School Confiscates Cupcakes Decorated with Toy Soldiers

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My point was that the two didn’t hurt me like some would like to have everyone believe.

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I won’t even guess where you got that idea.

Mark my words: either you get a regular amount of fresh fruits and fiber going through your digestive tract, or you will inevitable succumb to the government/contractor conspiracy to afflict you with hemorrhoids.

It is your only hope of frustrating the government's scheme.

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Who is in the best position to decide whether or not a given cupcake is appropriate for a child to consume?

The answer is clearly, and unambiguously, the child's custodial parent. But the parent isn't avaiable to make that decision in the classroom, where the decision has to be left up to the people who act in loco parentis, the teachers and principals.

For my part, I decline to second guess the judgement of professionals into whose care parents put their children, and who are accountable for all of those children's health and well being, not only while in school, but in dealing with events that have taken place in school within those professionals' control.

If the principal says, "no toy soldiers on cupcakes," then so be it.

Mom & Dad can let their children have all the toy soldiers they want on their snacks and desserts at home.

Hear! Hear!

If the subject cupcakes had white icing and it was feared that a black student would be offended should that be grounds for cupcake confiscation?
Either way it's not an issue worthy of a decision or even a second thought.
However, I knew you'd have to find some way to disagree with me no matter how trivial.
Well, you haven't disappointed me and you seem to have made the +r011 happy and that's what it's all about.

Says the boy who lied about the German pirates.

The most reasonable thing would be to remove the soldiers and let the kids eat cake.
What a waste of food,did they throw them away or did the staff secretly eat them??
Would a food bank accept controversial "war cakes"?Or would that be politically incorrect.
Those cakes looked pretty damn good to me.
Where they devil's food or German chocolate?

Oy, that's ridiculous......just let the kiddies play with their toy soldiers and eat their cupcakes!They're not going to grow up top be serial killers because they eat cupcakes with toy soldiers on them.
Honestly. I haven't read through this whole thread so srry if this is repetitive but telling kids not to play with something will only make them play with them more (at home if they can't at school ect).At my school kids weren't allowed to play power rangers bcs it was 'too violent" so kids did it in secret and became obsessed with the damn power rangers.....it became a fad.

I heard that the administrators didn't allow the kids to eat the cupcakes because they believed they would link the World War II soldiers guns to the Sandy Hook shooting. Uh, hello people, a kid is not going to make those connections! They don't think about that stuff!

The school called the mother of the kid who brought the cupcakes, and she told the school to remove the soldiers and let the kids eat the cupcakes. And her husband said, "I believe that she might have used more colorful language..."

Not that I’m condoning removing the plastic solders but, yes, removing them and letting the kids eat them would have been the thing to do.


You might be on to something there. They might have confiscated them for their own indulgence under the pretense of “child welfare”. I’m sure wouldn’t have been the first time something like that was done.


No no, better to let people starve than to risk offending that one in a million that elects to be offended.



That reminds me; when I was in the 7th grade a few kids got in trouble for playing with squirt-guns in class. The principal (he was stupid for starters) made a big deal out of it and expressly forbade anyone from bringing squirt-guns on campus. In a week’s time about 90% of the students of that school brought squirt guns to school and we were always having squirt-gun battles. If yours got confiscated you just buy one that night and bring it in the next day because they are cheap. This was near the end of the school year and it continued on until school was out for the summer.
This was back before the Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook shootings, though. Now they would bring in SWAT teams and the National Guard in to machinegun us all down in the name of child welfare.


I’m surprised they didn’t remove her kids from her for their protection.

They hurt more on the way out.


In all seriousness why cupcakes and toys soldiers? Is it because playing with imagination is such an old fashioned pastime, that the only way they are going to sell toy soldiers, is for decoration?

Really, it's not the kind of thing that is even worthy of questioning.
If the school's administrators have nothing better to do than to wring their hands over pettiness like toy soldiers and cupcakes then their professional and mental competence is highly questionable.

Oh the school yard memories
We would smuggle huge amounts of candy in our tube socks.A kid would get searched now if they had bulges in their socks.It might be a weapon or drugs!!
And we used to sing this song that went;
Glory glory hallelujah,teacher hit me with a ruler,
I met her at the bank with a loaded army tank,
She ain't my teacher no more.
Or
I met her at the door with a loaded 44
She ain't my teacher no more.

Any kid singing that now would be expelled and sent away for some type of evaluation.
We sang it on the playground,in front of the teachers.They didn't care and no one got shot.

I LOVE it!

Really? So if, for example, a school administrator punished a student for putting his GI Joe in a dress because the school "doesn't condone that lifestyle", you're not going to question it?