What do first graders eat?

[mashiara13]

The answer, of course, is ladybugs.  I was told by several kids that Ioanna eats the ladybugs she finds at the school yard. She denied it and said it was another kid who eats them on a regular basis, not her. Either way, it's an interesting diet. Bugs have protein, no?

That and several other things I've observed over the past few months speak

Comments

[xraytheenforcer]

Your principal is such an ass. :(

As for bugs -- yeah, a little extra protein can't be bad!

[xraytheenforcer]

Also, re: PM. It seems quite a few users got that PM. You might want to run a serious anti-virus, anti-trojan program just to make sure your rig is uninfected.

[mashiara13]

I'm running my anti-virus program right now, it looks OK so far. I wasn't thinking clearly, I should have never ever clicked on that link. BAD Maria. :(

[the_corbie]

I clicked the link (purely in the interests of research, of course. ;) We had already banned the user by then, but I wondered what it was he was spamming people with). I'm on my work machine, wouldn't have done it from home: but the virus protection and backup here made it safe.

[mashiara13]

What was it anyway? I only got a little box that didn't say much, I took one glance at it and then I closed that tab and started praying. (well, not really.)

[the_corbie]

Some Russian sex site.

[zoeiona]

^ was lucky enough to miss the spam PM.

Regarding the children and eating bugs thing... isn't this quite common? Not normal, of course, but at the same time not unusual. I remember when I was at school hearing about other children eating worms, which seems considerably more disgusting. (My stupid dietary choice at the time was baby leaves from trees not usually considered edible species.)

Basically... I know you've had a difficult cadre of students, but is this particular example just children being children?

[mashiara13]

I had never (to my knowledge) encountered a kid who liked eating bugs but I do know it's not that unusual, or at least I've read about it. It was a first for me and it was more of an eye-rolling moment, even amusing after a while. I did not make a big deal out of it and it made me chuckle on the way home. Definitely a case of children being children, you're right about that.

[uberneedle]

didn't click the link, forwarded to Ran straight away.

*feels msugly sensible*

Lady bugs? tasty? WTF!

[mashiara13]

Don't be smug!!!

You know kids. They'll eat ANYTHING, provided it doesn't come with veggies.

[peadarog]

On this side of the Atlantic, we call those tasty insects "ladybirds". Don't ask me why.

[mashiara13]

I'm confused. Aren't we on the same side of the Atlantic?

Clearly my fine British education in English has all gone down the drain once I started spending too much time with Americans. First my spelling changed, then I started using words differently. But I don't recall ever being taught the term 'ladybird'.

[dalthor]

She now says 'aluminum' instead of 'aluminium' now too!

(I've been corrupting non-native speakers of English for almost four years now! In all honesty her English was much better before she ever met me.)

[peadarog]

You have truly poisoned her. Somebody should call the cops. Er... I mean, the police.