To report to school what my DD told me about this lunchtime supervisor?

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Dd(8) told me that yesterday she saw a lunchtime supervisor take a fish finger off the tray at the serving hatch with her fingers and eat it. Dd said no other adults saw, she has seen this staff member do this before.
Would you email school and pass on what dd said?

A few bits of context -

• I believe dd, she is not likely to have made this up
• lunchtime supervisor has been working there about 30 years. She’s very harsh with the kids (based on what dd has told me) and anecdotally other parents have said even the staff are a bit scared of her!
• school has an outbreak of norovirus last week so have been very hot on infection control, washing hands etc.

I know she probably didn’t touch anyone else’s food, but it’s not right is it? If nothing else it’s unprofessional and sets a bad example to the kids. But I don’t want to bother the school if it’s not really a big deal.

Would you report it or leave it?

Yabu = I should not report it
yanbu = I should email the school about it

Dear Head
My daughter saw the lunchtime supervisor eat a fishfinger, the teaching assistant write something with a pen and the caretaker open the door to the shed.
Please advise me on what actions you intend to take on these matters.
Kind regards....

@postercarsonforPM Those recipes are both horrific and spectacular in equal measure.

Pollocks, I sea better than being chucked in the bream. Takes some mussel for me not to plaice my fingers on kids food. I never got cod.

Look at the scales of this issue, please let her off the hook.

Probably be a while before I can cook fish fingers without laughing.

I don't think this is worth bothering about. If you're concerned about the theft of a fishfinger - well, it's a bloody fishfinger; and very likely she's underpaid. If it's the hygiene issue: well, unless she put part of the fishfinger back, or handled other fishfingers, it's not a major problem. She ate it, so the only person who could get germs from touching it is herself! And a school is hardly a sterile environment; your daughter is far more likely to get sick just from being in a room with lots of other children and their lovely germs!

Meltdown Maiden: 'Pollocks, I sea better than being chucked in the bream. Takes some mussel for me not to plaice my fingers on kids food. I never got cod.

Look at the scales of this issue, please let her off the hook.'

LOL!!!!!!!

For your daughters sake I would not do that - you would become that parent and if it got back to the woman she might be even less friendly with your daughter.

Dear God. I can't really take in just how petty this sounds.
Don't report it - you'll be the one who looks a complete idiot.

I eat in the dinner hall with the kids once a week to foster good feeling and help with table manners and social skills. I usually see kids sucking stuff off of plates, being taught correct knife and fork use, dinner ladies cutting up food for the kids who still can't do this, then encouraging them to eat something other than sweetcorn, wiping the noses and hands of kids, teaching them how to scrape remains correctly and stack plates and trays, sorting out disputes, mopping up spills,wiping, wiping, wiping, sorting out more disputes, sorting out fruit freebies for those that need them, finding places in friendship groups for thos that need them, helping on the table that needs help, keeping the line orderly, and much more. I just sit and eat with them and it does my head in. I'd need more than one fishfinger, i'd need a bloody large gin!

It would be bonkers and vindictive to email the school over this.

Poor woman is probably on a shit wage AND works at lunchtime doing all of the stuff @phlebasconsidered has described and you begrudge her a fishfinger?!

Fuckinghell get a grip! We eat what’s left over at lunchtime. Better eat it than chuck it.

Complain, and you will be eaten alive in the staff room. Seriously.

Ywbu , and petty. The staff probably get to eat afterwards anyway.

Oh God surely you're having a laugh if not the school will, and your dd is a little snitch in training.
Puerile pathetic and plaice pollocks

Hrtft but fucking hell! I'm a lunchtime supervisor and it's not something I would do but it's hardly a major crime,she might have not had anything to eat all day.I very much doubt shed get into trouble she might even have been told she was allowed to.

I think you should consider contacting the ofted whistleblower hotline hun xx

*Ofsted

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ROFL

Let’s hope the OP doesn’t ever get called up to do jury service. If this is real, it’s frightening.

I bet your DD doesn't even wash her hands after using the loo but you want to complain to the school about someone picking up a bloody fish finger with clean hands- at the end of lunch hour, probably as she's hungry. What good will humiliating her do?

You know if they were making sandwiches instead eg for a school trip, the staff would have to touch it. I'm sure cooking staff touch food.

FFS

I think OPs pal is on here, there’s a thread where’s she’s annoyed a teacher told Y7 kids Santa isn’t real and according to her DS, girls were crying!!!
Busybody kids are undercover in a school near you !!!!!