school lunches again!

[Cyrano]

What happened after the first time around with the apple?

Any dinner assistant, teacher, class room assistant that messes with my childrens food would find me going straight to the Head Teacher, School Board , Director of Education, Chair of the Education committee, MSP, MP...... Yes I'm with Richard on this one, you would hear me roar

 

[pokemon_master]

two packets of crisps, a chocolate bar and a bag of sweets every day is mad (and not that uncommon!).

I think I'll be using the smilie quite effectively now..

Anyway, getting back on topic here. I defintely think that the school is going too far on this, and I am sorry to say I didn't get to see what happened last time, although I do remember you saying that. I think it is just wrong that they are dictating what is in people's lunchboxes, I mean granted that there is a healthy eating thing going on recently but to be honest I feel that what goes in a Child's lunchbox should be decided by the parent and child alone. Let them be unhealthy if they want to!!

I would expect them to take it away if it were something really bad (although I would still be mad as it is wrong to go against what people want.) but HAM?! And the whole Red apple thing? This has gone way too far!

I'd contact the headteacher as well as many papers as you can find. Call the Army if you have to!!

P.s. Congrats for being healthy!

 

[Netty]

My advice would be to go straight to the school and see the headmaster. If the school has a healthy food policy then get them to give it to you, in the policy it should say no very red apples and no ham!demand to know how they drew up the policy and who was involved.
If they have no food policy then they have no right going anywhere near your daughters lunchbox at all.
If you have no luck then get straight onto the governors of the school.
I have never heard anything so rediculous in my life.

 

[Sunny Soph]

Its Stupid, i would get to the head master Straight away

 

[Ware Bears]

This is too ridiculous for words.

 

[Lisash]

I'd ask them to lay out exactly what their 'healthy' lunch policy is asap. They have a real nerve making her have a school lunch instead. I know my DS would literally vomit if somebody tried to feed him quiche. He is a very fussy eater and has never had school meals as I know he just wouldn't eat them. A work colleague of mine has had several run ins with her daughters school as they are vegetarians and over zealous dinner ladies have forced her poor child to eat meat. It's all getting a bit ridiculous.

 

[Queenie]

This is just stupid, it makes me fear for my neice who started school in September!

 

[MrsJobba1]

I am a teacher, and Im so sorry that your dd does not want to go to school. As teachers it is our job to help children and encourage them to want to come. I really cannot believe what your school is doing.

Personally, I would phone and ask for an appointment to see the headteacher to discuss this matter. I would also write a letter to the chair of your school governing body. It is the governors who have the power in a school and you are well within your right to contact them concerning the schools lunch policy.

Please let us know how you get on

 

[catherine]

So it's ok for your DD to eat the bacon in the quiche, but it's not ok for her to eat ham? I would be furious if this type of thing happened at either of my DDs schools. I would definitely go and see the head teacher and get this sorted out! Good luck to you!

 

[shellbell]

I have never heard anything like this before, its terrible. I hope you manage to get this sorted.

 

[Ware Bears]

I can't get the search facility to work. Please put me out of my misery and tell me what was wrong with a red apple.

 

[wideeyes]

According to the school red apples are sweeter than green, which means that they are bad for teeth as they have more sugar in.

I must be a really bad mummy as I have given her this brand of apple since she has been old enough to eat them.

We actually have them growing in our back garden.

 

[beck0321]

According to the school red apples are sweeter than green, which means that they are bad for teeth as they have more sugar in.

I must be a really bad mummy as I have given her this brand of apple since she has been old enough to eat them.

We actually have them growing in our back garden.

Here's an idea. Teach children to brush their teeth daily if that is the concern. Not take away a perfectly healthy piece of fruit! That's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard! Shame on this school...

 

[Ware Bears]

According to the school red apples are sweeter than green, which means that they are bad for teeth as they have more sugar in.

OMG, this is so over the top. Your DD is eating healthy fruit, whether the apple is red or green.

I feel so sorry for your DD ~ it's hardly an encouraging start to her school life.

 

[Boo Boo Too]

OMG, this is so over the top. Your DD is eating healthy fruit, whether the apple is red or green.

I feel so sorry for your DD ~ it's hardly an encouraging start to her school life.

Yes, completely insane... Infact Green apples may well be more acidic than red apples, so I honestly don't think that you could say that green apples are kinder to teeth...

This sounds like a case of a little knowledge is a dangerous thing...

Any news on the ham yet?

Boo

 

[arieliwish]

I hope you get this sorted out, your poor little girl must be so confused!

I've seen the stuff some of the kids at our school take in packed lunches and would love to be a fly on the wall if they were policed like your school! - Chocolate milk, fruit winders, chocolate pudding, haribo, choc biscuits - all in one box!

On the other end of the scale, when my friends 2 boys were on packed lunches, one winter she did home made soup and put it in flasks for them to take, the head took them away and sent a note asking that hot food not be sent in as the children could burn themselves on it!! She was furious, the boys were juniors, prob years 3 and 5, and the soup had been in there since 8am, how hot could it still be!!?? At the time the school dinners on offer were atrocious and so she felt her boys were being penalised for the low uptake of school lunches.

Anyway, good luck,

Lynn

 

[ariel75]

This issue is a joke! what you feed your own child is your own business i think this issue should be stopped now who do they think they are as far as i'm concerned make a mockery of the school and name and shame them as other people have said by contacting the local papers.

 

[Boo Boo Too]

This issue is a joke! what you feed your own child is your own business i think this issue should be stopped now who do they think they are as far as i'm concerned make a mockery of the school and name and shame them as other people have said by contacting the local papers.

Agreed in this case (because this school doesn't have a clue...) AND beacuse wideeyes is obviously an intelligent and caring woman who looks after the health and wellbeing of her child.

But there are so many children out there who are not so lucky - whose parents just send them to school with a load of rubbish to eat (sweets, chocolates, crisps, fizzy drinks and chocolate spread sandwiches etc). Well the kids may think that they are lucky, but their bodies and their long term eating habits and health will not be so lucky... Some parents are just completely ignorant regarding the importance of good nutrition, others would rather take the "easy way out" (and let kids eat what they want, rather than get them into good habits).

I don't know, I am in two minds about this really:
- in some ways I think that it is good that schools take an interest in what kids eat: helping them to develop good healthy eat habits at an early age. Encouraging parents to provide nutritious food for their children.
- as some of you say... "don't interfer with what parents want to feed their kids" (if a parent wants to feed a kid rubbish, then let them). Why should I care about kids that aren't mine? Why should I worry about their health, possible obesity and lowered life expectancy?

I don't know... I guess that I lean towards the first (if I saw some random six year old crying in the street - with absolutely no-one around - I would go up to them and ask them what was wrong and try to help.... although I guess that us probably wrong these days - would probably get some parent yelling at me and end up arrested for talking to the child).

So I can see where the school is coming from, but I think that it needs some proper guidance in these matters. They need a clear policy and to be a "little" relaxed about it - a balanced diet is what is important. In the case of the OP's daughter. the school was SOOOOO wrong...

Boo

 

[wideeyes]

But there are so many children out there who are not so lucky - whose parents just send them to school with a load of rubbish to eat (sweets, chocolates, crisps, fizzy drinks and chocolate spread sandwiches etc). Well the kids may think that they are lucky, but their bodies and their long term eating habits and health will not be so lucky... Some parents are just completely ignorant regarding the importance of good nutrition, others would rather take the "easy way out" (and let kids eat what they want, rather than get them into good habits).

I don't know, I am in two minds about this really:
- in some ways I think that it is good that schools take an interest in what kids eat: helping them to develop good healthy eat habits at an early age. Encouraging parents to provide nutritious food for their children.
- as some of you say... "don't interfer with what parents want to feed their kids" (if a parent wants to feed a kid rubbish, then let them). Why should I care about kids that aren't mine? Why should I worry about their health, possible obesity and lowered life expectancy?

I agree that children need to eat healthy however its the parents who need to be targeted not the children, Its the parents who give the children the biscuits, crisps etc.

We have asked the school to contact us in the future and disuses any issues with us and not a 4 year old.

Is not really the ham that's the problem its the way they have dealt with it.
I don't want my dd forming an unhealthy relationship with food, may sound dramatic however yesterday she was worrying about lunch time, so she may associate this feeling with food.

 

[Boo Boo Too]

I agree that children need to eat healthy however its the parents who need to be targeted not the children, Its the parents who give the children the biscuits, crisps etc.

We have asked the school to contact us in the future and disuses any issues with us and not a 4 year old.

Yes, agreed - makes sense.

Is not really the ham that's the problem its the way they have dealt with it. I don't want my dd forming an unhealthy relationship with food, may sound dramatic however yesterday she was worrying about lunch time, so she may associate this feeling with food.

Completely agreed - that sort of age is SO formative.

Why aren't all parents as sensible as you?

Good luck

Boo