School stopping my child eating chocolate

cfubar

Ive got to get this off my chest because im fuming.
My child (7 yrs old) takes a packed lunch to school, usually a sandwich a few grapes and raisins and one chocolate biscuit (such as a kit kat). The school are saying children are not allowed to take these and one of my little girls freinds was stopped from eating a yogurt which had smartie pieces in! Other children have had chocolate taken off them.

How can the possibly be allowed to do this??????

At the same time children that have school dinners are being given puddings with custard for deserts and on some occassions muffins and such!

This has all started since a new headteacher took over (as well as closing the car park and therefore causing dangerous parking on the roads).

Is there anything i can do about this? Surely its up to me what my children eat? Its not as if im sending her with a box full of junk. The school dinners still include chips, isnt a portion of chips worse than a kitkat or blue ribbon?
Im very annoyed about this , has anyone else had a similar experiance? Does anyone know if i have a right to complain and if so who to? :mad::mad::mad:

Wicked_witch

They have probably been railroaded into some kind of healthy eating policy as Ofsted likes these. I would certainly complain, you are not the first person to observe this kind of double standard. I would start by contacting the Head and go from there. If the school meals are healthy, that would be a slightly different story, but I would still feel that you have a right to decide what your daughter is allowed to eat, especially since you are obviously not just giving her rubbish.

jamespir

i think tht the school are wrong here and you should contact the head teacher what you send your child to eat in its lunch box is between you and your child

i know there has been all this palava about healthy eating in school but his is taking it to far

onetomany

my sons school has been doing this for years, once a week he stays for dinners and he get healthy choices no chips but he will have choclate and pear fudge cake, i know the school has won awards for health eating maybe urs is trying to achive this?

Alikay

I'd pick your battles wisely - your child is hardly going to suffer from malnutrition from being denied her lunchtime Kit Kat! Send her with another sandwich, scone, fruit cake or whatever.

Schools don't have time to police childrens' packed lunches - much easier to say "no chocolate" than assess the nutritional value of each lunchbox and notify the non-conformists. Clearly there HAVE been issues with some families packing junk for dinner at the school so a blanket ban on chocolate seems fair enough (I'd say the same if it was crisps or fizzy drinks being banned too).

If you're determined to give your child a chocolate biscuit at lunchtime why don't you let her come home for dinner?

Barneysmom

Put it in her coat pocket and let her eat it when nobody's looking.
The school is wrong, kids should be allowed a treat.
I think the 'powers that be' have gone too far in their quest for the perfect human being.

You are the parent and you're being dictated to...

jennypdolphin

In my school we try to check lunchboxes and in some cases I've opened a box to find a can of pop and choc bar... and thats it!! That is an extreme example but alot of schools are now operating a healthy lunchbox policy and whilst ours allows one treat any more than this is usually removed and returned to mum/dad at the end of the day. It may be a case (as mentioned previously) that too many parents were giving too much junk and then a no choc ban would be the only way for the school to help and support the poor kids who have a very very unhealthy diet. The school meal may not appear healthy but it also has to meet certain set standards.

bumpoowee

jennypdolphin wrote: »

In my school we try to check lunchboxes and in some cases I've opened a box to find a can of pop and choc bar... and thats it!! That is an extreme example but alot of schools are now operating a healthy lunchbox policy and whilst ours allows one treat any more than this is usually removed and returned to mum/dad at the end of the day. It may be a case (as mentioned previously) that too many parents were giving too much junk and then a no choc ban would be the only way for the school to help and support the poor kids who have a very very unhealthy diet. The school meal may not appear healthy but it also has to meet certain set standards.

But parents packing junk food into their kids lunch boxes isnt a cause of crap parenting, its a symptom. Taking away a kids dinner isn't mean his chav parents are going to bother becoming worthwhile human beings. What exactly does this policy try to achieve?

geri1965_2

It also means that the kid would just be left with a can of pop! (assuming they don't remove this as well).

jennypdolphin

If a dinner was that poor as in my example above then the parents would be phoned to either bring in a suitable lunch or to give permission for the child to be given a school dinner - which the parent would then be charged for. It may not be a big help in the whole scheme of parenting but we try to ensure that at least whilst at school the child has a chance of a healthy meal. Plus fizzy pop isnt allowed at all in my school anyway.

Sorry I didnt make that all clear in my previous post (Preggo brain) but we wouldnt leave a kid with no lunch!

hoyles10

People checking kids lunchboxes and a sort of chocolate police patrolling our schools??? The world has gone totally bonkers!!!!

I do hope there are no chocolate bars, biscuits or anything like that in the staff rooms of these schools.