I am underwhelmed to see that Nanny thinks it more important to police what parents put in their kids' lunch boxes, rather than provide kids with a decent education.
Such is the sorry tale to emerge from Colnbrook C of E Primary School, wherein Riley Pearson (six years old) was suspended for four days after Nanny discovered some Mini Cheddars in his packed lunch.
Riley's parents met with headmaster Jeremy Meek, after they were sent a letter telling them Riley would be excluded from Wednesday until Monday because he had been 'continuously breaking school rules' wrt "healthy eating".
Parents were told in January:
"Chocolate, sweets, crisps and fizzy drinks are not allowed.
If your child's lunchbox is unhealthy and unbalanced they will be provided with a school lunch for which you will be charged."
Irrespective of whether the school has the right to judge what is "healthy" or not in a child's lunchbox, the letter does not mention anything about suspending pupils who are found with "forbidden" food.
Riley's mother, Natalie Mardle, is quoted by the
Mail:
"We just do not see how they have the right to tell us what we can feed our son.
If anything, Riley is underweight and could do with putting on a few pounds.
Having a balanced diet also includes eating some carbohydrates, sugars and fats.
I would understand the exclusion if he was constantly throwing tables around or bullying other children, but it is just ridiculous for a packet of Mini Cheddars."
Headteacher Mr Meek said:
"We have had a wonderful response and the parents and children are on board and pleased with the way the policy has been impacted on our pupils.
We cannot talk about individual circumstances, but there is one family who are not prepared to support the policy. We are in discussions with them about how we move it forward. We have excluded [the pupil] for four days due to lack of support for the policy.
It is to avoid putting the children in a difficult situation. If the policy is not being abided by, then that potentially harms that pupil."
I don't see how suspending the pupil (if he has not been disruptive) is at all helpful.
The disruption caused by pupils who are high on fizzy drinks and endless bags of crisps etc is as a result of them eating shit all day long, where a pupil has a balanced diet that includes a modest "indulgence" that pupil will not be disruptive because of that single "indulgence".
FYI, Riley has now been expelled and his younger brother suspended from the pre-school. Seemingly there have been "
persistent and deliberate breach of school policy, such as bringing in crisps, biscuits, sausage rolls, mini sausages, scotch eggs and similar."
It is clear that the relationship between the parents and the school has completely broken down. The school also said the decision was taken because of (as per the
Mail) "
the parent school relationship suffering an irretrievable breakdown" due to "
misrepresentations in the local and national media that were both wholly inaccurate and grossly misleading, abusive language being used towards staff, and other inappropriate actions being taken that were designed to damage the school’s reputation".
Thus we see that both Riley and his brother's education are now suffering.
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