What kind of eating utensils are used at your kids schools?

Hi Kim, When I went to school, we had silver forks and spoons, but NO knives. I think that the schools don't think that far ahead with how are these kids suppose to eat these things without a fork. lol I think maybe the little girl if there wasn't a lot of syrup should have tried to eat the pancake with her fingers. Or maybe she could have held the pancake down with her fingers and cut it. Maybe the school could have given out two forks one for holding down while cutting with the other one. I would find the cook and make a suggestion about the mini pancakes, you can make them if you have pancake batter. lol

I was voluteering at my daughter sachool on Thursday and I notice that they do teach the kids how to use plastic knives especially because of what they we're having for lunch. But they are strictly supervised when doing it. My daughters school was serving them salisbury steak and the kids was having a problem eating it and was tryingto use they're spoon to cut the steak. But the teacher and I help them by using the knives(plastic) and once they're finish cutting they're food we took the knives for them.

The schools have gone way over board. My grandson is in high school and they have those sporks to eat with. what real damage can a plastic knife do? A pencil is much more dangerous and they are allowed in the schools. A pencil is sharp too. A plastic knife has no sharp edges. Sometimes the schools have no common sense.

I think if i remember right our school uses thoes plastic sporks... now try eating with those! oh i guess I lied... those they dont' use anymore... they only get spoons and forks also.. heck my opinion... a fork is more dangerous than one of those knives. It is sad... can you help her?

One idea was that they could at least allow knifes that are as sharp/dull as butter knifes. C'mon their are alot more ways peope can kill eachother and what says that banning knifes will stop them from bringing their own. Also, its not nice to force a little girl to eat a damn pankake with a plastic spoon, would have been nice if someone could have cutten the pankake to sn small enought pieces. If you can have a plastic spoon, why not a plastic knife, the whole thing is retarded.

Schools have gone overboard on a lot of things. The school systems have way too much authority and time on their hands. The educational system in this country is a joke anyway, and most of the people running it don't have enough common sense to find their butts with both hands. School officials try to cure the headaches by cutting off the heads. The high school where my step-daughter attends is the world's worst. They don't want the kids coming to school sick, and if the kids are at school and start to cough a little or something, parents have to go pick them up. Yet when you let the kid stay home because they are sick, the school officials ask you all kinds of questions about it, and they even have an automatic system that calls your house about 6 pm with a recording that your kid wasn't at school today, and if you don't answer the phone and listen to the entire message, it keeps dialing your number until you do. The schools systems suck and they need to be overhauled.