Can school force my child to stay in during lunchtime

PolishBigSpender

My God, I'm sitting here almost shaking in disbelief and in horror of what the British education system is doing to children.

Please, for the sake of every child in the school, do not compromise on this matter!

ben500

Fruit when I was a child consisted of tinned peaches and ideal milk on a Sunday evening.

Lots of veg though, I remember butter beans, I think they were punishment for some unknown midemeanor I had commited through the week.

JBD

ben500 wrote: »

Fruit when I was a child consisted of tinned peaches and ideal milk on a Sunday evening.

Lots of veg though, I remember butter beans, I think they were punishment for some unknown midemeanor I had commited through the week.

LOL, I remember tinned broad beans ,once we were even given tinned spinach. It's the sort of thing you try your hardest to forget. Still we all seem to have survived.

welshmoneylover

I love butter beans, but broad beans, urgh, I think I'd rather join the foreign legion than eat those things.

shellsuit

Oooh butter beans, I used to LOVE them when I was younger but hated it as they only came in a small tin so we didn't have a lot of them each.

I've bought them since I had my own house, but they're not the same. No matter how I cook them they always turn out like bullets, yuk!!

Lunar_Eclipse

minxtress wrote: »

I said I couldnt afford to give my son in excessof £3 every day for his meal and bus fare so what would my options be then? She said buy a cheaper sandwich and have a large meal at lunchtime. QUOTE]


If you can't afford for your son to have school meals, you will be provided them free of charge. A call to your school office or LEA is the normal first step in the application process for them, depending on your locality.

I'm surprised she didn't mention this to you in your meeting to be honest.

However, definitions of what people can and cannot afford are highly subjective.

JBD

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

minxtress wrote: »

I said I couldnt afford to give my son in excessof £3 every day for his meal and bus fare so what would my options be then? She said buy a cheaper sandwich and have a large meal at lunchtime. QUOTE]


If you can't afford for your son to have school meals, you will be provided them free of charge. A call to your school office or LEA is the normal first step in the application process for them, depending on your locality.

I'm surprised she didn't mention this to you in your meeting to be honest.

However, definitions of what people can and cannot afford are highly subjective.

I don't understand how £3 per. meal is justified anyway? The most I have ever paid is £2. My daughter's meals [junior school] cost £1.80 per day.
Also as far as I am aware only parents on income support/benefits are entitled to claim for school meals. IRL many parents cannot afford school meals.

BeenieCat

At my sons school you are only entitled to free meals if you earn less than £13k or something BUT you have to be getting CTC and not WTC. So basically if you work and earn 6k you're not entitled.

juliescot

A long thread I know - but something just doesn't sit right with the story.......

Last minute notification of changes with no consultation.
Child threatened with being "impaled" by teacher.
Head telling parent to buy cheaper sandwiches.

:rolleyes:

Katie-Kat-Kins

I'm surprised how many people think the OP should not challenge a rule she disagrees with. I do not think that it is an acceptable example to set to a teenager that we should blindly accept anything someone in authority tells us.

We shouldn't be teaching them to break rules, but we should teach them to challenge unfair/nonsensical rules through the appropriate channels. If we don't we will end up with a nation of sheep blindly doing as the government tell them whether that is right or not.

It is terrible what we put up with already in this country without doing anything but grumble, compared with say france where they would be out on the streets protesting. We need to stand up for ourselves and not allow those in authority to trample us. Rules should be made for the benefit of the majority, it doesn't seem that the rules imposed here have been or that they have been well thought through or accompanied by proper consultation so in my mind both Mum and Son are right to challenge the school and make them aware of the affect this rule has.

If we do nothing, those in authority believe that what they have done is acceptable and will continue to come up with gradually more extreme rules erroding more and more freedoms. It is a good time to remember the poem first they came:



First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.