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[Clodfobble]

*shrug*

If my child's teacher handed him an Oreo without telling me, I'd be pissed. Oh, and so would the parents of the four other students in his class alone who have to eat gluten-free. What's appalling is that teachers have to rely on food bribes to make learning fun because they are shitty teachers.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

*shrug*
...What's appalling is that teachers have to rely on food bribes to make learning fun because they are shitty teachers.

Come on, Clod, where are you getting such damnation of teachers ?

Using an Oreo to demonstrate plate tectonics is not a bribe.
It's a good model that kids at many levels can understand.
If as you say, it also happens to be fun, what's wrong with that ?

And the permission slip just shows the teacher was thinking ahead
about what might happen to the cookies during/after the demonstration.

I thought it was an innovative, inexpensive, and readily available prop
by a conscientious (and maybe well-experienced !) teacher.

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's called Realia.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

It's called Realia.

xoB, thank you for that post. I did not know that word before.
You're right, that's what it is.

But according to Wikipedia, Library Science doesn't seem to recognize "Oreo cookies" as worthy of being in a collection

In any case, I'll try to use "realia" in a sentence some day soon !