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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.babble.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Strollerderby : backpack</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/backpack/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: backpack</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>Bag of Feces Sent Home in Kid's Backpack</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/23/bag-of-feces-sent-home-in-kid-s-backpack.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:05:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:198401</guid><dc:creator>JeanneSager</dc:creator><slash:comments>8</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=198401</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/23/bag-of-feces-sent-home-in-kid-s-backpack.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/04/Ilovepoop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/04/Ilovepoop.jpg" alt="" align="right" border="0" width="234" height="175" hspace="4" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; As &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/22/can-we-talk-about-the-word-quot-panties-quot.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Madeline pointed out yesterday&lt;/a&gt;, the word &amp;quot;panties,&amp;quot; is shudder-tastic. I&amp;#39;ve found three worse words - at least used in succession, and when referring to the contents of a little kid&amp;#39;s backpack.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bag of feces.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yup, a kindergartner came home from school this week with a big ol&amp;#39; bag of dung in his backpack.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.witn.com/watercooler/headlines/43432967.html" target="_blank"&gt;Inside, his dad says,&lt;/a&gt; was a note from the teacher that read &lt;span class="headlines" id="storyText"&gt;&amp;quot;This little turd was on the floor in my room.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What??? This child is five and apparently had an accident in the classroom. I repeat, this child is five. Accidents happen (come on parents, sing the &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000G0O5F0/?tag=Babble-20" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Elmo&amp;#39;s Potty Time&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; song). For a teacher to make an issue of it to begin with shows she does not belong in a kindergarten classroom (or, perhaps, any classroom). Kids need to realize there&amp;#39;s no shame in accidents and taught that they can always ask the teacher to use the bathroom. If this was a habit, the teacher might even be wise to talk to the school psychologist about the incidents, as elementary age kids &lt;a href="http://pediatrics.about.com/od/weeklyquestion/a/04_potty_pblms.htm" target="_blank"&gt;whose potty training regresses&lt;/a&gt; are often displaying signs of stress, illness or even abuse. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bagging it up and sending it home is particularly heinous because, let&amp;#39;s face it, this is POOP we&amp;#39;re talking about. Human waste. Excrement. Should I continue? The school says they&amp;#39;re &amp;quot;looking into it,&amp;quot; but I&amp;#39;d say they need to look at flushing this teacher out of their system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do you say, Babble readers?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Image: &lt;a href="http://www.poopreport.com/BMnewswire/december_inbox.html" target="_blank"&gt;PoopReport&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related Posts:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/09/everyone-poops-the-movie.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Everyone Poops: The Movie?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/20/high-school-coach-fired-for-appearing-in-playboy.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;High School Coach Fired for Appearing in Playboy &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/18/home-birth-a-right-or-a-must.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Home Birth: A Right or a Must?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/16/breastfeeding-debates-just-a-tempest-in-a-sippy-cup.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Breastfeeding Debates: Just a Tempest in a Sippy Cup?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=198401" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/education/default.aspx">education</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/school/default.aspx">school</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/toilet+training/default.aspx">toilet training</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/potty+training/default.aspx">potty training</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/potty/default.aspx">potty</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/teaching/default.aspx">teaching</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/teacher/default.aspx">teacher</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/kindergarten/default.aspx">kindergarten</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/Jeanne+Sager/default.aspx">Jeanne Sager</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/disgusting/default.aspx">disgusting</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/backpack/default.aspx">backpack</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/regression/default.aspx">regression</category></item><item><title>4 Year Old Brings Pot To School, School Bans Backpacks</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/12/4-year-old-brings-pot-to-school-school-bans-backpacks.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:185432</guid><dc:creator>Brett Singer</dc:creator><slash:comments>6</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=185432</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/12/4-year-old-brings-pot-to-school-school-bans-backpacks.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/03/backpack.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/03/backpack.jpg" alt="A Florida pre-school has banned backpacks because a 4 year old brought pot to school. Can&amp;#39;t make this stuff up, folks." align="right" border="0" height="194" hspace="4" width="194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;When I was young and went to summer camp, people were always amazed when I said I was from the Bronx. I remember one kid actually took two steps back when I told him. Because people from the Bronx, you know, they were scary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly those guys didn&amp;#39;t know what they were talking about. The really dangerous kids are from Florida. The 4 year olds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check this out:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A 4-year-old at a Tamarac preschool caused a furor when police say he pulled a plastic bag of pot from his book bag and casually told a classmate, &amp;quot;That&amp;#39;s my brother&amp;#39;s weed.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you imagine? What do you say to that? How does a 4 year old even know what &amp;quot;weed&amp;quot; is? His older brother, who is 21, must have told him when he hid his baggies in junior&amp;#39;s bookbag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pot, by the way, is &amp;quot;scheduled to be destroyed.&amp;quot; Wouldn&amp;#39;t want to rush into anything, guys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&amp;#39;s the funny part. The school, in a reaction that I like to call &amp;quot;I have a headache THEREFORE I have a brain tumor&amp;quot;, has banned bookbags. All of them. Because clearly, the backpacks are the problem. (&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000067R84/?tag=babble.com-20" target="_blank"&gt;Dora the Explorer&lt;/a&gt; had no comment.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/tamarac/sfl-bn-0311youngster-pot,0,223477.story" target="_blank"&gt;Sun Sentinel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://blogs.trb.com/features/family/parenting/blog/2009/03/preschooler_carries_pot_in_boo.html" target="_blank"&gt;TRB.com&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://www.detentionslip.org/2009/03/preschooler-carries-pot-in-bookbag.html" target="_blank"&gt;DetentionSlip&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.parentdish.com/2009/03/12/4-year-old-brings-pot-to-preschool/" target="_blank"&gt;ParentDish &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Image: &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000067R84/?tag=babble.com-20" target="_blank"&gt;Amazon &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read more:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/11/the-dr-phil-and-octomom-show.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;The Dr. Phil And OctoMom Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/09/evil-father-goes-on-trial.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Evil Father Goes On Trial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/11/jon-stewart-and-his-pal-dora.aspx"&gt;Jon Stewart and His Pal Dora&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/02/27/woman-trades-two-kids-for-bird.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Woman Trades Two Kids For Bird&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/02/18/teen-dad-s-father-wearing-halloween-mask-in-public.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Teen Dad&amp;#39;s Father Wearing Halloween Mask In Public&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/06/parents-say-hospital-killed-son-to-take-his-organs.aspx"&gt;Parents Say Hospital Took Son&amp;#39;s Organs Without Consent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2009/03/09/dora-the-explorer-gets-a-sexy-makeover-photo.aspx"&gt;Dora The Explorer Gets A Sexy Makeover (Photo)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/04/interview-disney-princesses-toy-designer.aspx"&gt;Interview - Disney Princesses Toy Designer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=185432" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/news/default.aspx">news</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/law/default.aspx">law</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/crime/default.aspx">crime</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/jail/default.aspx">jail</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/drugs/default.aspx">drugs</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/Dora/default.aspx">Dora</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/wtf/default.aspx">wtf</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/pot/default.aspx">pot</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/bizarre/default.aspx">bizarre</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/brothers/default.aspx">brothers</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/marijuana/default.aspx">marijuana</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/legal/default.aspx">legal</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/weed/default.aspx">weed</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/Brett+Singer/default.aspx">Brett Singer</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/backpack/default.aspx">backpack</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/4+year+old+brings+pot+to+school/default.aspx">4 year old brings pot to school</category></item></channel></rss>