Vent - Utter Brainlessness

sharnad

Maybe the parents will make the child a pack lunch now rather than repeatedly forgetting to pay for his food

eschaton

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

So why punish the child rather than the parents?

They are not punishing the child. They just aren't giving the child food as it wasn't paid for.

It's the real world where you can't expect something for nothing every day of the week.

JimmyTheWig

eschaton wrote: »

They are not punishing the child. They just aren't giving the child food as it wasn't paid for.

It's the real world where you can't expect something for nothing every day of the week.

The child went without something that a child would reasonably expect. That's a punishment.
It wasn't the child who was supposed to pay for the lunch.

eschaton

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

The child went without something that a child would reasonably expect. That's a punishment.
It wasn't the child who was supposed to pay for the lunch.

When I was at school - you took money to pay for lunch or you took lunch with you.

If anyone punished the child then it was the parent(s) that sent them to school with no money and no lunch.

bod1467

I see the post in this thread with the photo of the boy has been nuked.

Azari

I can't believe the complete lack of emotional intelligence being demonstrated here.

Any (healthy) child can make do without lunch from time to time. I did frequently because school dinners were so awful (actually, they weren't I was just fussier than I was hungry).

The 'punishment' is that he was publicly humiliated by being turned away in front of the rest of the diners instead of being quietly and privately taken aside and told that he would not be able to have school lunch that day.

It really doesn't matter what his parents did wrong before or after the event, that was disgusting behaviour on the part of the school and was the main reason I started this thread.

wheezy57

I suspect that daddy got mad as he knew that the school had prompted him to pay his dues and hadnt taken them seriously. The child didn't suffer as such. But will have felt a tad peckish whilst everyone else was eating. Daddy should have paid previous bills and then this wouldnt have happened.

On the other hand I think the school was a little over zealous with its handling of the incident. A quiet word from someone at the end of the day or even the beginning to mummy and/or daddy would have solved this. And not totally blown it all out of proportion.