is this inappropriate behaviour by a head teacher?

seven-day-weekend

I'm surprised that the Head has nothing better to do with his/her time than check everybody's luchbox. I'm sure they went through years of teaching and management training just to do that.

I actually don't think schools should have to do this. Their responsibility, imo, should be to provide a healthy meal at lunchtime and 'flag up' children who obviously are unhealthy/neglected.

Bufger

I would write a letter to the head asking where all this confiscated food was going. Write that you purchased these items for the consumption of your family and if an outside source decides to take these items from your family you would consider it as theft. Request that the food is sent back to your address to be distributed amongst other family members so you are not at a financial loss.

I would also go as far as to ask to see a copy of the headteachers degree in diatetics (or other relevant qualification) in order for her to prove that this information is indeed accurate and comes from a professional source thats qualified to give lectures to the public.

But then again i am a complete bastage and love making peoples lives a misery :rotfl::D:mad::beer:

kegg_2

all very well saying they shouldn't check lunch boxes but what about when a child brings a cold mcdonalds hamburger as their lunch? Should they say something then?

And yes it did happen in my sons school.

moromir

Just out of curiousity - a cheese sandwich can be a lot of things.

It can be a square of reformatted plastic in between two peices of plastic white bread smeared with butter, or it can be 'real' cheese in 'real' bread.

Don't get me wrong, your school does seem a bit over zealous and certainly shouldn't be taking away food (but I presume they were offered an alternative from the school dinners menu?).

aliasojo

kegg wrote: »

all very well saying they shouldn't check lunch boxes but what about when a child brings a cold mcdonalds hamburger as their lunch? Should they say something then?

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I actually don't think schools should have to do this. Their responsibility, imo, should be to provide a healthy meal at lunchtime and 'flag up' children who obviously are unhealthy/neglected.

I think that would fall under sdw's point. Most children will not have a lunch as extreme as that.

Bufger

kegg wrote: »

all very well saying they shouldn't check lunch boxes but what about when a child brings a cold mcdonalds hamburger as their lunch? Should they say something then?

And yes it did happen in my sons school.

Why should this be up to the school? It should be a parents responsibility to make sure their child has a healthy balanced diet, it should be up to the parent to make sure their child gets some excercise, it should be up to the parent to actually raise their child!!!!!!!!!

The school should provide healthy meals if the children are eating school dinners.

Its easy to blame a school but should they even be doing it in the first place? NO! why are they doing it? because most parents in this god awfull poor excuse for a country of ours are just too damn lazy to even consider the welfare of their own children and should be steralised (contraversial!). Its just easier to blame an institution for their own failings.

No point in skirting around the issue :eek:

aliasojo

moromir wrote: »

...............(but I presume they were offered an alternative from the school dinners menu?).

Even if that were the case (and I don't believe it is, most of the time) the school meal might not necessarily be much better, regardless of whatever 'policies' they are supposed to be following with regards to healthy eating.

Our school meals can swing from 'quite good' to 'an utter disgrace' all within the same week.

mum-of-two_2

kegg wrote: »

all very well saying they shouldn't check lunch boxes but what about when a child brings a cold mcdonalds hamburger as their lunch? Should they say something then?

And yes it did happen in my sons school.

Shame on that child's parents then.

Sure, the teachers can say something about a cold McD burger - but shouldn't the appropriate comment be addressed to the parents, not the child?

mum-of-two_2

moromir wrote: »

Just out of curiousity - a cheese sandwich can be a lot of things.

It can be a square of reformatted plastic in between two peices of plastic white bread smeared with butter, or it can be 'real' cheese in 'real' bread.

Don't get me wrong, your school does seem a bit over zealous and certainly shouldn't be taking away food (but I presume they were offered an alternative from the school dinners menu?).

I agree - in one of my earlier posts I said that I vary the bread I use for sandwiches - granary, wholemeal, 50/50, etc - and I buy healthy choice cheese.

The cheese sandwich wasn't confiscated, it was commented on which made my daughter self-concious about eating it.

Food confiscated includes low-fat crisps/snacks and the (I admit) high sugar Nutrigrain bar.
No alternative was offered.

Churchmouse

moromir wrote: »

Just out of curiousity - a cheese sandwich can be a lot of things.

It can be a square of reformatted plastic in between two peices of plastic white bread smeared with butter, or it can be 'real' cheese in 'real' bread.

Don't get me wrong, your school does seem a bit over zealous and certainly shouldn't be taking away food (but I presume they were offered an alternative from the school dinners menu?).

And if I found out the head was "manhandling" my child's food to the extent of being able to deduce all that, I'd be furious.

I also suspect that children will be left short of food, rather than being given healthy stuff (free of course) from the school menu.