Friday, April 28, 2006

Canadians? Pucking figs

And people say Americans are ignorant. The kid wasn't even squatting or scooping up rice with his fingers.

Filipino table etiquette punished at local school
Lunch monitor tells student his eating habits are "disgusting"
BY ANDY BLATCHFORD
The Chronicle
A Roxboro woman has filed a formal complaint with a local school board after her son was disciplined by a lunch program monitor at Ecole Lalande for eating in what she says is a customary Filipino manner.
Luc Cagadoc's table behaviour is traditionally Filipino; he fills his spoon by pushing the food on his plate with a fork, his mother, Maria Theresa Gallardo, says.
But after being punished by his school's lunch program monitor more than 10 times this year for his mealtime conduct, including his technique, the seven-year-old told Gallardo last week that he was too embarrassed to eat his dinner.
"Mommy, I don't want to eat anymore," Gallardo says Luc told her at the kitchen table April 11. "My teacher is telling me that eating with a spoon and fork is yucky and disgusting."

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