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?

But most yoghurts are not healthy snacks anyway. Even if it is a plain organic live yoghurt it's not like having fruit or veg.

What about chocolate yoghurt?

so what was she supposed to do as she realised she didnt have fruit in the morning, rush to shop and buy some then break another RULE and make him late, what example is that,,,op alread explained this was a one off, common sense by the assitant could have been used

I think you should definitely complain to the head teacher. I am sure she will back you up 100% in your complaint that the TA didn't break the school rules because of your failure to give your child fruit. Her double failure by not being able to read your mind and just, so unreasonably, telling a child to put something thats not allowed back into their bag until lunchtime just shows how incredibly unreasonable and mean the TA is.

ffs, he/she won't bloody starve between breakfast and lunch!!!
DS has some "issues" around eating and refuses to eat lunch in the dinner hall with other children. We have tried ALL the options and given up. it is certainly not ideal, and probably not to be recommended that he avoids food at lunchtime (never mind breaktime), but he survives. I know that his case is rather extreme, but he has a big breakfast and then often nothing at all except drinks, until he comes home at 3.15. he's hungry for sure, but is hale and hearty otherwise and bigger and taller than most kids in his class. I repeat, I am NOT advocating this as a strategy generally - I would far rather he ate at lunchtime with the other kids - but my point is that a child with a decent breakfast in them can actually survive without snacks all day and live to tell the tale!

Common sense isn't letting a child eat something that isn't allowed - that's the opposite of common sense. My Y5s would be howling with injustice if someone was allowed to eat something they weren't.

It's just one day without a piece of fruit though? Surely no harm done?

Maybe assistant did use her common sense and realised that exceptions will almost certainly be picked up on by other parents and there will be no defence when 23 chocolate aero yoghurts pop up tomorrow. The school either has a policy and it's the TA's job to enforce it, or it doesn't bother and lets the kids eat what they like.

and she was already late anyway.

BabbyEdensMummy - I'm sure he is fine. I applaude the school for sticking to the rules.

demented my DS is a big like that, really pics at packed lunch & doesn't like eating @ breakfast club either. He is tall & strong for his age, fastest runner etc & eats like a horse at home so I don't push him too hard to eat much there either.

Bit not big

well there you go then she already broke one of your precious rules, so whats one more to be broken

I don't understand any of this!

My DCs are 23 and 19. In that era you were not allowed to take anything for breaktime. You ate breakfast before school, you learned, you played at break, you learned some more then you ate lunch. neither of them faded away to nothing. Do you all seriously think your children will starve?!

I never cease to be amazed at how the world is increasingly revolving around children and people are up in arms at any inconvenience to their little ones. How are they ever going to learn what rules are?

afraid you lost me there with that argument babby

actually, unless the OP works she could have got some fruit and dropped it in later in the morning

but babyeden, lots of us have said that yes, there should be a back-up for children who have forgotten their fruit or whose parents don't send any- you must occasionally get the parent who just doesn't bother, as well as those who genuinely don't have any/forget.

seems common sense.

"Precious rules"

Do your dcs have rules at their school, BabbyEdensMummy? Do you share the same attitude towards them?

sorry, i couldn't tell :)

YADNBU. I am going to rip dd2s TA's head off tomorrow. She took dds kettle of boiling water and pot noodle off her today at break. WTF?

It doesn't have to be fresh fruit. Even an empty-fridge type person such as myself would have a tin of pineapple chunks or similar in the cupboard that could be utilised. Or carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, sweetcorn etc. Even some corn flakes in a tupperware may have gone under the radar. A yoghurt was asking for trouble...

i was be sarcastic, im just saying it doesnt seem to be a problem that she was late but it does seem to be one that she bought yoghurt in, i just dont get why if thats what she want her dc to eat for his snack why cant they its not like he has it everyday. i do understand the importance of rules but i just think that descrection at time could be used, and every one makes out that youghurts are the worst thing ever health wise, like i said before its not like its chocalte,that i could understand!

Ah,OK, see your point now. Thank you. I'm not a big fan of lateness either tbh. But I didn't think it'd be polite to have a go at OP for that one.