am wondering if its worth getting annoyed that school are bribing kids to pester us to buy school dinners

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ds wants school dinners cos a letter got sent home today saying if he has them on 4 certain days he wil get a free world cup football chart and stickers. i suppose 4 times costs less than £7 but i would also have to pay for ds2. and i dont really want them having school dinners for lots of reasons. it just seems really immoral to be bribing kids this way. the council knows they are going to come home and pester parents. cant decide if i should be mildly irritated or really quite annoyed. cast your vote :)

No matter what your view on school dinners, I would really object to the bribery element of this. Send home info on school meals and how much they have improved etc. by all means if they are trying to up their numbers, but encouraging "pester power" is totally out of order. Complain (and do make custy's point about cost which I totally agree with - there are plenty of people who don't qualify for free school meals who would struggle to pay for school dinners every day).

well so far I haven't heard of the world cup scheme but I would be annoyed as well as the school dinners at my dd's school are not very good and the staff's attitudes are even worse.

I am pestered by my 2 for school dinners all the time,not because they want the food!oh no! they see the sch din kids having more fun! Competitions,stickers, colouring books!!
I can't afford it & there will be 3 of them in september! Its not fair that are made to feel less important.
I used to love school dinners and wanted my children to have the same but can't.
I totally agree with you GG.

Buy him a bigger better sports cup with the money you save packing the lunches yourself.

I agree I expect this behaviour from big usiness, but would have a problem from local schools.

Oh, and agree that "potatoe smiles" are not nutritious food. In fact, potatoes aren't very nutritous. They are okay some times, but brown rice or other whole grains are better.