To be pissed off with school ?!

[MyPandaisasecretmonster]

Ds5 went back to school today (Y1)

Everybody in the school has packed lunches as their are no cooking facilities .
When we got to school the Teacher informed us from tomorrow that we can no longer take our own pa led lunches in as school will supply them due to the new law that has come in .

They will be providing packed lunches for all under 7s which will be a choice of a Cheese or Ham sandwich , a piece of fruit and a drink of water

AIBU to think they could of sent a blooming letter out before everybody wasted their money on new packed lunch boxes etc , Oh and not forgetting the fridge full of packed lunch stuff that I bought yesterday for the next fortnight

The choices are ridiculous my Dn attends the same school & she is Muslim so can't eat the Ham & she won't eat cheese so what is she suppose to do ?
Also my Ds&Dn take pasta salad etc in as well yet now because it is law they have to have a sandwich

I'm actually fuming at this

[MarchEliza]

I disagree that this is too trivial to be annoyed by. If I was told I would be eating an (almost certainly crap) cheese sandwich and piece of fruit for lunch five days a week for the next two years I would be horrified - I can't imagine expecting my child to tolerate the same.

[MarchEliza]

sorry x post Annie

[cakecake]

mypanda of course you are allowed to put your imput - as i said in my previous comment, i just suggested rather than being angry about it and complaining, you could appreciate the effort that goes into something like this and make helpful suggestions (e.g. would be better if it was optional, or if there was alternating choices).

i have absolutely no problem with people voicing their opinions but there are ways of doing it.

[rockybalboa]

I don't see how they can forbid children taking in their own packed lunches. Maybe they don't want to make it blatantly obvious how dull their own offerings are.

[AnnieLobeseder]

That's what I thought, rocky. The poor kids on school sandwiches will be howling that they don't get tasty sandwiches like the other children.

[HappyAgainOneDay]

A choice of two dry sandwiches. No mayonnaise or mustard or sliced tomato or sliced cucumber?

[Mumoftwoyoungkids]

The whole point of this policy is that research has shown that children who don't get an adequate nutritious meal at lunchtime tend to underperform at school.

I'm not sure that making the entire class hungry is quite what the government meant when they said they want "equal opportunities for all".

This is so easily solvable. All kids get the sandwich and fruit. If parents want to send in something for them to have instead or as well then that is fine. For those kids that parents are really struggling then the lunch is significantly better than what they are having right now.

[rumbleinthrjungle]

If parents want to send in something for them to have instead or as well then that is fine. For those kids that parents are really struggling then the lunch is significantly better than what they are having right now.

This.

This is mostly to benefit the kids who have never seen veggie sticks, dips or pasta salads in their home and are doing well if they get sent in with a pack of cold chips, or if anyone got round to feeding them at all last night. Or the siblings that were given a small shop cake to split between them by the eight year old eldest. I wish I was exaggerating. Not that that makes a ham/cheese sandwich and fruit appropriate, ok or enough, but at least it's a start.

[echt]

Years ago, school kitchens were allowed/encouraged to be run down as it was deemed better value to buy in ready made food that require little expertise or equipment. At the time there were confident predictions that a situation such as this would arise.

It's appalling that a sandwich and fruit are considered suitable for a child. Every day of my school life I had some version of meat, spuds and veg, with pudding. It was very unusual to see overweight children.

[EmeraldLion]

I wouldn't be cross about 'wasting' money on a lunch box etc, because my dc would still be taking them. End of.

A typical lunch for ds1 who's 6 would be a tuna and cucumber roll, a largeish yoghurt, cheese, carrot and pepper sticks, a tub of grapes and a treat - a small chocolate bar or pack of mini cheddars.

He always eats it all and he'd be starving and utterly miserable all afternoon after a ham sandwich and an apple.

I'd politely tell the head they'd still be bringing their own lunch and progress to kicking off massively and writing to the Governers/MP/anyone i could think of if I was refused.

[Nanny0gg]

It's not compulsory.

That's it really.