Dropping dinner at school, Why didnt he get some more

[rebajayne]

My 5 year old has just started school, it was his first full day today and he took pack up. He dosent really like bread so i do him a mini picnic.
I picked him up today and he has a note in his bag saying that he had dropped it on the floor so could not eat it. I asked him what he had eaten he said a few of his crisps and a bit of melon.
The school hadnt given him anything else, which i think is totally out of order. He had to go all day without eating anything.
Am i right to think this? Or is the school right?

[joanne713]

i dont really know about schools and their so called policies but I cant see why they wouldnt have given your son something to eat, I expect the poor little mite was starving. i hope you gave them a piece of your mind, i certainly would have done! the least they could have done is call you (in case of food allergies etc).

[noxlumos]

Doubtless they'll have some ludicrous reason they didn't give him anything ( allergiesm,health and safety, didn't have your permission etc) but it's just par for the course in the wonderful world of stupid behaviour exhibited by Schools.

[rebajayne]

He was starving. A slice of bread would of been better than nothing for him. I havent said anything yet but tommorow morning i will be.
It's really upset me coz i think its hard for them at dinner times anyway. But what does annoy me about food allergies, he has a sugar intolarance yet came home with a freddio bar and some sweets coz it was someones birthday!!! The know he can not have it but still hand them out.

[dilf]

if the floor was clean enough he could have kissed up to god

[Gef]

The mind boggles.

[suzi-q]

Its sad. Poor little boy. You do hope that common sense or plain kindness will prevail in school, especially with the little ones.

Mind you, when my little brother started school (he's 43 now) he moved seats in the dinner hall on his first day and got the slipper - he was only just 5. Poor kid never liked that school for years.

[dancecaller]

When I went to school lunch hour was long enough for children to walk home, eat dinner, play, and walk back.

When my children stared the school encouraged parents to take them home for the first week, as it's a long day.

Now lunch times are shorter, because so few parents want the tie of being around, and many need to work.

No excuse for the school over the sweets

[WendyS]

Political correctness gone mad. You son is hardly likely to die if his some of his food is on the floor for a few seconds. When I think of the number of times I drop stuff on the kitchen floor and just wash it and continue to use it I think the school's attitude beggars belief. And that they didn't give him anything else makes you wonder what they are - school assistants or concentration camp warders. How can a poor little mite of only 5 deal with idiots like this?

[curiosity]

If he really wasn't offered anything then that's wrong, at our primary if someone forgets their packed lunch, they are given one by the school. I'd be careful how you address it though, just in case he was asked and declined. When my first two were in the early years at school I would ask what they had for dinner and they would usually say "nothing","can't remember" or "mash!" I used to get angry thinking doesn't someone make sure they get a decent meal. But I had the luxury of my best friends mam being a dinner assistant who told me they ate very well and sometimes had seconds!

[sense4all]

This is linked - but off at a wee tangent. I am very rarely not avaliable for my wee treasures during the day, but as fate would have it, the one day my son forgot his pre prepared lunch, hubbie was abroad and I was a hundred and fifty miles away. One of the T.A s popped around to her house and made my then ten year old son wait for it ... a peanut butter sandwich. It was all the better - as for weeks I had been telling him that they were not allowed in school (due to the major listing sent home barring loads of allergy related foodstuffs) . I was glad he got something but did feel that they could have done better, than a banned sandwich and the water cooler for a drink.