Summer Birthdays (was:Re: Missed a trick)

[Cindy C.]

Jo wrote:


> Jo S. who never realized that the cupcakes were stale and thought 
> that it was her own bitterness over never being the birthday girl.

ROFL!

Some teachers in my kids' school seem to be trying to kill the whole
in-class birthday celebration.  What with 20+ birthdays to celebrate,
plus a party for every major holiday, plus the disruption and the mess
and the hyperactivity-brought-on-by-sugar-consupmtion and the peanut
allergies and the candles and the *fire* . . .  it gets to be a bit much.

One teacher has taken to having the children all draw a picture of a
cake for the birthday child on bright construction paper rather than
allow real cupcakes.

Now that *would* taste bitter!

Cindy -- whose birthday fell in the middle of an Arizona summer, and
it was just way too *hot* for something involving candles