Kia
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What Would You Do?
Posted: 01-25-07 09:19am
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Someone I know from a different forum got
a phone call from her kids school
yesterday asking her to fetch her youngest
(10 years old).
When she asked why she was told "because
he hasn't eaten his lunch"
well, she and the school both know he is a
picky eater so she offered to take him
some sandwiches.
She was told "no, he needs to be sent home
as punishment for not eating".
The choices on offer yesterday were
vegetable chilli or chicken & potato
pie.
The kid has his sats this year and an
unblemished attendance record - although
the school has said he will have an absent
mark against him for yesterday.
How would you feel if this was your kid?
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foxy
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Posted: 01-25-07 09:24am
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I would be pissed, its not like he doesn't
want to eat it just to be rude....The
school is well aware that he is a picky
eater, so they shouldn't be surprised if
there is something served that he doesn't
want to eat.
I would have assumed that the
teacher/school knowing this would have his
mother on speed dial so that when this
happens they can just call his mom and say
"you need to bring a sandwich today"
sending him home as punishment is
ridiculous.
Eta: if the school had a problem with him
being a picky eater they should have made
it know to his mother as soon as they
became aware and also told her what the
punishment was. Then they could have
come to an understanding/agreement that
she would supply lunch for him everyday to
avoid all of this.
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Kia
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Posted: 01-25-07 09:28am
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She offered to amke him a sandwich to take
for him but nope 
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foxy
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Posted: 01-25-07 09:44am
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That's crazy. I would be mad as hell,
especially if she offered to bring him a
sandwich. The school should not send
kids home because they don't eat their
lunch...A growling stomach later in the
day would be punishment enough!!!
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Posted: 01-25-07 10:18am
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I agree with mamatt, why do they even care
if he skips lunch one day? It's more
important to them that he eat something he
doesn't like than to be there for the
afternoon lessons?
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Melissa_20
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Posted: 01-25-07 10:21am
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| kia_breizzze
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how would you feel if this was your
kid? |
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Kia
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Posted: 01-25-07 10:27am
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Nope, just a regular school
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Melissa_20
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Posted: 01-25-07 10:29am
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| kia_breizzze
wrote: | | nope, just a regular
school |
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Bridget
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Posted: 01-25-07 10:30am
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Not that it matters, but how old is the
kid? And is there a reason she couldn't
bring him a sandwich, are they forced to
eat what the school offers?
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nadia19
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Posted: 01-25-07 10:30am
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I didn't know you .H.A.D to eat at
school?!?! 
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Kia
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Re: What Would You Do?
Posted: 01-25-07 10:37am
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| kia_breizzze
wrote: | | (10 years
old). |
the kid is a picky eater but there is more
chance of him eating more variety if he
has school lunches, because the only
sandwiches he will eat are peanut
butter.
So she doesn't want him to have peanut
butter everyday.
She was happy to make a sandwich and take
it to school for him but the teacher
expressly said "no, he has to be sent home
as punishment for not eating his lunch".
The school used to serve bread and butter
as a side dish, and crackers and cheese as
an "afters" but they stopped because it
was unhealthy what???
Another lady sent her kids to school
(different school) with carrots, grapes,
raisins, orange juice (small carton -
organic), milk (small carton - organic)
and yoghurt covered carob bars. Nice
healthy lunch right???
The teachers took it off him, said he had
to have something from the school
canteen.
Kid gets upset because he wants his own
lunch, and won't eat from the canteen.
Bearing in mind this kid (age 9) is on a
special diet for food allergies.
Now tell me what is so unhealthy about
that lunch box?
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Posted: 01-25-07 10:42am
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Sounds like they're on a power trip. My
brother and I went to a private school for
some of high school and they had a dress
code. One day the vice principal pulled
my brother aside halfway through the day
and told him he had to get his hair cut,
so he said he'd go after school and the
principal said, "no, you'll go now".
Getting his hair cut was more important
than school? Either way he would had his
hair cut by the next day, the guy was just
on a power trip. We didn't last much
longer there.
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Melissa_20
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Posted: 01-25-07 10:45am
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wow,i think I would
tell them where to shove it.
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foxy
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Posted: 01-25-07 10:55am
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Do they pay for the school provided lunch?
If so then in these cases I think the
issue is money, they want all the students
to eat from the school so that they can
get lots of money
.......That's the only reason that I can
think of why it would matter to the school
if they ate the school provided meal or
brought their own from home.
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Melissa_20
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Posted: 01-25-07 10:56am
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| foxy
wrote: | | do they pay for the school
provided lunch? If so then in these
cases I think the issue is money, they
want all the students to eat from the
school so that they can get lots of money
.......That's the only reason that I can
think of why it would matter to the school
if they ate the school provided meal or
brought their own from
home. |
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Posted: 01-25-07 11:09am
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Child #1's mom did the right thing she
offered a solution, now while missing one
day isnt a big deal it may be to them, he
may be happy about his perfect record, and
they ruined it over some lame food.
Child #2's mom needs to go to the school
board, with his allergies they may have
risked his very life forcing him to eat
something.
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Kia
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Posted: 01-25-07 11:13am
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| foxy
wrote: | | do they pay for the school
provided
lunch |
in most uk regular schools (i say regular
because here a public school is actually
private lol confusing I know) you either
pay a weekly sub for your kids school
lunch or you send them with a packed lunch
- parental choice. (although if the
parent(s) are on benefits they get free
school meals for the kids).
So in the case of the first kid his meal
would have been paid for regardless or not
of whether he ate it.
The second kid wouldn't have paid any subs
because he had always been a packed
luncher because of his allergies.
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Melissa_20
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Posted: 01-25-07 11:15am
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| kia_breizzze
wrote: | | foxy
wrote: | | do they pay for the school
provided
lunch |
in most uk regular schools (i say regular
because here a public school is actually
private lol confusing I know) you either
pay a weekly sub for your kids school
lunch or you send them with a packed lunch
- parental choice. (although if the
parent(s) are on benefits they get free
school meals for the
kids). |
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