I love a good food fight as much as the next man. And I think that kids will, on occasion, have fun in ways that we would not always prefer. Lord knows I did. I recall a month of high school where we terrorized the cafeteria by catching an apple on a fork (try it, its oddly fun) from greater and greater distances. What we discovered was that at about 20 feet the velocity needed to get the apple to the fork caused the apple to explode on contact.
But for all of that, if the school had said “don*t do that, and clean up your mess” I would have lept to the task. Not so for the kids in Memphis apparently. Seems that “Meatloaf Day” got a little crazy.
“Given an opportunity first to apologize for their behavior and help with the cleanup, most of the class refused to cooperate,” school spokesman Vince McGaskill said.
Parents, I will ask this question again. What kind of world do you expect to retire in when you don*t teach your kids the basic premise that we are responsible for our own actions? Throw some meatloaf, then you get to clean it up. If you didn*t expect to clean it up yourself, then keep it on your plate. Personally, it might have been worth it to be in an honest to goodness food fight, but I*d expect to be manning a mop when it was over.
