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packed lunch police

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AuntiePickleBottom · 08/09/2011 12:54

my son lunch today, is ham salad brown bread sandwich, yogurt, an apple with a carton of orange juice..he also take a bottle of water to have in the classroom.

due to policy no sweets, choclate and crisps are allowed.

just looked on the menu for school meals and today it is Sausages with
Mashed Potato Green Beans and Gravy with the dessert of Pineapple Up-side
Down Cake with Custard

on aibu to think that ds should be allowed to have a little treat in his packed lunch seeing as the other children has cake and custard

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ladyintheradiator · 08/09/2011 15:00

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InnocentRedhead · 08/09/2011 15:01

Fucking italics, it just doesn't have as much clout now ha!

Dear Teacher

Kindly fuck off and leave my child to eat his cake

Yours
AuntiePickleBottom

Ooopsadaisy · 08/09/2011 15:05

Don't the children just say "get out of my lunchbox you nosey time-waster and let me eat my food"?

Again I ask: Who is going to take a Mars Bar off my 6-footer?

RedOnion · 08/09/2011 15:05

I had the exact same thing with my daughters old school. I made flapjacks and sent her with a piece in her lunchbox. She had been told she wasn't allowed to eat it and there was a post it in the lunchbox saying "No sweet treats allowed". The "pudding" for those on school meals that day was chocolate brownie with ice cream. Fuckers.

Peachy · 08/09/2011 15:06

ds4's school nusery ahs just been told they can't serve toast as a snack (they have a toasty tuesday, fruit etc every otehr day)

What's so bloody wromng about toast once a week as a snack when you are 3?

DS1 is not allowed to take crisps in, he is at comp now so instead at break he buys... crisps.

If I were providing it'd be low salt or baked ones. Probably alongside some fruit.

Silly rule.

Peachy · 08/09/2011 15:08

Ooopsa nope, they do get it taken away in infants

as an extreme ds3, unable to drink milk and resistant to water (resistant in a diagnosed with autism and spits it sorta way) was subject to having his soya milk removed every day for not being water or milk until the LEA was forced to convene a costly panel meeting to amend his statement to ensure the school allowed soya milk as an option for him

fuckwittery

Ooopsadaisy · 08/09/2011 15:11

Well, my dcs are year 8 and year 11.

Anyone tries to mess with their lunches will get a kick up their LEA jacksies - first by dcs and then by me.

What a disgraceful way to treat children.

I bet the teachers have a fag, a WKD and a Maccy Ds every lunch hour don't they?

Don't treat our children like idiots. Really.

Quenelle · 08/09/2011 15:18

DS doesn't go to school yet but I have visited our village school and there is a trolley with lots of lunchboxes on. I assume they are collected in the morning, inspected by the lunchbox police, and handed out at lunchtime.

Vallhala · 08/09/2011 15:31

"leo, they are not allowed them [flapjacks or cakes] either, if you put them in there they will take them away and give it back to them at the end of lunch".

In which case I'd be telling my child to wait until they are returned at the end of lunch and to bloody well eat the cake/flapjack then. If by that time my child was required to be in lessons and she would be going into class eating the cake that would be tough. And if they had an issue with that they could take it up with ME, not my child!

There is no law which says that a child may not eat cake/flapjack in school, is there? I'd like to see what a school would do when met with a flat and determined refusal to play along with it's interfering games.

I despise the way in which schools attempt to make decisions which are not thirs but MINE as a parent to make.

Vallhala · 08/09/2011 15:33

Ooopsadaisy I think I love you and your DC. :o

Ooopsadaisy · 08/09/2011 15:34

"they take them away"

They actually take children's food away from them?

What planet is this?

TheSmallClanger · 08/09/2011 15:40

At DD's old primary, the dinner ladies made circuits of the dinner hall looking into lunchboxes and confiscating such evil things as little pots of chocolate mousse and tiny slices of birthday cake. I discreetly checked with the school to make sure this wasn't the over-exaggerations of a preteen, but it was all true.

Half of the time, the kids on school dinners were scarfing down eggs or sausages with potato smiley faces, with cakes and custard for dessert. They were ALWAYS bombarding us with school dinner propaganda as well. I'm really glad it stopped once she got to secondary.

Ooopsadaisy · 08/09/2011 15:41

Vallhala - I am now realising that this seems to happen at a younger age than my dcs (although it didn't when mine were younger).

However, I think that speaks volumes.

Schools wouldn't dare try to take a Mars Bar off a child who could challenge them. That makes it cowardly and a form of bullying

.... and that makes me angry!

And we wonder why children grow up with issues?

NodsSmilesandBacksAway · 08/09/2011 15:42

what happens if you give the kids contraband?

Vallhala · 08/09/2011 15:42

My DD is 14, year 10 and there are no crisps or sweets allowed in her school. I'll ask her about cake as part of packed lunch vs part of school dinner when she gets in, this will be interesting.

Ooopsadaisy · 08/09/2011 15:43

They took away slices of their birthday cake?????????????????????

What fuckers. I mean, really, what fuckers.

It sounds like Nazi Germany.

These are our bloody children! How dare they?

Ooopsadaisy · 08/09/2011 15:46

Valhalla - how do they know she's got crisps or cake?

They have no bloody right to go through her stuff unless they suspect her of carrying drugs, knives or firearms as far as I'm concerned.

Send her in with a bottle of Vodka tomorrow.

Vallhala · 08/09/2011 15:47

"Send her in with a a bottle of Vodka tomorrow"

Sam100 · 08/09/2011 16:01

Have a look at this school food trust menus. Cake on at least 2 out of 5 days of their recommended menu plans! Just tell school you are following guidelines!

seeker · 08/09/2011 16:04

A healthy luck box policy is a sensible thing. However the confiscation of cake from an otherwisae " healthy" lunchnbox is a it like the seeing of ghosts. It only every happens to someone you know- or to someone you know knows.

Sam100 · 08/09/2011 16:05

I am liking the low effort menu - it recommends a chelsea bun for 2 out of 3 weeks and fruit cake on the other week Grin! I think they may have a bit of a different idea to me about low effort though! I don't reckon I can knock these out in less than 5 mins each?

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 08/09/2011 16:15

It sounds like Nazi Germany

Really Hmm

ds has school dinners. They are very, very good. And besides, there's nowt wrong with decent bangers and mash nor with homemade sponge and custard. When he goes to holiday club I have to send packed lunches - they're invariably a bit crap.

I accept this isn't the case for everyone however. It does sound unfair to take away a nice cake or whatnot - but in the OP's shoes I'd be approaching the school for clarification (and complaining if what I'd heard was true).

Peachy · 08/09/2011 16:16

Valhalla technically it's a breech of the conditions youa ccept by sending your child to that school.

So on paper your child could lose a palce but in practice I can't see that's at all likely to happen.

We get sweets and birthdayc ake taken away now, or at elst the school tehy sued to attend started to do that before they left. And they stopped sweets at parties and discos too.

Oddly teh school with no sweets handed my son a party popper in lieu, which he let off in my face and I am not best impressed.

They also have a healthiest lunchbox prize every now again (how I wish i could report it was sweets!) and the TAs son wins every time coz she chooses the dates in advance and tells nobody.

Technically Opps and on apper ds1's new comp is far pickier than anywhere else- no crisps, cake, biscuits.... whoelgrain crackers etc. I sorely doubt any of it is adhered to in rl.

Ooopsadaisy · 08/09/2011 16:24

the dinner ladies made circuits of the dinner hall looking into lunchboxes and confiscating such evil things as little pots of chocolate mousse and tiny slices of birthday cake.

Yes - that to me does sound like a parody of Nazi Germany.

I am so glad neither of my dcs have experienced such lunacy.

seeker · 08/09/2011 16:41

I don't believe it happens.

And the Nazi Germany comparison is stupid.

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