Am i over reacting?

[Grannygrinder]

My daughter is 9 and attends the local Primary school.
She and my wife were discussing an incident that happened at school, to another pupil, over dinner yesterday.

The kids who take packed lunches to school are also allowed to take a snack for morning break.
If a child takes a snack which is full or fat or sugar the other pupils are being actively encouraged to 'grass them up' to the teachers.
Should a pupil be found to have an unhealthy snack on 3 occasions it is now common practice for make them to be made to stand up in front of the whole school during assembly to explain why they are eating unhealthy snacks :shock:

I am fuming :evil:
It maybe wouldn't be as bad if it wasn't for the fact that the Headmaster is massively overweight.

Over reacting? :?

PS. It will never happen to my daughter as she takes carrots for morning break as thats what she likes

 

[RobMac]

Over reacting? No! No! That's not right, when was humiliation added to the school curriculum.

 

[David B]

My daughter is 9 and attends the local Primary school.
She and my wife were discussing an incident that happened at school, to another pupil, over dinner yesterday.

The kids who take packed lunches to school are also allowed to take a snack for morning break.
If a child takes a snack which is full or fat or sugar the other pupils are being actively encouraged to 'grass them up' to the teachers.
Should a pupil be found to have an unhealthy snack on 3 occasions it is now common practice for make them to be made to stand up in front of the whole school during assembly to explain why they are eating unhealthy snacks :shock:

I am fuming :evil:
It maybe wouldn't be as bad if it wasn't for the fact that the Headmaster is massively overweight.

Over reacting? :?

PS. It will never happen to my daughter as she takes carrots for morning break as thats what she likes

Surely a good head teacher should lead by example, rather than being a blatant salad-dodger?

David

 

[gavinda]

No you aren't overreacting at all. Tis ridiculous. I do think parents should be encouraged to send healthy stuff to school, but humiliating a child is t the right way to do it. You could send a letter asking l the fat teachers to stand up and explan how they got I that state to begin with, but I guarantee it won't help and certainly won't do your girl any favours.

 

[Kerplunk]

I am fuming :evil:
It maybe wouldn't be as bad if it wasn't for the fact that the Headmaster is massively overweight.

I'd be having a polite word with the headmaster to say that as the lead role model in the school he probably isn't setting the best example.

The name and shame thing is just wrong and I'm surprised they're allowed to do it. That type of thing can badly affect kids confidence and justs picks them out as a target. My 5 year old would just say the reason why he's eating unhealthy snacks is that they taste nice.

 

[lumos2000]

first day of school my daughter took a packet of chrips some chocolate biscuits and a packet of peanuts, all were conficated leaving her with one sandwich for the day :roll:
a big fat teacher stinking of cigarets had the cheak to talk to my wife about healty life styles. :?

 

[al]

Please give him a slap on my behalf.

You could name and shame him, like he seems to want to do to his pupils

al.

 

[legrandefromage]

Send her in with a McDonalds breakfast

 

[petitpal]

The thing that really gets my goat about this is the basic assumption that because you kid might like a chocolate bar to get them through the restrictively curriculum lead, probably badly taught <bleeping> school day - they must, therefore, be tragically unhealthy and their parent's hideous monsters who hate them and don't know one end of a vegatable from another.

Yes, I agree with people like Jamie Oliver pushing healthy options at school but this is several degree of wrong away from that. Take the example where some kid's parent always sends them with crisps - regardless of what the kids says (because they're cheap or whatever). What happens then? Kid gets stigmatised, or refuses to eat leading to genuine life problems.

Seriously - they really need to seriously think that policy; bunch of mindless self serving, box ticking <bleeps>.

Edit: yes, I'm having a bad day. :roll:

 

[RobMac]

Tip off your local paper whats going on :twisted: