Blaardy lunchbox police at ds's school. Tomorrow I may lamp them.

[DrNortherner]

Every day ds get his packed lunch inspected by an 8 year old year 3 pupil who makes a list of how many healthy items are in his lunch, she inspects the whole class and makes a list for the teacher. God knows what the teacher does with this info, I need to find out.....

Today this was his lunch
REAL chicken breast sandwhich on a white roll
ASDA cheese dipper
Yoghurt
1 x Plum
Slice of swiss roll
Bottle of water.

It was deemed his plum and yoghurt were the only healthy items in his lunch.

FWIW his outdoor games teacher is about a size 24 and shouts orders whilst sitting on a bench. Is anyone inspectin her lunch?

Grrrrr.

Totally agree Katisha.

Yes, thanks moondog
Obviously it was not about me personally but I was genuinely upset by a couple of comments as it has never crossed my mind that a parent would see me as a bad role model due to my size.

From your "lardy" comment, you have confirmed what I needed to know.

Role model in what sense?
If you are a blinder at teachnig maths, then I couldn't care less how nig you are.
Ditto history, guitar, gardening.

Start telling me how to feed my kid however and my response will be 'Whoah! Stop right there lady!'

In any sense. I think of myself as a good person and would be gutted if any parent or child didn't see me as such.

I wouldn't dream of telling you how to feed anyone, not my job as far as I'm concerned.

I hate the healthy eating brigade as much as any parent does. Fair enough if your child is unhealthily under or overweight, someone should step in and just check that the parent does know about healthy foods/portions, but this constant monitoring of lunchboxes is just another example of overzealous managers IMO.

I wouldn't suggest being fat cancels your ability to be a 'good person'. What an odd idea.
My only point is that i don't want fat people lecturing or policing my kids on healthy eating.

So would a gay teacher be acceptable to teach your kids sex ed?

A Jewish teacher teaching your kids RE?

A white teacher teaching about Malcolm X?

Being "fat" doesn't mean I don't know what constitutes healthy eating, it just means I don't happen to follow the rules I teach, but how many people do?

To me, what is far more damaging is the techer they see smoking outside the gate every morning.

Mermaid. . .

Gay teachers still have sex and still use contraception. Would you stop a straight teacher teaching sex ed. to a homosexual student? So yes.

Jewish teachers still follow a religion. Judaism is taught as part of RE. So, again, yes. No one is expected to follow any religion, or practice anything they've been taught in RE, so it doesn't matter what the faith of the RE teacher is.

A white teacher teaching about Malcolm X. Yes, as long as they are not racist. White people also experience discrimination for the colour of their skin. Therefore, yes.

But, a larger teacher refusing to let children eat 'unhealthy' items simple appears hypocritical.

And I wouldn't be happy to let my children be taught about the dangers of smoking by a smoker.

I'm sorry but being overweight, along with being ginger, seem to be the only prejudices people can get away with now.

And, yes, I'm touchy about it because I am overweight, but I really did get upset by some of the comments made here tonight.

I am bowing out now. Goodnight.

No one on this thread is prejudiced against fat people. It is, however, true that overweight people appear hypocritical when promoting the healthy eating message to children. Taking chocolate bars from pupils and then eating your own does not give a good message.

Really? No-one?

"his outdoor games teacher is about a size 24 and shouts orders whilst sitting on a bench. Is anyone inspectin her lunch?"

"Yes put the mars bar in - bet the P.E. teacher confiscates it."

"suggest that perhaps a better role model for the kids is a PE teacher that is not obese"

"what moral authority does a lardy teacher have"

"Taking chocolate bars from pupils and then eating your own does not give a good message."

Agreed. How many kids at your school see teachers eating their lunch? None at mine.

At my DCs, all the teachers eat their lunch with the children.

Really? I've never heard of this before.

Fair enough then, they should be setting a good example with what they're eating, I totally agree.

Yes, it's a small school and the teachers eat with the pupils.

I'm absolutely exhausted, so I'm going to bed now.

Me too, goodnight

(and thank you far an actual intelligent debate rather than dismissing me)

Mermaidspan, I am very sorry you got upset. Feel bad that I started the thread and it upset you.

This nanny state just annoys me soooooo much and this lunchbox judging does not look at the whole picture. There is an overweight kid in ds's class who is currently on a diet. He got full marks yesterday for a healthy lunch, but has very little exercise. My ds only scored 2 but runs around like a lunatic at playtime, he does street dance, cricket and football, plus as a family we cycle and walk our dog so we are a healthy active family. Don't penalise my ds becuase he has a slice of swiss roll in his lunch.

DrNorthener, I agree with the 8 year olds assessment of your childs lunch.

It says a lot when an 8 year old has a better sense of a healthy varied diet, than a grown woman, a mum.

Actually, it gives me hope for future generations.

Swiss roll?
Cheese dipper?
White bread?

Your lunch box is hardly more than a collection of processed foods! (yes, even the youghurt)

Hey Mrs Q. The white 'processed' roll was made by his Dad at work who happens to be a chef, does that tick another one of your little boxes?

mermaid get a grip, the comments were regarding a pe teacher that tells the kids what do to from sitting down. (btw i'm no skinny bird but i thought the mars bar idea was funny)

How about filling the luchbox with plums that way he'll get a mark of about 20

Anyway the point i was going to make was, you should include the nutritional information for each item in the luch box in future so that you can appeal the final score at the end of the week. Who knows maybe the child with the highest healthy food score wins a box of chocs or something

Funny you should say that, it was their last day of swimming yesterday and the coach driver gave the class a box of celebrations so they had them for morning snack.....

Oh dear DrN, looks like you should have put the mung bean bread in after all...

Madness.

it is unfair on the kids because they do not pack the lunch and are being put down for something beyond their control. So just sat there waiting to be humiliated . Put a massive pork pie in it, nothing else, just a pork pie

Maybe you should complain about the chocs then

Wholegrains are often a bit much for littlies, or so I have come to understand. DS has explosive pant disasters if allowed wholemeal bread, and as for Weetabix ... [shudder]

He gets his fibre from beans, pulses, fruit and veg - a better source anyway. And if anyone wants to tell me I'm a bad mother for letting him have white bread then they can deal with the poo fallout.

As for cheese, goodness me, I always thought that protein and calcium were fairly healthful things to feed to a growing child. Looks like I should be taking some lessons from QSwotsit.

I'm with you all the way DrN.