Filipino kid in Canada punished for eating with spoon and fork

[otis]

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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 said 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.�

When he eats with both a spoon and fork, instead of only one utensil, the Grade 2
student said the lunch monitor moves him to a table to sit by himself.

see:
http://www.westislandchronicle.com/p...noArticle=6063

[brian_d]

Must be located in some French speaking Canadian province.

[filipinoako2000200]

wow what a!!!!

[Freeza]

Must be located in some French speaking Canadian province.

like quebec so what about the frenchy is their something unique about their culture that eating with spoon and fork is such pain in the ass

[tolstoi]

UNSA MAN DIAY GAMITON SA MGA CANADIAN INIG KAON...LUWAG??...bisan asa na restaurant naa man gyud na ang spoon and fork..pakapinana paman gani ug table knife.

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[eelssej_]

this is what we call racial discrimination...

tsk tsk tsk..

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