Lunch Isolation

[Yaya_Tony]

Bear Grylls hasn't got any daughters, he's got 3 sons. Maybe this was Peter Duncan's daughters- he has 3 girls and one boy who, except the eldest child would have been of scouting age when he was chief scout. It has been compulsory to allow girls into scouts since 2007 and has been optional since 1991. They were even allowed into venture scouts when I was a lad.
Oddly enough atheists have only had their own scout promise since 2014.

On your conversation about shorts, in the 70's our district commissioner decided it would be good fun to dress up as hitler before sending the whole camp on an evening ramble. The police weren't too impressed when they had to find 100 of us lost on marsden moor after the map they gave us was drawn wrong and the bloke organising it all is stood there with his funny tache, nazi armband, dodgy shorts and knobbly knees.

You're right mate it is Peter Duncan, think it was around 2006 they let girls in. Mistaken. Regards shorts, I've worn nowt but shorts and boots in a thunderstorm to put my tent up. No socks or boxers, then dried off.

At least the leaders weren't getting you to sniff lampposts for onions..

 

[stonerblue]

10 No.10 and a book of matches - 10p

1 No6 and 2 matches- 2p.

 

[LWashington]

Halfway through senior school I stopped caring about food at lunchtime so much and started to hunt for the elusive "girl in the yard with her milshake", that everyone seemed to be going on about.

 

[sir baconface]

Lunch? Pfft.

The little mardarses should be sent up chimneys or down the mines instead of poncing about at school.

 

[johnny on the spot]

I was talking to my father in law last night about this (he's a retired teacher, ex senior management). His view was that while this guy has played it completely wrong by placing the kids in isolation, parents take the piss far too much when it comes to paying schools for pretty much anything. Dinners, trips, after school clubs, you name it. If a head or management come across as a soft touch then some parents just won't pay up without a scrap.

Shaming the kids is just a ****'s trick and displays weakness in the face of uncooperative adults. If numerous parents genuinely can't afford for their kids to eat a school meal then a review of pricing should be held. A lot of school dinner schemes are contracted out and if the prices are too high then it's the greedy suppliers who should be dealt with. If the food's crap then likewise the finger should be pointed at the contractor.

Mrs Jots is also a teacher and has a school dinner every day (in the staff room). The £2 a day she pays for that gets her much better nutrition, quality and choice than a Greggs or supermarket takeout and it means she gets at least one scratch-cooked meal a day (we often get in from work at odd times). This was especially important while she was pregnant. Given that a number of the parents of her class spend all day in the nearest pub or bookies before serving up pot noodles and micro chips to their offspring, it becomes clear how important it is that school dinners are affordable and decent.