A preschool teacher has told a mum to stop packing ‘disgusting’ lunches for her son, because the ‘unpleasant’ odour is a distraction to the other students.
The 34-year-old mum says her five-year-old loves the lunches, and she can’t understand why there’s a problem.
“A few hours after I picked him up from school today, I got a phone call from his teacher,” she explained on reddit.
“She made absolutely no effort to sound kind when she, in an extremely rude and annoyed tone, told me to stop packing my son such ‘disgusting and inappropriate’ lunches. I felt absolutely appalled when she said this, as me and the teacher have, up until now, always maintained a very friendly relationship.
“She added that the lunches I’m packing my son are, ‘very distracting for the other students and have an unpleasant odour.’. I told her that I understand her concerns, as the lunches I pack are definitely not the healthiest, but the lunches are according to my son’s preferences.”
So what is the highly offensive lunch?
“The usual lunch that I send him to school with is small celery sticks with blue cheese and goat cheese, kimchi and spam (we are Korean and he absolutely adores this dish), and spicy Doritos marinated in Sriracha (I know, I know, but he deserves a snack, and I don’t put that many chips in the baggy.)
“I ended the call by saying that I very much appreciated her worries, but that at the end of the day, I am not going to drastically change my sons’ lunches all of a sudden, and that it’s not my fault if other students are ‘distracted’ by his meal. It is very important to me what my son enjoys, and I want him to like my lunches.”
But the teacher refuses to let the issue go, and has followed up with an official email.
“(The email) says that my response was ‘unacceptable’ and that his lunches are, ‘just too inappropriate to be sent to school any longer’. I haven’t responded yet and don’t want to. I want to maintain a healthy relationship with my son’s teachers. I am confused as to what to do. Am I the a**hole?”
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