I am of the view that any changes made to improve the health of our children (and therefore our future nation) are positive and should be embarked upon at any cost.
I reacted with total shock when I read a news article today about 2 mothers at a british school who are taking orders over the school fence for burgers and fish and chips, and then delivering them to kids in school. Apparently this is a protest at the new healthier menu.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18092006/344/bu…
I have given my 4 children packed lunches for years to try and encourage healthier eating, prior to the school dinner improvements.
I hadn’t ever considered that some parents would hold another view.
I think they’re bonkers, and infringing upon the rights of other parents to feed their children healthily. Their only right is to choose the diet of their own children.
What do you think?
I’d like to find out and then email the results to the school suffering the protest.
For psstthok.
Are you a parent? I’m interested to know.
Firstly, children are ‘locked’ within their schools until they reach 6th form. This is common practice and for the safety of children. When we send our children to school we want to know where they are.
Secondly, the lunch timetable was altered, but after looking further, it appears that it wasn’t shortened. Thus, the kids had the same amount of time as before to collect and eat their lunch.
And last but not least, even if the parents had felt that their children ‘were starving’ as you suggested, they only have to right to provide junk food to their own children.
If they were that worried perhaps they should have gotten off their backsides (or out of their beds) and prepared a packed school lunch before their children went to school.
Sorry, but the carpool theory doesn’t work on this one. They were providing food for several other children and not just to each others children.
Nevertheless, thankyou for your answer.
What they did was wrong on many levels
1) Undermining their children’s health
2)Undermining other people children’s health
3)Undermining the school ( these same parents will blame schools for not doing enough if their children become delinquent
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4)If as has been suggested they are taking money from other peoples children for food then they are operating as a food supplier ( profit or not makes no difference) then they are subject to health and safety and hygiene laws which clearly they are breaking and could and should be prosecuted
and finally
If they have time to go to the school take orders go to the takeaway and deliver it back they have time to make a decent packed lunch and give it to their own kids.
They are lazy ignorant and frankly criminally negligent.
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