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LOL DIZZI Hope you are ok xx

OH BUGGER YOU SURE
THOUGHT TWO WEEKS OFF WAS TOO GOOD
TO BE TRUE LOL XX

So, if we send children to school with four packets of mini cheddars, will they get two weeks off school during term time, for a holiday. Only joking of course I know this would not happen. :-D

BUT I WAS A DINNER LADY IN THE 70s AND CRISPS WERE THE NORMAL

I WAS A DINNER LADY AND I CAN JUST IMAGINE THE
REPLY IF WE SAID THAT SOMETHING COULD NOT
BE IN A LUNCH BOX
ONLY THING WE DIDNT LIKE WAS CHOCOLATE IN THE SUMMER
YUCK

I remember when I was at primary school in the 60s no one had packed lunch and we had to eat what we were given (no choice that I remember)

The only time I got a packed lunch was one day a week when the school took the non swimmers to a pool and we wouldn't be back in time.....Just a couple of sandwiches wrapped in tin foil no extras :-D

I agree Sylvia, I really think moderation is needed over this issue of healthy school lunch boxes. I really can't see that a pk of mini cheddars should lead to a child being excluded from school for four days!!! If the school feels so strongly about this matter perhaps they should issue all parents with a list of acceptable foods for their children's daily picnic - bit like getting a diet sheet from the surgery when you're trying to lose weight! then this problem wouldn't arise.

Probably a biscuit Elizabeth

It may not be classed as healthy eating to give a child a pack of mini cheddars in his lunch box but it could have been something worse, ie a chocolate bar . Do not get me wrong I am all for healthy eating but, who gives schools the right to say what someone elses child should or should not eat.

Jax - is that something nourishing your avatar has in his hand?

My kids would have been banned full time if they did that when they were at school :-D

We lived in a pub so mini cheddars were quite a normal thing to add along with crisps...as we had those behind the bar

Wonder if pork scratchings and peperami's are banned.....at least they ate something

its time the school did what its there for to teach the children
nothing to do with them what a child eats
unless its a obvious health and safety issue or neglect

Many people ignore the law that bans the use of mobile phones when they are driving because it doesn't suit them to obey it so why would anybody take notice of that one.

Didn't it cause inconvenience when people didn't pay the poll tax too?

I think school's put policys in place for a reason, n iv been on school trips were iv witnessed one 6 year old have 4, yes 4 bars of chocolate in her packed lunch, I support the schools healthy eating policy because its better for our children,

however exclusion for 4 days is rediculious, I too like mini chedders

Certainly not defending the school but I do feel the need to point out it isn't the schools fining people for taking kids on holiday it's the government. Two different things. So no double standard.

I like mini cheddars.

So, you want a few days away in term time. You don't want to pay a silly fine so what else can you do?

You can send your child to school with a bag of Mini Cheddars!

I agree that the child should not have taken mini cheddars in his lunch box but not allowing him in school for 4 days!!!! If the parent had taken the child out of school for a holiday they would have been fined. Double standards here I think. Just my opinion.

I think this is very hard on the child - but I can't believe it was done without a previous warning to the family. Surely there must have been a previous occasion when the family were told that they must provide a better meal or else?

Mini Cheddars are horrible anyway.

It is probably abusive behaviour to feed them to a child.

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‘We just do not see how they have the right to tell us what we can feed our son."

Actually they can, if its on the school premises in school time. Think how fair it is to the other kids who abide by the healthy eating rule, seeing another child eat whatever they want "because of your rights".

Not eating chocolate or biscuits at lunch wont kill a child, save the banned food for after 3pm, when its your rights to change your child out of its uniform, let them watch telly & parent in which way you wish.

How hard is it to change one aspect of your child's lunch?
And for the record, those packets the child is holding are enormous. Leaving that out of his lunchbox wont make a dent in how much this 6 year old needs to eat at school, and most schools will offer a snack, mid morning included or paid for so he wont starve!