Blame school, child or both?

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On a class WhatsApp group a parent hs complained that their secondary age child has been allowed to buy 4 cakes?

They say the school has a duty of care and it shouldn't be allowed as policy is that they have to have a main and a dessert.

Said child had joined the queue at different times which the parent had said was ' clever' but they were still annoyed that he was allowed to do this and had complained to the
school.

Most replies were it is on the child, its a huge school and they were in fact sneaky.

Parent is adamant though that the child should not be to blame,as its the school's responsibility as a duty of care as they have healthy eating government guidelines.

The parent of a secondary school age child is complaining about this on a WhatsApp group? it's the parent that clearly has a problem, then the child.

Does the accounting system show the parent what was purchased, or did her son tell her?

He'd soon get bored of eating nothing but cake for lunch if she left him to it.

The parent then is an idiot, one of those parents who looks at everyone else to blame except for child and themselves, who are actually the problem! Our school allow 2 only, but could never police children going up twice

All on the child. I remember at the start of year 7 I went overboard on the home baked cookies and vomited in Spanish
Lesson learnt and I never did it again

They say the school has a duty of care

It's just cake.. the school doesn't need to ensure every child eats a healthy lunch. A healthy lunch should be available at the canteen, but that's it.

I'm surprised you have a class WhatsApp for secondary school.

It's clearly the child's fault..does the honestly expect school staff to be stood there watching what each and every kid purchases? She just needs to tell the kid not to do it!! I presume there's an online system where you can see what they buy so the kid can't get away with the parent not knowing?
When I was at school we could leave school for lunch and I used to walk to town and eat all sorts of crap.

Maybe don't blame anyone, mute the What's App group, and think about something that actually matters?

Fuck me! Another thing schools are now supposed to be monitoring! We can’t even staff our classrooms let alone check that little Bruce hasn’t had four cakes today! What is the world coming too! Let us know when you want us to check they are wiping their bums properly too!

Well the kid (hopefully) now knows such purchases don’t go undetected, so it’s down to the parent to parent on the issue now.

Yep, on the child, it really isn’t for the lunchtime supervisors to monitor what could be hundreds of children going through the queues. I doubt the school system is so advanced that it could block a child after 2 cakes. When DS started secondary he would get a bacon sandwich for breakfast then 2 muffins and 2 Radnor springs for lunch. Needless to say a conversation was had about picking healthier choices, especially once he realised I could see what he was buying!

The child! I really don't think secondary schools have time or staff to be monitoring what children are buying for lunch.
If mum is that concerned she should stop topping up his food card and send him in with a packed lunch for the day.

The only thing that ever happened in secondary that I know of is if a child came in with a massive bag of fizzy and large bars of chocolate (bought from the supermarket in their way in) they would be removed from them and given back at the end of the day.

Bloody hell I’m glad mine were at school before WhatsApp groups !

She sounds like a controlling loon

I guess people dared to because she put it on the what’s app group… what was she expecting!?!?

I had to read that a number of times to understand. I read it as vomiting in Spanish as opposed to in English. I wondered why you would switch to Spanish just to throw up!

And if the dinner staff had commented that he had already eat cakes and shouldn’t buy anymore then there would be complaints about ‘lunch box police’.

Me too...I thought 'does one make a different noise vomiting in Spanish? Olé!

Meh - kids do stupid things sometimes. You just tell them not to do it again and if they do you switch to packed lunch. It’s surely not that big a deal.