School lunch rant - Would you complain?

Gingham_Ribbon

I'm speechless. Although I can't stand the culture of parents complaining to schools, there are times when it is necessary and this is one of them. That's a lovely, healthy meal and you can be proud of your daughter. The TA's behaviour (and presumably the school policy) is a recipe for eating disorders and it MUST be stopped.

Doom_and_Gloom

Wow this is horrible. How can they take away what you gave your child when it was a lot healthier than their option?

As for the same thing basically all the time for the vegetarian option I am speachless. I'm not even 21 yet and in primary and secondary we had vegetarian options every day. I've had a look at the primary school I went to on line and they even state they give a vegetarian option every day and will cater for allergies, religions etc (looks like they work on a 3 week rota which I think they also did when I was there :rotfl:). Things like vegetable hot pot, vegetable curry, veggie toad in the hole are very easy and cost very little. Maybe OP if you gave them examples of cheap and easy to make vegetarian options the cook won't just cook maccoroni and cheese? I would say it is blatant discrimination against vegetarians by not giving them the same kind of variety that the children who eat meat obviously get. Say that if it is not changed you will be willing to take it to the governers as it is not right. No matter what a child eats (meat or non-meat) they should be able to eat a nutritious meal!

By the way elvis86 being vegetarian is no more of a choice to some of us than being gay is for others. Being a vegan is who I am, for others being a vegetarian is who they are just like being gay is who you are. I couldn't eat anything from an animal as it's just not who I am.

tomstickland

It also said that the amount of food she brought was far too much.

What's it got to do with them and what did they do with the uneaten lunch?

cathys1_2

OP, I feel your anger right now!

I am having a similar issue with ds preschool, removing a pack of mini jammi dodgems and telling him they are unhealthy. (the rest of his lunch was super healthy like yours.) I believe that allowing my child to have a small treat at the end of his meal will mean he wont binge on them when he's older, or hide and steal from the cupboards like many children I know do whose parents don't alow them any.
My issue is the fact that preschool decorate biscuits with icing sugar and sweets as an activity, and allowed them birthday cake as part of "healthy snack" yesterday, but a little pack of biscuits after healthy lunch is no good :mad:

The excuse I'm being given is "ofsted will tell us off. " Excuse me but what a load of carp! If you're going to use another authority to tell parents what to do, you cant bend those rules to suit you, because you're too lazy to do a proper cooking activity with the children!:eek:

I'm pleased you've managed to educate your ta.

I'm now in the process of trying to educate my preschool, that young children actually need more calories and fat, because they burn it off faster. I totally understand why people are putting comments about home schooling etc - my first instinct was to take him out too.

Rant over, but still mad that people like us get put through this.:mad:

BexInLondon

Sounds like the TA needs urgent re-training in nutrition, or to come off lunch duty completely. If no apology from her is forthcoming the head needs to sit down with your child and confirm that mum's food choices are excellent. Your poor kid!

I'd like to join the queue of those wanting the OP to make me a packed lunch too! Sounds delicious.

Gemmy_2

There was something like this in yesterdays mail.

poet123

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

By the way elvis86 being vegetarian is no more of a choice to some of us than being gay is for others. Being a vegan is who I am, for others being a vegetarian is who they are just like being gay is who you are. I couldn't eat anything from an animal as it's just not who I am.

OT I know, but this is just not accurate, you may believe it to be so but no one is born vegan or vegetarian, it is a choice. That cannot be said of being Gay. If it was a choice between starvation (in the truest sense of the word) then you would eat whatever was available, that much has been proven in many sad arenas worldwide, and throughout history. You may think that you would not, but evidence shows otherwise.

itsallinthemind

poet123 wrote: »

OT I know, but this is just not accurate, you may believe it to be so but no one is born vegan or vegetarian, it is a choice.

We are born Atheist breast milk consumers until our parents change that, or we do?

Gingham_Ribbon

poet123 wrote: »

you would eat whatever was available... You may think that you would not, but evidence shows otherwise.

I think that's true of many vegans, but not all. Again, as an aside:

My friend broke his back and refused pain killers in hospital because they were tested on animals. At that time, he would have refused life saving medication rather than take something that animals had suffered for.

OP, have you been able to speak to the school yet?

poet123

Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

I think that's true of many vegans, but not all. Again, as an aside:

My friend broke his back and refused pain killers in hospital because they were tested on animals. At that time, he would have refused life saving medication rather than take something that animals had suffered for.

OP, have you been able to speak to the school yet?

With regard to the medication, I can understand that more I suppose, but hunger is a more basic human condition, and I suspect that in the final analysis almost all of us would succumb to eating whatever was available rather than slowly starve to death. Of course, even those who say they wouldnt cannot say for sure until put to that test. My real point was that it is a choice, unlike being gay.