Mom who baked cookies for school bus riders for 15 years shut down by complaint

[Theowl32]

Mother who baked cookies for children on school bus for 15 years ordered to stop after anonymous complaint
Anne Tabat ordered to stop baking cookies for school children following anonymous complaint
The mother-of-three had baked the treats for 15 years
The Minnesota resident said she's never had a straight answer about the specific details of the complaint
By ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER and DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 15:41 EST, 21 December 2013 | UPDATED: 15:41 EST, 21 December 2013


A Minnesota mother dubbed the 'Cookie Lady' who has been baking treats for the kids on her children's bus for 15 years has been shut down by an anonymous complaint. Every Friday, Anne Tabat has met the school bus in her subdivision with a basket of cookies. It began as a thank you to the bus driver. And, Tabat said, she couldn't give the driver a cookie without giving one to every child on the bus.


Tabat said the cookies were also a way to get to know her neighbors. 'I didn't live in the suburbs until I turned 40,' she told Minnesota Public Radio.'Look at the way these houses are designed here. They're not designed with a friendly neighborliness community in mind. I haven't been in most of the houses in my neighborhood.

'People live such busy lives; you don't talk to your neighbors, you don't know your neighbors.'


But for the first time in many years, Tabat wasn't at the bus stop yesterday. She received a phone call from the school this week telling her someone had complained and that she should cease and desist the dispensing of cookies. She said she never really had a straight answer about the specifics of the complaint.


'She (the woman who complained) didn’t bother to know me, the bus driver, or anything about the cookie-bus thing. I don’t care if I get shut down, the kids are going to live,' she said.

'I woke up the day after this and thought ‘let’s have a protest, let’s sign a petition,’ but the person this would fall back on would be the bus driver.

'Whatever you do I don’t want anything to stick to the bus driver because this was meant to thank the bus driver.'

Tabat said it was soon time to end the tradition - the last of her three kids will graduate high school soon - but she wanted to stop baking on her own terms.

'I know all these well-meaning people who do kindly gestures but they backfire because they’re not thinking about things like that. That’s not what this is about,' she said.


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What are the odds that the anonymous moron is some intolerant, arrogant left wing, know it all bitch?

 

[Spiderman]

Sorry but the school cannot ban a private citizen from giving cookies to people.

 

[Jarlaxle]

No, but they can prevent her from setting foot on the bus.

 

[Pennywise]

She doesn't know the details of the complaint, but we know one thing for certain, it wasn't any right wing conservative bitching about free cookies. That much is a given.

 

[Granny]

Maybe she was one cookie short and that child's mother was pissed that her child was slighted?

 

[Vox]

She doesn't know the details of the complaint, but we know one thing for certain, it wasn't any right wing conservative bitching about free cookies. That much is a given.

true.
some leftard nutjob, that's for sure.

 

[Spiderman]

No, but they can prevent her from setting foot on the bus.

Then one of the other kids can take the cookies on the bus.

Who do these fucking school board people think they are anyway?

 

[Katzndogz]

One person, with a single complaint can control quite a few people. One person.

 

[Sunni Man]

Welcome to today's PC nation.

Where just 1 complaint can shut down anything. ....

 

[paperview]

She doesn't know the details of the complaint, but we know one thing for certain, it wasn't any right wing conservative bitching about free cookies. That much is a given.

true.
some leftard nutjob, that's for sure.

Or maybe some parent who has a kid with a food allergy.

 

[Vox]

She doesn't know the details of the complaint, but we know one thing for certain, it wasn't any right wing conservative bitching about free cookies. That much is a given.

true.
some leftard nutjob, that's for sure.

Or maybe some parent who has a kid with a food allergy.

under the PC gestapo rules you shut down EVERYBODY's fun, because your kid is too stupid to know he/she has allergies and can not take a cookie.

Typical leftardism - if I can not have one, nobody will.

your reasoning is the exact example why leftardism is a totalitarian mental disorder.

 

[Theowl32]

true.
some leftard nutjob, that's for sure.

Or maybe some parent who has a kid with a food allergy.

under the PC gestapo rules you shut down EVERYBODY's fun, because your kid is too stupid to know he/she has allergies and can not take a cookie.

Typical leftardism - if I can not have one, nobody will.

your reasoning is the exact example why leftardism is a totalitarian mental disorder.

The same types that are all offended cause Mcdonalds gives away toys with their happy meals.

An example of these great threats to their precious little kids, and why McDonalds in San Fransisco have put a ban on McDonalds giving away these horrible toys to toddlers.

 

[Bloodrock44]

She doesn't know the details of the complaint, but we know one thing for certain, it wasn't any right wing conservative bitching about free cookies. That much is a given.

true.
some leftard nutjob, that's for sure.

Or maybe some parent who has a kid with a food allergy.

So if the kid has a food allergy he knows not to eat the cookies. But no, they had to ruin it for everyone.

 

[paperview]

true.
some leftard nutjob, that's for sure.

Or maybe some parent who has a kid with a food allergy.

under the PC gestapo rules you shut down EVERYBODY's fun, because your kid is too stupid to know he/she has allergies and can not take a cookie.

Typical leftardism - if I can not have one, nobody will.

your reasoning is the exact example why leftardism is a totalitarian mental disorder.

I didn't see any notation of ages on the school bus.

This could be a 1st or 2nd grader we are talking about that is being given food without the parents permission.

Young kids aren't always known for their superior logic abilities to say no when all around them are munching on a treat.

And even then,

An allergic reaction to peanuts killed a 12-year-old Mercer Island girl who ate a neighbor's homemade cookie over the weekend.


Kristine Kastner was given a chocolate-chip cookie after her mother checked, and didn't notice the finely chopped nuts, the King County Medical Examiner's Office reported.
She ate the cookie at 4:15 p.m. Saturday, had a severe reaction that included constriction of her breathing passages, and was pronounced dead less than two hours later at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue.

Local News | Allergic Reaction To Cookie Kills Girl | Seattle Times Newspaper

If something happened to one of those kids, what kind of consequences do you think the school would be facing?

Take your best guess.

 

[Jughead]

Mother who baked cookies for children on school bus for 15 years ordered to stop after anonymous complaint
Anne Tabat ordered to stop baking cookies for school children following anonymous complaint
The mother-of-three had baked the treats for 15 years

Giving cookies to children is a part of our culture. As a child, I recall the moms of many of my childhood friends would routinely give us cookies. Sadly, this part of our culture is slowly eroding as we've seen with the school bus case.

 

[Luissa]

Mother who baked cookies for children on school bus for 15 years ordered to stop after anonymous complaint

Anne Tabat ordered to stop baking cookies for school children following anonymous complaint

The mother-of-three had baked the treats for 15 years

The Minnesota resident said she's never had a straight answer about the specific details of the complaint

By ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER and DAILY MAIL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 15:41 EST, 21 December 2013 | UPDATED: 15:41 EST, 21 December 2013





A Minnesota mother dubbed the 'Cookie Lady' who has been baking treats for the kids on her children's bus for 15 years has been shut down by an anonymous complaint. Every Friday, Anne Tabat has met the school bus in her subdivision with a basket of cookies. It began as a thank you to the bus driver. And, Tabat said, she couldn't give the driver a cookie without giving one to every child on the bus.





Tabat said the cookies were also a way to get to know her neighbors. 'I didn't live in the suburbs until I turned 40,' she told Minnesota Public Radio.'Look at the way these houses are designed here. They're not designed with a friendly neighborliness community in mind. I haven't been in most of the houses in my neighborhood.



'People live such busy lives; you don't talk to your neighbors, you don't know your neighbors.'





But for the first time in many years, Tabat wasn't at the bus stop yesterday. She received a phone call from the school this week telling her someone had complained and that she should cease and desist the dispensing of cookies. She said she never really had a straight answer about the specifics of the complaint.





'She (the woman who complained) didn’t bother to know me, the bus driver, or anything about the cookie-bus thing. I don’t care if I get shut down, the kids are going to live,' she said.



'I woke up the day after this and thought ‘let’s have a protest, let’s sign a petition,’ but the person this would fall back on would be the bus driver.



'Whatever you do I don’t want anything to stick to the bus driver because this was meant to thank the bus driver.'



Tabat said it was soon time to end the tradition - the last of her three kids will graduate high school soon - but she wanted to stop baking on her own terms.



'I know all these well-meaning people who do kindly gestures but they backfire because they’re not thinking about things like that. That’s not what this is about,' she said.





Read more: Mother who baked cookies for children on school bus for 15 years ordered to stop after anonymous complaint | Mail Online

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What are the odds that the anonymous moron is some intolerant, arrogant left wing, know it all bitch?

Probably not. Have you met a right wing bible thumping PTA mom?

And at my son's school you have to buy the cookies because a kid ate a cookie with peanuts not knowing it did had died a few years back. They want to protect themselves.


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[Vox]

Or maybe some parent who has a kid with a food allergy.

under the PC gestapo rules you shut down EVERYBODY's fun, because your kid is too stupid to know he/she has allergies and can not take a cookie.

Typical leftardism - if I can not have one, nobody will.

your reasoning is the exact example why leftardism is a totalitarian mental disorder.

I didn't see any notation of ages on the school bus.

This could be a 1st or 2nd grader we are talking about that is being given food without the parents permission.

Young kids aren't always known for their superior logic abilities to say no when all around them are munching on a treat.

And even then,

An allergic reaction to peanuts killed a 12-year-old Mercer Island girl who ate a neighbor's homemade cookie over the weekend.


Kristine Kastner was given a chocolate-chip cookie after her mother checked, and didn't notice the finely chopped nuts, the King County Medical Examiner's Office reported.
She ate the cookie at 4:15 p.m. Saturday, had a severe reaction that included constriction of her breathing passages, and was pronounced dead less than two hours later at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue.

Local News | Allergic Reaction To Cookie Kills Girl | Seattle Times Newspaper

If something happened to one of those kids, what kind of consequences do you think the school would be facing?

Take your best guess.

a 1st or a 2nd grader is pretty capable of understanding that he/she is not permitted to eat the cookie because he/she might die.
If you explain it to the kid and not guard the 5-6-7 yo from the very reality of his condition FOR LIFE.

And the whole bus of kids and the driver and the mom who baked the cookies should not be punished because one kid MIGHT have food allergy and his parents are too stupid to explain to him that he can not have a cookie if he has allergy.

that is the whole point here - the PC gestapo - because one possibility of inconvenience, ALL have to suffer.

 

[Luissa]

under the PC gestapo rules you shut down EVERYBODY's fun, because your kid is too stupid to know he/she has allergies and can not take a cookie.



Typical leftardism - if I can not have one, nobody will.



your reasoning is the exact example why leftardism is a totalitarian mental disorder.

I didn't see any notation of ages on the school bus.



This could be a 1st or 2nd grader we are talking about that is being given food without the parents permission.



Young kids aren't always known for their superior logic abilities to say no when all around them are munching on a treat.



And even then,

An allergic reaction to peanuts killed a 12-year-old Mercer Island girl who ate a neighbor's homemade cookie over the weekend.





Kristine Kastner was given a chocolate-chip cookie after her mother checked, and didn't notice the finely chopped nuts, the King County Medical Examiner's Office reported.

She ate the cookie at 4:15 p.m. Saturday, had a severe reaction that included constriction of her breathing passages, and was pronounced dead less than two hours later at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue.

Local News | Allergic Reaction To Cookie Kills Girl | Seattle Times Newspaper



If something happened to one of those kids, what kind of consequences do you think the school would be facing?



Take your best guess.

a 1st or a 2nd grader is pretty capable of understanding that he/she is not permitted to eat the cookie because he/she might die.

If you explain it to the kid and not guard the 5-6-7 yo from the very reality of his condition FOR LIFE.



And the whole bus of kids and the driver and the mom who baked the cookies should not be punished because one kid MIGHT have food allergy and his parents are too stupid to explain to him that he can not have a cookie if he has allergy.



that is the whole point here - the PC gestapo - because one possibility of inconvenience, ALL have to suffer.

You don't have kids, do you?


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[Vox]

I didn't see any notation of ages on the school bus.



This could be a 1st or 2nd grader we are talking about that is being given food without the parents permission.



Young kids aren't always known for their superior logic abilities to say no when all around them are munching on a treat.



And even then,



Local News | Allergic Reaction To Cookie Kills Girl | Seattle Times Newspaper



If something happened to one of those kids, what kind of consequences do you think the school would be facing?



Take your best guess.

a 1st or a 2nd grader is pretty capable of understanding that he/she is not permitted to eat the cookie because he/she might die.

If you explain it to the kid and not guard the 5-6-7 yo from the very reality of his condition FOR LIFE.



And the whole bus of kids and the driver and the mom who baked the cookies should not be punished because one kid MIGHT have food allergy and his parents are too stupid to explain to him that he can not have a cookie if he has allergy.



that is the whole point here - the PC gestapo - because one possibility of inconvenience, ALL have to suffer.

You don't have kids, do you?


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yes, I do. But not all kids are spoiled brainless idiots like the ones the mothers in this country presume them to be.

instead of banning the fun for everybody the idiot mom who complained could have just asked the mom who bakes not to use the ingredients which cause allergy.

If she would think not only about herself.

If the issue is even food allergy, which is just speculation.

 

[Connery]

under the PC gestapo rules you shut down EVERYBODY's fun, because your kid is too stupid to know he/she has allergies and can not take a cookie.

Typical leftardism - if I can not have one, nobody will.

your reasoning is the exact example why leftardism is a totalitarian mental disorder.

I didn't see any notation of ages on the school bus.

This could be a 1st or 2nd grader we are talking about that is being given food without the parents permission.

Young kids aren't always known for their superior logic abilities to say no when all around them are munching on a treat.

And even then,

An allergic reaction to peanuts killed a 12-year-old Mercer Island girl who ate a neighbor's homemade cookie over the weekend.


Kristine Kastner was given a chocolate-chip cookie after her mother checked, and didn't notice the finely chopped nuts, the King County Medical Examiner's Office reported.
She ate the cookie at 4:15 p.m. Saturday, had a severe reaction that included constriction of her breathing passages, and was pronounced dead less than two hours later at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue.

Local News | Allergic Reaction To Cookie Kills Girl | Seattle Times Newspaper

If something happened to one of those kids, what kind of consequences do you think the school would be facing?

Take your best guess.

a 1st or a 2nd grader is pretty capable of understanding that he/she is not permitted to eat the cookie because he/she might die.
If you explain it to the kid and not guard the 5-6-7 yo from the very reality of his condition FOR LIFE.

And the whole bus of kids and the driver and the mom who baked the cookies should not be punished because one kid MIGHT have food allergy and his parents are too stupid to explain to him that he can not have a cookie if he has allergy.

that is the whole point here - the PC gestapo - because one possibility of inconvenience, ALL have to suffer.

As much as an inconvenience I find this policy apparently there is a need, although I do find it very curious that the same kids who have allergies eat lunch in very close proximity to the rest of the school population.