school dinner = fuming

[Blue Smarties]

Has it been said yet? I'd spaff on the dinner ladies face and make her eat the butties herself.

 

[johnmc]

How about this scenario instead of assuming that this woman is a power crazy nutjob instead of a caring lady who wants to make sure that the children she looks after are well fed and eat what their parents send in.

Little girl opens packed lunch. Has the drink and takes a bit of a sandwich. Her friends, who had been there a bit longer and finished their lunch, get up to leave the table and go outside to play. Little girl wraps up her sandwich with one bite taken and goes to drop it in the bin -which only has a few crisp packets and plastic bags in it. Dinner lady sees this and, knowing that the child hasn't had a proper lunch tells her she cant go out until she's finished her sandwich. Child sulks and has another bite, wraps sandwich up again and drops it in the bin.

Dinner lady sees her do this and tells her to take it off the top of the pile and eat the dinner that her parents have sent in for her to eat. Little girl eats it and is sent out to play. Little girl is pissed at dinner lady and, as they do - I know I have one of my own, twists the story a little to get sympathy from parent and have a dig at the nasty dinner lady who stopped her playing out with her friends.

I'd love to know how the parent would react if the dinner lady just let his little girl throw her dinner in the bin and go without anything to eat. Would they be fuming that this woman did nothing - the woman who is there to oversee the kids and ensure that they eat what they're sent to school with and not let them just have a drink and biscuit to see them through til 6 oclock when they have the family meal at home.

Soon be on here moaning that his child was put in a potentially dangerous position as she could have collapsed and banged her head and ended up in hospital having stitches. Be complaining that he sends his daughter into school with a well balanced and nutritional lunch that he expects the school makes sure she eats as young children do not understand the importance of healthy eating etc. If the bin is anything like the one at my daughters school it is used for putting waste from packed lunches in - cling film, tin foil and plastic bags. Might be an odd apple core in there but it's not a slop bucket.

Some of the responses on here are pathetic. Had this woman stuffed the food down the childs throat I could understand but for doing this people want her sacking and are making her out to be some sort of psychopath. Get a grip.

Spot on, it happened to my little girl when she was seven, she had to stand under the clock for not eating her dinner, so I marched into school like a maniac only to be told she was hardly touching her lunch and beacause she was so small for her age they felt I wouldn't be happy at her wasting food. They promised not to punish her again and that was that.
The reasons you give in your post though are so true everyone else finished before her and she wanted to go out and play. She's a teacher herself now, so no long term harm was done by the nasty dinner lady. :).

Being told to stand under clock isnt really comparable

 

[simmers]

Kids should be taught not to waste food

 

[johnmc]

Kids should be taught not to waste food

I agree - this isnt the way to do it though.

ALso you dont know if this is a common thing with this child or a one off where they may have been given an extra busicuit at the morning break by mistake or had an extra weetabix for breakfast, or just not that hungry. It happens. Being made to eat a sandwich will not help if there are other issues.

 

[york away to this!]

FFS - 12 pages!

Hope the wasteful little beast has learnt a good lesson - let that be an end to it or you'll all be sent to the headmaster's study for a good thrashing...

 

[simmers]

Has anyone heard the dinner lady's side of the story? Did anyone else witness what happened?

If it were me I'd ask if I could have a brief meeting with the lady in question as well as the headteacher and allow her the chance to give her interpretation of events as there are always two sides of a story

 

[Didsbury Dave]

In the whole history of the internet I have never read a thread on any subject on any forum which contained the word "fuming" in the title, and which didn't leave me thinking "What a dick". Not sure why this is, but it's a rule which stands firm.

 

[mancityvstoke]

In the whole history of the internet I have never read a thread on any subject on any forum which contained the word "fuming" in the title, and which didn't leave me thinking "What a dick". Not sure why this is, but it's a rule which stands firm.

are you fuming then?

 

[dronefromsector7g]

In the whole history of the internet I have never read a thread on any subject on any forum which contained the word "fuming" in the title, and which didn't leave me thinking "What a dick". Not sure why this is, but it's a rule which stands firm.

are you fuming then?

Maybe he'll make a thread about it.

 

[stonerblue]

In the whole history of the internet I have never read a thread on any subject on any forum which contained the word "fuming" in the title, and which didn't leave me thinking "What a dick". Not sure why this is, but it's a rule which stands firm.

afuckingreed