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?

a, he won't starve without anything.
b, you obviously haven't had the experience of DCs that age eating yoghurt in a playground.

Yabvu, he certainly won't starve!

The amount of mess a young child and yogurt can make is shocking....then the amount of parents.that bollock the teacher for letting them get ub a mess is equally shocking

Yogurt isn't allowed.for a good reason

At 5yrs old mine were quite likely to get it all down their front when sitting at a table, so it certainly wasn't something that I would expect them to have on the move in a playground.

he wont be that hungry between breakfast and lunch
I think you're silly to think yoghurt would be ok, how is he supposed to eat that in the playground?

just read your last post

you sound like you having a shite time

I've been there

but your dh should be just as worried about your ds and fruit should have been on the shopping as a matter of course

so be angry at him
and then we will hug you

Yoghurt is messy, there's no getting away from it, and children that manage it with minimal spillage at home won't necessarily do the same at school in a busy playtime.
As far as the rules go, it's difficult. It's a slippery slope. How do we say to a child that then brings in yoghurt the following day instead of fruit because they fancy it "Oh you can't have yoghurt today, but it was OK for X to have it yesterday because his mummy didn't have fruit"? The rule then becomes fruit if you've got it, if not anything else. Many of our children and parents would really work that loophole until it was bring whatever you like.

If one DC has yoghurt in the playground they can't stop others doing it. I would hate to see the playground after 30 5yr olds had been eating yoghurt on the move! (sometimes people ought to see the big picture-rather than just their own DC)

Quite. Try telling the irate parent of the child who inevitably brings yogurt the next day 'because so and so was allowed yesterday' that you were just applying common sense.

YANBU the teachers can't be doing with the mess....that's all there is to it.

I think that they would get irate parents complaining when their DC is covered in yoghurt when they slipped on the stuff that had been dropped by a DC not concentrating while eating it!

"YANBU the teachers can't be doing with the mess....that's all there is to it."

Absolutely. And why should they waste good teaching time cleaning up spilt yoghurt?

I can see the thread now. "AIBU to be cross that my dc didn;t get to read to the teacher today because the teacher had to deal with a pot of yoghurt that some child dropped on the floor then stood in. The school has sent out letters saying what's acceptable as a break time snack - why do people insist on thinking their child is a special case that the rules don't apply to?"

Sticky fruit covered children are just as bad imo.

Apples sticky? Bananas sticky? Even with oranges you can send them to wash their hands! (people will have any argument to stop their DC eating fruit!)
People will persist in thinking that DCs will treat food like an adult. They won't sit down and concentrate on yoghurt-they will attempt to eat it on the move.

I don't stop my dcs eating fruit and I never said anything to even imply that!

Fruit juice is sticky because of the (natural) sugars in it and sticky fingers quickly make everything they come into contact with sticky too (well at least it does in my house :o)

snap lockets

Potato puffs, jammy dodgers, tea cakes(remember picking off all the chocolate coating first!?) now that's what I call a playtime snack, but only alloed , in my case, on a Friday!!!!

opphs! allowed