For a change I agree with this school board. even though they suspended a 6 year old.

[Willy]

The parents were warned to give only healthy foods for lunch and they didn't. I say good on them for protecting children from junk food.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...s-lunchbox-has-now-been-expelled-9109722.html

A six-year-old boy suspended for having a packet of Mini Cheddars in his lunchbox has now been expelled from school.

Riley Pearson was suspended for four days last Wednesday from Colnbrook CofE Primary School in Berkshire, after teachers found the packet of snacks in his lunchbox.
He had been due to return to school on Tuesday, but his parents say that both Riley and his four-year-old brother have now been permanently excluded because of the row over what he eats for lunch.

Tom Pearson, Riley's father, said: "We should have had a meeting to get Riley back into school at 9am [on Tuesday], myself and my father arrived on time and we were told that the meeting cannot take place," according to the Slough and South Bucks Observer.
"At lunchtime on the same day I had a call from the school saying that we [the school] have given Riley permanent exclusion and his four-year-old brother's place in nursery has been withdrawn."

The school, near Slough, had recently sent a letter to parents saying that from January 14 packed lunches should be "healthy and balanced".
Parents were told: "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."

Riley's parents met the head teacher Jeremy Meek last week, who told them that they had been “continuously breaking school rules” .
Mr Meek denied that the boys had been expelled only because of the contents of Riley's lunchbox.

In a statement the school said a pupil had been permanently excluded because "during the course of a recent four day exclusion, the pupil’s parents made it publicly clear that their child would not be following the school's policy on healthy eating upon their return".

It also said the decision was taken because of "the parent school relationship suffering an irretrievable breakdown that would have put [the] two pupils in an unacceptable position".

The school said: "This breakdown was 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."

Mr Pearson, who lives Colnbrook, said: "He is just six-years-old, all he does is take his lunchbox to school, it's us who puts the food into his lunchbox.
"We as a family believe that Riley is taking a well balanced lunch to school and that no rules have been broken. "

Riley's mother, Natalie Mardle, said his lunch usually consists of a sandwich, yoghurt tube, Dairylea Dunkers cheese spread snack, a packet of Mini Cheddars, and water.
She said Rily eats healthy, well-balanced meals at home, according to the Daily Mail.

According to government guidelines, school meals must be balanced and have fruit, vegetables, bread, cereal and meat, poultry or oily fish. Fizzy drinks, crisps, chocolate or sweets in school meals are ruled out.

 

[Virus]

This is why there there are so many children overweight. People have to be better educated : "We as a family believe that Riley is taking a well balanced lunch to school and that no rules have been broken. "


You guys believe this is a healthy lunch? : his lunch usually consists of a sandwich, yoghurt tube, Dairylea Dunkers cheese spread snack, a packet of Mini Cheddars, and water.

 

[Prick]

If they are going to grow up to be fat there is nothing you can do. They will sneak behind your back and eat pizza, big macs and KFC.

True.

 

[User-E]

Unfortunately, junk food is cheaper than healthy food. Many families simply cannot afford to feed their children healthy meals. Keeping the kids full and not hungry, is their priority.

(speaking from past experience as a low income single parent)

 

[User-E]

The best solution I've seen was in a low income neighbourhood in Kelowna. They knew that many of their students didn't eat breakfast before they came to school, and many of them had no lunch packed for them either. They started a very low cost lunch program and fed all the kids a nutritious meal every day.

Some schools have gardens that are tended by the students, to grow their own vegetables for their lunch programs. So many workable solutions.

 

[Boing]

The best solution I've seen was in a low income neighbourhood in Kelowna. They knew that many of their students didn't eat breakfast before they came to school, and many of them had no lunch packed for them either. They started a very low cost lunch program and fed all the kids a nutritious meal every day.

Some schools have gardens that are tended by the students, to grow their own vegetables for their lunch programs. So many workable solutions.

Who paid for it?.

 

[HOF]

Unfortunately, junk food is cheaper than healthy food. Many families simply cannot afford to feed their children healthy meals. Keeping the kids full and not hungry, is their priority.

(speaking from past experience as a low income single parent)

This is the cold, hard truth; it's cheaper to eat crap than it is to eat well.

 

[HOF]

The best solution I've seen was in a low income neighbourhood in Kelowna. They knew that many of their students didn't eat breakfast before they came to school, and many of them had no lunch packed for them either. They started a very low cost lunch program and fed all the kids a nutritious meal every day.

Some schools have gardens that are tended by the students, to grow their own vegetables for their lunch programs. So many workable solutions.

I would rather see children getting 2 healthy meals at school, breakfast, lunch and possibly even snacks and even as a childless single male, I'd have no problem with some of my taxes going towards this. It would be better and cheaper in the long to have children eat healthy than to become obese, diabetic and so on for a lifetime.

Another problem is that far too often what we had as a treat, is part of the normal diet for too many children and their families and that's part of economics and laziness.

 

[User-E]

Who paid for it?.

I believe parents were asked to contribute if they could (at a very low cost per meal), they did fund raising and it was partially government subsidized. There are so many low income kids in BC, the government started programs like this to help in some communities.