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Quick help - before I go storming into school tomorrow

68 replies

Mspontipine · 21/02/2012 00:25

Ds happened to mention tonight that one of his teachers told him that his morning snack, my lovingly home-baked banana tea bread Bero recipe ..................was not a healthy snack Shock

Despite this being featured on the recommended healthy snacks list (fruit breads in general not my cake btw!)

Now ds is a whippet of a thing and tbh could do with a few burgers poking through the school fence at him. Bearing this in mind, and, as I say it is on the recommended list, and it is homebaked and does contain bananas, nuts and raisins etc, and I love baking it for him - bananas are always lying around uneaten in our house until I make it - AIBU to go storming into school tomorrow urgently demanding a full enquiry on this pertinent issue.

May I just add just now rather than committing a heinous drip-feeding offence, that though ds has only just mentioned this it was actually said to him in year 1, I have been blissfully unaware of this and have been lovingly baking aforementioned snack ever since.

Ds is now in year 4 BTW

OP posts:
UmmOfUmbridge · 21/02/2012 00:27

Go get 'em!
Wankers.
Yanbu.

Original poster
Mspontipine · 21/02/2012 00:28

Thank you UmmOfUmbridge Grin

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TheOnlyTrollOnTheForum · 21/02/2012 00:29

Should you be making them with nuts, I thought every school was 'nut free'?

bushymcbush · 21/02/2012 00:29

Um ... some teacher made a passing (if slightly ignorant) remark about your ds's snack 3 years ago and you want 'a full enquiry'?

Calm down a bit, eh?

UmmOfUmbridge · 21/02/2012 00:31

I suggest you stop sending it in with him and give it to me instead. It is the best cake fruit based snack in the world.

GhastlyBespoke · 21/02/2012 00:31

Erm. Yanbu to be pissed off but quite frankly if you've sending it in for four years the school may have already seen this as a big old "Fuck You" anyway. Grin they don't know your DS didn't tell you.

MeDented · 21/02/2012 00:35

If you've been sending your son in with the same healthy snack for 4 years I think he has made it up, give him a Kirkpatrick fgs

MeDented · 21/02/2012 00:35

Kitkat!

MotherMucca · 21/02/2012 00:36

I think the OP was joking when she pondered about demanding the enquiry.

Bloody schools and their bloody food policing ways... 'tis very irritating. Yes, do demand that enquiry Wink

MotherMucca · 21/02/2012 00:37

Kirkpatrick typo GrinGrinGrin

Original poster
Mspontipine · 21/02/2012 00:37

Ooh GhastlyBespoke didn't think of that Grin
With ds messages, letters, vital info etc sometimes take a while to filter down to me.
He's excelled himself with this one though :)

OP posts:
Original poster
Mspontipine · 21/02/2012 00:40

Liking the sound of a Kirkpatrick Grin
He doesn't get it every day! He does like it. LOL him making it up!

OP posts:
GhastlyBespoke · 21/02/2012 00:40

MeDented I thought you were suggesting a cigarette Grin

Really give em something to froth over.

MeDented · 21/02/2012 00:45

Lol yes a benson and hedges and a can of red bull should do the trick

ComposHat · 21/02/2012 01:13

Tell the teacher to fuck off and when they get there fuck off a bit further.

Pious food fascists get on my wick, I blame that Jamie Oliver, the foodie tossers are falling over themselves to give him a collective blowjob for saving our kids from the horrors of the occasional bag of crisps.

If you want to feed your kids a deep fried wrap of heroin for their morning break, it is none of her business. You don't tell her what to feed her fucking kids.

GhastlyBespoke · 21/02/2012 01:17

You know I'm almost certain a deep fried wrap of Heroin IS on the healthy list as long as its cooked in fry light. So you're ok there.

ButteryBiscuitBase · 21/02/2012 01:24

My dd school has a strict lunch box rule, but then serves sponge and custard almost daily with school dinners!

They should be teaching children about everything is ok in moderation rather than passing judgement!

ibizagirl · 21/02/2012 06:14

This really annoys me and reminds me of when my dd was at primary. She used to have the school dinners when the first catering company was there and liked them. Chose a jacket potato one day and was not allowed any butter. She told me this on the evening. Spoke to secretary next day about it as dd said it was dry and i was told butter is not allowed because of it being unhealthy. But the children were allowed chips every so often and FRIED fish or puddings (which my dd doesn't like). Not even a choice to have or not have butter. Pathetic.

theodorakis · 21/02/2012 06:22

I think I actually love you! burger poking has made me cry with laughter. seriously though it may be a throw away comment and maybe you are over reacting a bit but I would feel the same. Throw away comments made to children are never so, they remember everything. I would make a fuss, it will make you feel better

MrsKittyFane · 21/02/2012 06:30

You and your DC have endured 3 years of disapproval from this teacher.
Enough is enough.
YANBU to go storming into school tomorrow urgently demanding a full enquiry on this pertinent issue.
It's a disgrace.

MrsKittyFane · 21/02/2012 06:30

:o

troisgarcons · 21/02/2012 06:35

theo

It really did happen!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-405347/Mothers-defend-serving-junk-takeaways-healthy-eating-school.html

Instead, she said, they were responding to outrage from local parents about their children being denied the right to choose. "It's not about junk food and it's not about healthy eating, it's about the freedom of choice," said Mrs Critchlow, who lives in Rawmarsh, near Rotherham.

"They say we're just delivering fish and chips and burgers but we're not. We get what the kids want. Today we've been delivering jacket potatoes and salad sandwiches. Everything. Children are locked up like caged animals inside there, starving all day."

WMDinthekitchen · 21/02/2012 06:37

Mspont - do not storm into school! Go quietly into school with a worried look on your face. (my Thesp leanings are emerging here). Maintain the worried look throughout, Speak to the teacher and say that you are aware she does not consider your banana tea bread to be a healthy snack. Say you are confused because it is on the list, that bananas and other ingredients are healthy.

Ask her to give you then and there a list of healthy snacks (say you don't want the printed one as clearly she has her own agenda ideas). Produce a pen and paper and write down her suggestions. (Keeping the worried look going).

She won't do it again - especially if there are other parents around. Then you can put whatever you think appropriate in Ds's lunch box. And no, if there are any flamers out there, my three DC are slim and fit but know the delight of cake as well as the necessity of the healthy stuff.

Keep calm. Losing your cool won't help - you will annoy her and she will focus on that rather than reflecting on her inappropriate remark of yesterday. On the whole it is parents who decide what goes in lunch boxes, not children, so if she has an issue she should speak directly to you, not DS.

Don't forget the worried look. That's crucial.

Dozer · 21/02/2012 06:43

C'mon, reveal all the ingredients, then we can judge (and make it)!

ShowOfHands · 21/02/2012 06:47

Take the loaf down there, hurl it onto the teacher's desk, set it on fire, press your nose against hers and hiss "satisfied?" If you're going to do it, do it properly.

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