To be annoyed with what happened to DC at school today!

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DC have packed lunch and usually their lunch consist of Water a cathedral city snack, sandwiches and some sort of fruit usually apple slices. I packed DD lunch which was water, cheese snack bites, apple slices and sandwiches. When DD went to lunch the dinner ladies look in her box and told her she couldn't have her sandwich as it was unhealthy it was a BLT with cheese as they deemed it to be unhealthy it was confiscated!!! DD came home in tears and was pretty upset. AIBU to complain? DD has allergies so the school meals do not suit her that why she has packed lunch.

confusedpixie I had a similar thing happen to me, except our rather forceful dinner lady made me eat some rank, stringy rhubarb and custard. I thought it was a bit harsh bearing in mind I had eaten everything else and it was a pudding. I can still remember rushing to the loo afterwards spitting the remainder out and heaving my guts up. I cannot stand rhubarb and custard to this day.

I'm going to be completely screwed when mine start school by the sounds of it.

What are they saying was wrong with the sandwich? Sorry if that's a stupid question!

Don't believe me then curlew. Your disbelief doesn't make it less true. Just because someone has acted in a ridiculous and completely unreasonable way doesn't mean it didn't happen. People do things they shouldn't all the time. I'm really pleased for you that you haven't had the misfortune to come across tests in the same way some of us have. Someone's experience being different to your own doesn't make it less valid.

I would have gone straight to the Governors and the LEA if a dinner lady had decided to punish my child by confiscating their lunch, and denying them any form of replacement so they went hungry! That, and the school's response are unforgivable.

If a child's lunchbox contains only a couple of Mars bars and a can of Red Bull, it absolutely should be confiscated, but the child must then be given a school dinner! and the parents can be charged for it.

Punishing a child by denying them food and making them go hungry is positively Victorian, and I would be raising merry hell, if I were the OP!

If anyone at DSs school tried that on me, I would be in there. I hate people trying to talk and impose rules on things they don't know anything about.

I don't actually believe the school have done this. Have you made enquiries, OP?

I have been teaching in a primary school for almost 20 years and am totally gobsmacked. No one even really looks in our pupils' lunch boxes apart from to check that they actually have enough to eat in there!

There's weekly threads on the lunch box police.byhet can't all be lying.

Why is this one less believable than others?

You only have to look at the school menus to know just how much crap the school dinners contain and how pissed off people are when things are allowed to be served but not in a lunch box.

They can't

In packed lunches, children are not allowed chocolate or sweets and we discourage eating crisps on a daily basis.

This is all our school policy says. I have to say, I feel pretty lucky, hearing some of these stories! And I have, on occasion, popped a chocolate coin or similar tiny treat in there and nobody has ever said a word.

Oh yes, and no fizzy drinks, which also seems fair enough.

These are the same schools that banned Baa Baa Black Sheep, aren't they?

Nobody banned Baa Baa Black Sheep. It's just not true.

Exactly, Angela.

Actually I did hear about that. Whether it happened or not I don't know but I definately remember talk of it being changed to baa baa rainbow sheep as blab sheep was deemed racist/offensive

Black sheep

Our library did in its children's song time.

Curlew, if you don't believe it, report it. Otherwise stop being so bloody offensive and patronising to other posters by calling them liars or 'confused'. I can well believe some little Hitler took it into their heads to do this. The dinner police at DD's school are horrendous.

Curlew my dd used to attend a school that we joked that waterloo road used for ideas. We had a new head started and she intended to make her mark so first temp exclusions were for hair cuts, anyone who had their hair too short was excluded till it grew an acceptable length. A child who had their nose broken when attacked by another child was made to apologise because she must have done something to make the girl hit her. Same bully attacked another child too, that parent called the police in and her dd was excluded until mum agreed to drop charges. For about 2 weeks constant the riot police were outside the school at home time. An ex pupil was arrested while trying to blow up something ( can't remember exactly what). The school now has a security guard at the entrance morning and night and no parents are allowed on site at those points. I've missed a lot of things I know like the time the police had to order the school to close. Ok this is a secondary school and thankfully I no longer have a child there and that head is no longer there but it was one of those things that you had to witness to believe. So I can believe something like this happening all too easily

I'm prepared to be shot down but blt with cheese and cheese snacks on the side is not an healthy lunch.

But is it worse than anything that would be on a school menu?

Probably not. And there's no chocolate sponge and custard after either

I totally agree with hollymiami!

We also need to understand that healthy eating for children is different to that of adults. Children need fat, sugar, calories because they're supposed to burn it all off running around and playing.

When I was teaching healthy eating to Y2 they started all saying you should eat anything with fat or sugar in it and that you should never eat sweets/chocolate or cake!!! We spent a long time looking at the 'all in the right proportion' idea.

A blt would be great for a kid, especially if they're fairly active. I'd definitely be into the school to complain.

I do slimming world and have had that for lunch! There is nothing wrong with a BLT sandwich!!! Your poor daughter :( I don't know how anyone could be so cruel as to not only humiliate a child like that but to leave them with hardly any lunch.

BLT.

Sandwich - provides carbohydrates. Ok - so it's less full of fibre than wholemeal but there's concerns about too much fibre and children.

Lettuce - a rather pointless vegetable but full of nutrients
Tomato - same thing.But full of nutrients.
Bacon - grilled or fried. Salty and processed. But then again so is ham. Or most "meat products sold for sandwiches".

And kitty I totally agree. I hate the divide into healthy / not healthy. It's about a balance. And nutrition is incredibly complicated. We are going to end up with children losing nutrients because of exclusion in their diet.
Kids need fat.

Yabu.

Children should have nothing but quinoa & organic vegetables in their lunches, which they will gobble up with gusto. surely any decent parent knows this,

Sounds like these food nazis need educating. Don't know what to suggest about their lack of common sense when it comes to balance meals & leaving a child hungry- how is that healthy?

Please tell me you've taken this further.

Homegrown vegetables.
Fair trade food.
And lentils.

Obviously.