To be cross that DS not allowed to eat yogurt at break-time

[ifitsnotanarse]

DS1's school have a healthy eating policy for breaktime and children are only allowed to have fruit and water/milk. This morning we had no fresh fruit to send in for break and instead sent in a yogurt as I quite obviously didn't want him being hungry - lunchtime is not until 12pm. We were also late this morning so I didn't get a chance to explain this to his teacher or classroom assistant. When I collected him from school he told me that the classroom assistant did not allow him to eat the yogurt and told him to put it back in his bag until lunchtime. I asked if the assistant asked him if he had anything else to eat and he said that she did and he told her no. Therefore he went hungry. He is 5yrs old and in P1.
I am so mad at the classroom assistant and feel like making a complaint to the head teacher . I completely agree with the fruit and water/milk at breaktime but not to the extent that it policed so rigerously. WTF did she think would happen; the whole class erupt into anarchy?!?
Am I being unreasonable?

Not sure. YANBU at thinking an alternative snack would be ok on this occasion, but YABU at sending yoghurt - it's not practical for yoghurt to be eaten at playtime, really. And health and safety is possibly part of their defence - a spoon in the mouth isn't great with other kids running around and bumping into you. :)

Nor is slipping on a spilt yoghurt when you have hundreds of kids I suppose.

Hmm. Well in my day (1990s lol)we didn't get ANY snack at break. Never did us any harm I think... And you can't expect them to bend the rules for you, because soon other parents could be taking the piss - oh sorry I forgot the apple so lil Johnny has got crisps/gregg's sausage roll/a line of crack instead...

But I do agree it's silly to not have a back up, or a different system - at DD's Playgroup we each donate a bit of fruit each week and they share - less pressure on individual parents, more variety for the DCs, win win IMO!

Yoghurts and infants is a truly horrible combination. They wear most of it on their jumpers after lunch.
OP, get organised. It was your fault.

And before the bandwagon starts rolling, yes I have given my apple to children at break, And I've gone out at lunchtime to buy stuff for those with nothing to eat and an uncontactable parent.

As Bearcat says this constant snacking is a modern obsession. In my day no one would dream of having a morning snack. In fact I think we only had an afternoon snack at home because we had to wait for Dad to come home at 6 for our tea.

He really isn't going to starve.

Our kindergarten have recently banned yogurts for snack time because there were a few too many incident of spilled yogurts over everyone and everything.

"WTF did she think would happen; the whole class erupt into anarchy?!? "

I'd imagine she'd expect that the next day some other kids would bring in stuff they weren't allowed and then they'd either have to allow them to eat it or else have a load of parents complaining about their child "starving" while ifitsnotanarse jr. was allowed to break the rules without any problems.
You knew the rules, you broke them, don't get in a pisser with her about it.

free fruit here up in lancs/merseyside at snack time too

Jesus... lunchtime is not til 12

And school starts at, what, 9am?

I think "he went hungry" is a slight overstatement here.

I am little gob-smacked that a child cannot last that "long" and also agree that there is no way they want children messing around with yoghurt (which is NOT that healthy anyway).

Well I do agree that a yoghurt is a slightly messy snack but at DS's school if he ever forgets his snack they get given biscuits from the staff room - sometimes its almost like he deliberately tries to forget his apple

Oh they love to starve them with slivers of raw vegetables these days.

Miserable fucks.

Normally DS takes fruit to school. However, I gave DS a packet of quavers this morning that had been lurking round the back of the larder for a few weeks. The last two pieces of fruit had gone rotten. Does that make me a chav bad mummy? AIBU to expect the school to butt out if it is just an occational treat, not the norm?

yoghurt is definately healthier than a cereal bar!

In my primary days in the 80s we had snacks at breaktime.

You could keep some raisins or dried apricots in the cupboard as back up when you run out of fresh fruit. In the 70s we used to have a tuck shop and I remember buying Burton's Salt and Vin or Beef puffs from there. Do they still sell Burton's Puffs?

I have rarely sent in any snack for any of my 4 children. They all seem to arrive home in one piece at the end of the day. Little ones do get fruit at school.

I can see it's a right pain when children have banned items. I'd have said to dc sorry no fruit you'll have to do without today.

me too iska, I remember the packet of crisps I had nearly every day, even had free milk till thatcher the snatcher!

OMG you cant even give your child food you give/choose them to have, this world is getting so pathetic n pc, u cant do anything, we all survived having snacks other than just fruit! yeah i can understand healthy eating but it takes it to the extreme, and yeah for those of you who said they wont starve, well i know when im at work i get hungry between 9 and 12, so im sure children do too, although they wont starve y cant they eat what their parent has packed them! its not for the teacher to decide

I had to get a letter from the doctor to say that DD1 and DD2 needed to eat carbs at breaktime to help prevent migraine. Until the school got the letter they refused to let my DDs eat cereal bars, etc. rather than just fruit.

Mine dcs are 13 and 15 and didn't get snacks at breaktime in infants. Once they were in juniors there was a snack shop and they could bring money in to buy toast or fruit etc but they never bought in snacks.

I think they may have bought in free fruit when dd was year 2.

If you go to the Head about Yoghurtgate s/he will Mark you down on their hidden chart marked 'Loons', possibly in the sub-section 'Hysterical'.

Fruit at break. Them's the rules. It's no biggy, and certainly not worth getting into a lather about.

What is the world coming to that a people think a child will come to some harm from not having something to eat for 3 hours!

Yogurt is not allowed - can you imagine all the kids coming in with yogurt -having the rancid smell of milk lingering when they spill it on the carpet!!!

Not the teacher's responsibility, he should have been given fruit or veg by his parent. He wasn't.