Boy's eating habits lead to international protest

[Hyperion]

LOL.

The way seven-year-old Montreal student Luc Cagadoc eats his lunch has led to an international protest.

Luc used to eat his lunch at his school with a fork and spoon, until one day his teacher told him it was wrong.

According to Luc, the way she said it wasn't nice. "She said, I'm disgusting, I'm a pig, I'm a clown by the way I'm eating," said the young Montrealer.

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I don't see how using a fork and spoon together is disgusting. I must be missing something.

[Kidwaiy]

That's weird, I don't really get what is wrong either. I think the teacher should not be so rude and let the guy eat however he want's.

[Snippy]

I don't see what was wrong with it either. I could understand maybe if he was rapidly shoveling the food into his mouth with both utensils, chewing with his mouth open, making noises or a mess but just using a fork and spoon? It seems more likely to me that either that teacher is racist or that is one extremely tough military elementary school.

[alien]

I don't see what was wrong with it either. I could understand maybe if he was rapidly shoveling the food into his mouth with both utensils, chewing with his mouth open, making noises or a mess but just using a fork and spoon? It seems more likely to me that either that teacher is racist or that is one extremely tough military elementary school.

really...
i had to eat with a sppon and fork because i wouldnt chew food (braces got tightened.. i think.. i dunno..) and my friends where like "thats weird" but i didnt get yelled at...

its horrible how the kid is getting in trouble just for eating..i would be like "Let me see how you eat" then when she eats "canadian"style i would be like up in her 'grill' being like "no thats wrong, you arnt eating right" but then i would get in trouble...

its still horrible

[BeDeviled]

That's because he was using his spoon instead of a knife. I think the teacher and the principal who backs her up is quite anal retentive over something like that.

And when my step dad came up here he though all of us just used a fork, fork for eating the same fork to cut with... quite funny since that's how he eats too.

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[Snippy]

*gasp!* What kind of a teacher goes around giving knives to little kids?! What a sick sick person she is.

[BeDeviled]

*gasp!* What kind of a teacher goes around giving knives to little kids?! What a sick sick person she is.

I remember when I was living in Edmonton, there was a big deal with a student who brought a plastic knife to school to cut his apple, since knives where not allowed.

[Snippy]

Pppfft! Ooooh a plastic knife! He's going to high jack the school!
C'mon a kid could do more damage with a pencil, or safety scisors for that matter. But still if some schools were going to make such a big deal over a plastic knife why would this teacher be getting mad that he wasn't using one?

[ahoteinrun]

*gasp!* What kind of a teacher goes around giving knives to little kids?! What a sick sick person she is.

I remember when I was living in Edmonton, there was a big deal with a student who brought a plastic knife to school to cut his apple, since knives where not allowed.

Definately different schools then I went to in Edmonton. Because a plastic knife, or even a butter knife wouldn't have been a big deal. My high school (Scona) was the only high school without security in Edmonton though... *sighs*

[BeDeviled]

*gasp!* What kind of a teacher goes around giving knives to little kids?! What a sick sick person she is.

I remember when I was living in Edmonton, there was a big deal with a student who brought a plastic knife to school to cut his apple, since knives where not allowed.

Definately different schools then I went to in Edmonton. Because a plastic knife, or even a butter knife wouldn't have been a big deal. My high school (Scona) was the only high school without security in Edmonton though... *sighs*

It was sometime after my time, I went to O'Leary in 89-91 and we use to practice our knife throwing skills during spares or when we were skippin... ummm probably why they had a no knife policy in other schools later on.

Don't know if it also came before or after the stabbing at Ross Sheppard High School, if there was one, I know of an incident involving a weapon in the early-mid 90's. pretty sure it was a stabbing though.

[_jade_em_]

Good gods, that's ridiculous. It isn't the teacher's business what eating utensils her student uses. She's paid to teach kids english, maths, science, etc., not how to eat

And does Canadian law actually specifically say that the only way to eat is with a knife and fork? o_o;

[jrtman]

I wonder if the kid was using his spoon to scoop up food and then placing his fork over the the top to keep stuff from falling off. I could see how a teacher would tell someone to stop doing that if they were sticking both the spoon and fork in their mouth at the same time.

[Snippy]

I really doubt it. Although I do have an odd hatred for spoons I wouldn't care if someone else was using one.... but two spoons on the other hand and there would be Hell to pay! Hell I tell you!

[Mimi]

I feel that boy's pain.

I was raised to eat properly with platterware. So, whenever my friends and I go out to eat and get something--like pizza--and they see that I'm eating it with a fork and knife, they always... always ask, "You eat your pizza with a fork and knife?"

"Yes, yes I do," I say.

The poor boy is going to go through life being a proper little diner, but he will never avoid the stupid questions people will ask him.

Stay strong, boy! Stay strong.

[Paul]

I feel that boy's pain.

I was raised to eat properly with platterware. So, whenever my friends and I go out to eat and get something--like pizza--and they see that I'm eating it with a fork and knife, they always... always ask, "You eat your pizza with a fork and knife?"

I do that for about 1/2 of the slice. And then I pick it up and use my hand.