Most parents are accustomed to signing permission slips for their children. Field trips across town or out-of-state, permission to attend school-related functions or to participate in extra-curricular activities are common place and expected. One Pennsylvania mother was shocked when her child brought home a slip from school, requiring her approval to be allowed to eat an Oreo cookie!
The mother took to social media, posting a photograph of the permission slip with the following caption on Twitter: "Insanity. I have to sign a permission slip so my middle-schooler can eat an Oreo." The delicious, cream-filled cookies were being used as part of a school project to demonstrate how tectonic plates move and change the shape of continental land masses over the centuries, with the teacher wanting to use something recognizable to the children to keep their attention and help teach a lesson. The teacher even included the ingredients of the cookies on the back of the permission slip for the parents to read. The students did not have to eat the cookie at the end of the experiment if they did not wish to do so.
With obesity and its accompanying health problems rampant among school children, did the teacher go too far by requiring the parents of students to sign a permission slip just to be able to eat one simple cookie?
Oreo, billed as the "World's Favorite Cookie", was first introduced to the American market in March, 1912, and quickly became the top-selling cookie in the world, which it remains so today.
The mother took to social media, posting a photograph of the permission slip with the following caption on Twitter: "Insanity. I have to sign a permission slip so my middle-schooler can eat an Oreo." The delicious, cream-filled cookies were being used as part of a school project to demonstrate how tectonic plates move and change the shape of continental land masses over the centuries, with the teacher wanting to use something recognizable to the children to keep their attention and help teach a lesson. The teacher even included the ingredients of the cookies on the back of the permission slip for the parents to read. The students did not have to eat the cookie at the end of the experiment if they did not wish to do so.
With obesity and its accompanying health problems rampant among school children, did the teacher go too far by requiring the parents of students to sign a permission slip just to be able to eat one simple cookie?
Oreo, billed as the "World's Favorite Cookie", was first introduced to the American market in March, 1912, and quickly became the top-selling cookie in the world, which it remains so today.