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

[Namechangingforthis2019]

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

@Namechangingforthis2019 please get a grip and also tell dd this. Telling tales is not a good habit for anybody, adult or child.

@mnhq

Please move this thread to mumsnet classics

I have asked

Bumping for posterity.

Can’t believe there are 21 pages about a fish finger!

Do dinner ladies get free lunch then? When i pay for my sons lunches does it go to feed a random woman? My aunts a dinner lady and reckons her primary school portions are pathetic and barely go round. Report.

Haha forgot about this thread!

Wow.
I feel kind of sorry for the hungry dinner lady.

... I fear she'd be much more likely to get in serious trouble nowadays (in our brave new socially distanced world), if she got caught or reported.

Omg you will be ridiculed and laughed at. Do not email.

Just realised this was months ago 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You would win the Reporter of The Year award, and get a dozen boxes of Birds Eye fish fingers from the firm, for mentioning how popular fish fingers are.

If this is all you have to worry about I think all is OK for you.

Eat the rich

Call the papers now!!! Busy and Hungry Supervisor Eats Fishfinger. 0 injured!!!

Oh it was a year ago. Haha!!!

I’ve been around here for a long while but am actually surprised at some of the tone of your replies

You can't have been paying very close attention in that case.

Oh it's a zombie thread. FFS

Mother of god.
YABU.
Don't be that parent.

And no-one likes a tell-tale.

@Namechangingforthis2019 @caroloro

At our schools staff can also order from the school menu for their own lunch /snack. Obviously they pay for it but they can choose to eat the same as the kids.

And like others have said the dinner staff often give out left overs, whilst lunches are normally preordered there is always extras made of every option to allow for kids who are later into school for whatever reason and have missed the chance to order.

There is always the chance this lady is living hand to mouth just now quite literally, not everyone is rolling in extra cash, you don't know what her personal circumstances are. Given that she's not took it off a child's tray that they are sitting with I really think there's more going on in the world than the worry of someone eating a fish finger. If it's about using her fingers, well so would your daughter if she was eating a sandwich so really not such a big deal.

How did I miss this the first time around 😂

I’ve read this thread before.....

ZOMBIE THREAD

Get. A. Grip.
What’s going to happen do you think? The supervisor is going to admit to this, if it’s even true? Are you sure your tattle taling daughter didn’t make it up? Why did your DD even think it was more worthy? I’d be ashamed if it was
My kid.

I remember a dinner lady at school would come round asking if anyone wanted seconds of chips, eating some herself as she did. She'd also take your rock bun from your tray and give it someone else if you weren't going to eat it. Op, is it the fact she was handling food without gloves on that's bothered you?

Oh ffs, zombie thread, why????