Ice cream van parked on school land

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Every day since the reception children have started back there is an ice cream van parked on school land that is next to the path that all the reception children and parents need to take to leave the school grounds. I am suprised the school is allowing this since it does not encourage healthy eating. Or could it be parked there without the schools knowledge or permission? It seems quite cheeky to me.

The school will know - they have likely allowed this so it isn't on the road causing traffic issues. My DD school has done this for the local van.

Yabu… just walk past

They used to have this at my DC's school way back when. But I told mine that they could have one once a week.

Reminds me of being at High School and every lunchtime the ice cream van would drive onto the school field and stay there for the whole hour.

Parent your children and tell them no then - you don't have to buy one!

Good grief. There’s an actual ice cream shop on the only road that you can access my daughters school from. Imagine the horror! There’s obese children and adults parading past in their thousands 🙄🙄🙄.

Sure ask if the school are aware/have given permission but I don’t think we need to be concerned about an ice cream van not encouraging healthy eating just because it’s on school property do we?!

I expect you need to contact the school if you have concerns.

There was an ice cream van outside my school every single day in the 1980s.

An occasional ice cream is not going to turn a kid into a morbidly obese diabetic with lifelong health problems.

Here in Italy the "health" news on telly advises you to have an ice cream for lunch if you can't be arsed cooking anything.
Maybe it's part of a health drive from the school?

Parked there without the school’s knowledge? Uh?

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There was usually an ice cream man outside our school when I was a kid. But not actually on the school grounds. That doesn’t sound as though it’s proper

Actually I don’t think the school should be allowing ice cream vans, or any commercial activity like it, on school grounds during the normal school day. It’s not a fete on a weekend and it’s nothing like having a shop on the same street. It’s just not appropriate- and I’d say that if they were selling fruit and veg, t shirts, sombreros or pretty much anything not school related (book fairs or school uniform sales is different). I’m quite capable of saying no to my children, and I do, but I shouldn’t have to.

Why do you think the school wouldn't be aware?

Just...say no.

Don't ice cream vans mostly sell drugs these days?

Probably has an old fumey Diesel engine running non stop too for all of you to breathe in as you go past

@MiauzenKatzenjammer
i think so as round here there is one all year round .

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