My question would be does the teacher look like she eats healthy? Does she drink at all? Might have to point out to her that her choices are not really setting a good example for her students

No it is not on. A complaint needs to be made against the teacher. Your child equals your business.

Sometimes I wonder what is wrong with the schools these days. They will police what kids eat and at times shame them but they do nothing about bullying. They are just giving the bullies more ammunition by bringing up what the children are eating while at school.

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  • • jacqbeckett replied
    • 03 Apr 2019 , 6:16 pm

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  Oh boy, I think getting on-top of bully learning is more important than the lunch box. My daughter got teased for having a healthy lunch box. So now I throw in 2 marshmallow or bbq shapes to balance it out.

It’s really none of their business!! Unless the lunch box is full of sugar and nothing nutritious!
Give mums a break !

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 03 Mar 2019 , 2:59 pm

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  I agree – parents have a number of issues to manage.

teachers really should stick to teaching – maths english, reading writing – that is there job, not lunch box monitors – that’s our jobs to monitor what we put in and what get’s eaten. For my girls they get an assortment of stuff in their lunch boxes, healthy and treats. If I find that my girls are only eating the treats then they come out of the lunch box until sometime that they can prove to me that they eat all the things provided not just the treats – it’s the parent responsibility not teachers.

My child is underweight and under size for her age(very premi) her school were made very aware of this when she started. Occasionally there is an issue but I’m very quick to intervene. Children have various dietary needs and schools have NO right to police what they are provided. I’ve heard of some schools rating lunch boxes contents on charts for all class mates to veiw. This has to stop!!

Absolutely not! It is not the role of a school or educators to monitor kids lunch and eating habits. It is their role to educate on what is healthy as part of the curriculum, but they cannot judge a child’s lunch. Some families have no money, some children are lucky to have whatever it is in their lunchbox, healthy or not… they should not be shamed or made to feel inadequate or different. This has to stop. Parents do the best they can to provide food for their children. Some kids are fussy eaters and might only eat a certain food. It is a process to change a child’s tastes and eating habits, and one that I’ve no doubt is a work-in-progress with families.

This has gone too far! All schools are doing buy uneducated teachers policing lunchboxes means that children will grow up with an even unhealthier relationship to food! Our local primary school tried to totally change the canteen menu to healthy alternatives – all suggestions were from the teachers and well meaning p&f council members – no professionals involved. My brother took in a letter from the sports nutritionist that my niece was seeing as a state level athlete listing why all of the “bad” things they had listed were actually fine for my niece as she required the extra sugars they were trying to ban. On of the parents on the committee actually said that the school had to remove the “treats” as her son was stealing money from her to buy them as she didn’t allow it! Maybe we are creating different problems buy trying to control everything like this!!!

Society gone mad! Yes we need to crack down on the weight problem but picking on people for having one treat is ridiculous. Moderation guys!

The principal of my youngest said then when he sees kids refusing to eat their lunchbox food, he will feed them !I’m not happy with that either, he has no right to give her whatever he thinks is good for her.

There are so many bigger issues for schools to manage and lunch boxes should be left alone! Children need to be fed and parents do the best they can.

I really don;t feel that anyone should be able to dictate what your child eats.

I have heard of kids being shamed because they have packaging in their lunch boxes

The muffins may have been made with gluten free flour and be suitable for a child with Coelic Disease. Wheat Allergy or Diabetes.
The teacher has no right to complain about what a child has if it is bought from the school canteen.
She should be taking it up with the School Principal, not the parent/s or guardian

Our school discourages certain foods (like lollies), but doesn’t police the kids’ lunch boxes.

No I don’t think schools have the right to dictate what’s going in our lunchboxes !
I was once corrected when I had a raw chocolate spread on the bread of one of our foster kids. The spread had no sugar and no nuts, but probably they thought it was Nutella.

Personally I don’t think that school should interfere with lunchboxes.