child. The recent decision to disallow anything but pie from our Pie Feast has to be considered from that perspective, in addition to the purpose of the event.
Having a complete breakfast during this event is an awesome occurrence, unless you are in the class that gets just pie. The event was initially intended for the students to gather and share a moment of thanksgiving as a school. As with many events, each year the need to do the Pie Feast a little bit "better" than last year was becoming a reality. The "event" was becoming more important than the purpose.
The purpose of our Pie Feast is to gather as a community and be thankful for the abundance of gifts we have in our lives. I think by scaling the event down, we get closer to the true meaning of the event, which ultimately makes it more valuable for all our students.
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You're Awesome!!! Thank you for "getting it".
Angela
Thank you for bringing back the original purpose of the pie feast. In the last few years it seemed like every class was in some sort of competition with each other and the whole meaning of the feast was forgotten. It was nice to have all classes have only pies this year at the "pie feast"
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