Lunchbox suspension..

[JunoMacGuff]

here

It's from a DM article apparently though I refuse to investigate that.

A school have really suspended a child based on his parents actions? And those actions were to give him mini cheddars?

I'm on the side of the school for this one. Shoot me. If the school is saying no crisps, it is no crisps. It's the rule. End of. If you're not happy, then pick up your children at lunchtime and give them whatever you want at home, or change school.

joysmum whether it not one agrees with the lunchbox choice is one thing. But why is a child being suspended because of his parents actions?

But given that no school child can ever have a day off otherwise their entire education will be ruined and the parents will have to go to prison (or whatever Gove's policy is called - it'll be that soon enough) - how can the school justify making him miss four days because someone other than him gave him an unhealthy lunch?

^ this

The problem is it isn't now and again-a lunchbox is a large part of a kids diet. And I don't believe that the parents sending Dunkers/cheese strings/froobs etc are giving a home cooked, unprocessed, healthy meal (otherwise, if you were that way inclined you'd make healthy lunches too, the two go hand in hand).

Not even an unhealthy lunch. It wasn't bloody heroin he was sent in with.

Sorry, meant to say 'a healthy meal if an evening'

siblingrevelry - but he's eating whatever his parents given him all day now though, too. The only difference is that now he isn't at school either.

sibling bullshit!

I only ever cook from scratch. Haven't bought a ready meal since I was a student. We have healthy cereals for breakfast, or fruit. Or on a good day, poached eggs.

But I do give DS 'shit' in his lunchbox. Dunkers, babybel, mini cheddars, yoghurt tubes, innocent tubes etc. along with a sandwich.

I used to give fruit, occasionally still do if there's nothing else in, but it never gets eaten. It comes home.

The school has its rules about packed lunches.

The parents refused to comply with the rules and behaved idiotically.

I read the letter and I thought it was perfectly reasonable.

The contents of the boy's lunchbox were pathetic.

Most people don't seem to understand the first thing about a healthy diet if they think all this processed crap is acceptable food for ANYONE, child or adult, and that includes these "yogurt tubes", what on earth are they even?

My daughter's school don't allow packed lunches, everyone eats a hot lunch at school together = a jolly good thing!

Packed lunches should be banned outright!

Yogurt tubes are yogurt, that's in a tube

You squeeze it out instead if getting out a carton with a spoon. Genius.

Being totally impartial and ignoring my views on the lunchbox situation, I still don't understand why the boy is being suspended (and potentially expelled) for his parents behaviour. It's not his behaviour.

Sibling... That is rubbish! My ds eats very healthily at home...I cook from scratch and he has veggies at every dinner. I cannot get him to eat certain things at lunchtime when I am not there to supervise him. I'd rather he ate his jam sandwich and a packet of crisps then nothing.

By the way...what's wrong with babybels?!!

Its dairy/protein

Yoplait Frubes:

INGREDIENTS Strawberry: Fromage Frais, Sugar: 13%, Strawberry Pure from Concentrate: 5%, Sucrose syrup: 0.6%, Modified maize starch, Flavourings, Stabiliser: Guar gum, Calcium Phosphate, Acidity regulators: Citric acid, Sodium citrates; Preservative: Potassium sorbate, Vitamin D.

Yum yum.

Does sound an more cost effective method for families to take a holiday, attend a family funeral than simply risking a fine .

It sounds to me as if jobsworths have destroyed the home/school relationship between this child and his parents - that's a shame for the long term. This will cost more than just four days iyswim.

Minnie - do you want the state raising our kids totally? The outcomes for looked after kids are abysmal.

At my son's first school despite being given SAFE packed lunches he had to have a week off on two separate occasions after school staff gave him dairy, against medical advice and made him ill. I was furious as there was no reason to give him anything that hadn't come from home. Schools make mistakes and for many parents with children who have allergies/medical conditions etc a packed lunch is not a want, it's a necessity!

QueenQuinine - ooooh, genius. So, around when do you think I need to send in nothing but crisps for a week and then be rude to the headmistress, for a week's cheap&quiet holiday in June? How long do these things take?

What on earth is wrong with a yoghurt tube?

And I don't believe that the parents sending Dunkers/cheese strings/froobs etc are giving a home cooked, unprocessed, healthy meal

Nonsense. I cook from scratch every night, my children eat plenty of fresh veg and unprocessed meals - I also have a coeliac child so very little of we eat hasn't been made from scratch

I do however, refuse to get het up about a packet of mini cheddars. I am not there to supervise my child eating her lunch, she gets a very short amount of time to eat lunch at school I'd rather she ate something

But lunchbox contents aside, school should not be suspending a child based on his parents' behaviour/contents of his lunch box

MarianneM For balance it'd be great to see the ingredients of a 'better' yoghurt.

Also about your DD eating school lunch as a lot of other mums I am concerned about school lunches due to my sons CMPA and other intolerances/allergies. You'd be surprised what has hidden dairy in and we're not sure of everything he can't eat, getting rid of packed lunches is fine and dandy for children who have no allergies etc but for those that do it's a minefield.

There are lots of double standards here-apparently the lunchbox police are everywhere, yet seemingly not around when they need to encourage kids to eat the good stuff, so we just give in and send crap?

I don't believe when some of you say you insist on healthy at home but don't care about lunch (a third of a child's meals). It's like saying I make him wear a seatbelt when he's with me, but he won't wear one for his grandma so we just let him off, as I'm not there to check.

If you know they eat healthily because that's what you provide at home, why are they refusing it at school (or more to the point, why are they allowed to refuse?). If there's no crap and only healthy, they will eat it. Might take a while, but going hingry at lunchtime isn't the worst thing that can happen to s child who's Otherwise had a healthy breakfast and dinner. Just requires a bit of extra effort to send things they will eat (not necessarily out of a packet, that's full of salt & sugar & chemicals and has sat in a warehouse for the best part of a year). This stuff is doing untold damage to our kids on the inside-once in a while, no problem if that's what you choose, but every day is not good enough.

What on earth is wrong with a yoghurt tube?

Very little nutritional value. Full of sugar and preservatives etc.

The school also have the power to issue lunchtime exclusions. Wouldn't that have been more appropriate here???

Faithless12

Total Greek Yogurt

Ingredients

Pasteurised Cows' Milk, Milk Cream, Live Active Yoghurt Cultures (L. Bulgaricus, S. Thermophilus, L. Acidophilus, Bifidus, L. Casei).