Not really 'education' per-se, but a school related rant all the same....Bins in schools

[NomDePlume]

Having managed to vent a little spleen over the sheer amount of superfluous cr*p my DS2's school see fit to include in the 'end of year sending work home pile, on RTKM's thread, I'm now in the mood to vent a little more....

The bugbear subject of this thread is bins in schools. DS goes to a generally pretty well regarded (in our area) primary school, but I have a list of irritating niggles as long as Mr Tickle's arm... The bin issue has long bothered me, basically the kids have no bins in which to dispose of their packed lunch rubbish. This means that all their rubbish, including apple cores etc, is left in their (never properly closed) lunchboxes until home time . The result when you get the box home is horrible, particularly in the warmer weather - brown apple cores, bits of crisps stuck to dirty yogurt spoons, yogurt pots with 15% of the contents uneaten, and therefore spilling over everything....

It drives me bl*ody crackers. How much trouble would it be to put a bin in the lunch rooms ? Really ? I aske dabout this once and was told, 'but then we'd have to get the council in to empty them' - WTF ?!

Thank G he is leaving the school for good on Fri !

The bugbear subject of this thread is bins in schools

CM - I think its because the emptying of the communal dinner bin is probably covered by the expense of the school dinner - which of course is not covered by the meany sandwich eating children or something equally as ludicrous. As we are leaving on Friday for good, I will ask! and report back

when I was at school the slops were taken by the local pig farmer!!! Maybe they dont like wrappers etc!

if they made school diners more palatable there wouldnt be as many sarnie kids!

Our schools reason for no bins is because it attracts the wasps in the summer months, (as the children eat outside) also in the winter months when eating inside if the children make a mess on the floor they are made to clean it up themselves. The consequence of this my DS gets paranoid about me putting anything in his lunchbox that might make a mess.

i don't mind at all. I recycle/reuse/compost most of it, anyway. I'd hate to think it was just going to landfill when I can recycle/reuse so much of it. And i know what ds ate. Sometimes i feed bits (half a sarnie, a few extra crisps) 2 the kids coming home from school when they're whiny or peckish, works out really well...

My kids don't like yogurt in lunchboxes, though, so no mess from that. And ds gets hot dinner on thursdays so the lunchbox gets a good wash out on Weds eve if not sooner.

Mandy we had pig-bins too - all the food went into big buckets for 'pigs'. DID IT REALLY GO TO PIGS?! How weird is that? Can't do that these days, you'd have pigs eaten ham sandwiches which is definitely a no-no...

our school had introduced bins for a term but so many sandwiches were being thrown away that they stopped providing bins, which makes sense imo.

never though of pigs eating ham sandwiches!
Although back in the dark ages when I was at schol no one took sandwiches