Sandwich bag gets boy excluded from class contest

[Hot Revolver]

It is long so you can read the link. But really what next :neutral:
http://www.nationalpost.com/Sandwic...m_campaign=Feed28National+Post+-+Top+Stories)

A couple in Laval, Que. has sparked a fierce debate over how far schools should go to teach children about environmental responsibility after their six-year-old son was shut out of a kindergarten draw to win a stuffed animal because he had an environmentally unfriendly sandwich bag in his lunchbox.

Marc-André Lanciault said he hadn’t heard of the school’s draw or any environmental policy until his wife, Isabel Théorêt, was making their son Félix a sandwich and he begged them not to put it in a plastic bag.

“He said, ‘No mommy, you can’t do that. Not a Ziploc,’ ” Mr. Lanciault said.
Through tears, the boy told his parents that the school had held a draw to win a stuffed teddy bear and only children who didn’t have any plastic sandwich bags could enter. The family normally uses Tupperware, but it was all in the dishwasher, and so they had packed their son’s ham sandwich in a plastic bag.

When Mr. Lanciault questioned his son’s teacher, she confirmed the school had staged the draw at a lunchtime daycare and that any student with a plastic sandwich bag was excluded. “You know Mr. Lanciault, it’s not very good for the environment,” the teacher told him.

“We have to take care of the our planet and the bags do not decompose well.”
Mr. Lanciault said he objects to the fact that a school would penalize a kindergartner for his parents’ choice to use non-recyclable lunch containers and that his son hadn’t learned any valuable environmental lessons, except to fear plastic bags.

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[purpleshamrock]

Wonder what the stuffed animal is made from and where it was manufactured, gotta be a lot of oil products using exploited Third World labour.

 

[Balerie]

Good one. Beer is on me Auggie.

 

[Pompal 09.]

lol good point! I think most of them are stuffed with polyfil and have synthetic fibres in the fur.......Unless it was made with recycled material........(you'd be amazed at what they're making with recycled water bottles......)

 

[MS S]

Stupidity at its finest. Ziplocs are reusable, and recyclable. Nothing I love better than the self-proclaimed, self-righteous zealots who do not know of what they speak. And the point about what the stuffed animal was made from is right on. Probably made in China using the 'dirtiest' energy on the planet.

 

[Allanas]

One thing though, it teaches/taught the kid that rules are rules. He had a bag in his lunch that excluded him from the chance. I'm surprised in this PC world of ours that he wasn't included anyways and everyone given a teddy bear......