Schoolboy, 6, suspended from school after having Mini Cheddars in his lunchbox.

[zakman440]

The parents of a six-year-old boy have slammed his school after the child was suspended for having a packet of Mini Chedders in his lunchbox.

Senior staff at Colnbrook C of E primary school concluded that Riley Pearson should be kept away from lessons for four days for continuously contravening its healthy eating policy.

The school, which is located near Slough, had implemented a healthy eating policy from the beginning of the term, asking parents to provide a balanced meal. Chocolates, sweets, crisps and fizzy drinks were all banned.

However, after meeting with headteacher Jeremy Meek, Riley’s parents Natalie Mardle and Tom Pearson were told that they lacked support for the policy and had ‘continuously’ broken school rules.

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:laugh2: This is actually quite funny.

[arista]

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Rules Are Rules

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[In the Drunk Tank]

Jamie Oliver has ruined this country

[Jake.]

http://i.imgur.com/Towooybl.jpg

[arista]

Jamie Oliver has ruined this country


Its complex


[Riley Pearson was banned for four days
after breaking school lunch policy
His parents, Natalie Mardle and Tom Pearson,
called in to see school head
Colnbrook C of E Primary School
introduced healthy eating rule this term
Parents were told 'chocolate, sweets, crisps
and fizzy drinks' were banned
Mother says: 'They don't have right to
tells us what we can feed our son']

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549618/Boy-six-suspended-school-four-days-packet-Mini-Cheddars-lunchbox.html#ixzz2s5sJEGSH

[Jesus.]

Maybe he was a little s**t as well.

[Holly Christmas]

Maybe he was a little s**t as well.

He does look rather cocky so maybe. Lol.

Having read what's in his lunch usually, it's not too bad. Yoghurt. No chocolate bars or biscuits. :shrug:

Think the school are being ridiculous.

[arista]

Maybe he was a little s**t as well.


No he is to young


Its his Mum that is the s**t

[HD]

No he is to young


Its his Mum that is the s**t

Why just the mum?

[arista]

Why just the mum?


Mums do the Lunch Box

[HD]

Mums do the Lunch Box

:facepalm:

[Holly Christmas]

Mums do the Lunch Box

Oh Arista!

[arista]

Oh Arista!


Yes

[HD]

Oh Arista!

It's amazing how much he gets away with on here. :laugh:

[arista]

It's amazing how much he gets away with on here. :laugh:


I get away with nothing

[GiRTh]

Arista is the guvnor :joker:

[HD]

:umm2:

[Kazanne]

They should have took him on holiday in that 4 days,lol,the school really could not have done anything about it,seriously though,bloody ridiculous .

[Withano]

Jamie Oliver has ruined this country

Hes the reason why I went hungry in schools for 3 years... They sold low fat cookies on my last year, it was jacket potato or gross looking mush until then... hes such a dick

[Vicky.]

Will never understand why they think suspension is punishment..most kids would love the extra days off

[Scarlett.]

What a bastard, lock him up and throw away the key, its a shame they got rid of the death penalty!

[Ammi]

..this wouldn't have happened if they were Wotsits ..

[sassysocks]

Mums do the Lunch Box

You really don't live in the real world do you? Thankfully most of us have moved on from such narrow-minded stereotypes.

[Roy Mars III]

all criminals start somewhere

[The Human Santapede]

Mums do the Lunch Box

Damn right! Women should know their place, and even then they do it wrong.

[Holly Christmas]

Damn right! Women should know their place, and even then they do it wrong.

:fist:

[Roy Mars III]

Will never understand why they think suspension is punishment..most kids would love the extra days off

got more to do with the parent I think. A lot of parents have to change their day if their kid doesn't have school, and they hope parents will make sure their kid behaves so it does not happen again

[Z]

Sounds like the boy's parents think this is a total joke, no wonder, because it is. I'll bet he's having a great time off school, my dad would totally have done the same thing if that was one of us being suspended for having crisps in our packed lunch - I mean how ridiculous.

[Vicky.]

If he was going in with a box packed with, say, a can of coke, 2 chocolate muffins and 3 packs of crisps I could understand a bit more. But the rest of his lunch sounds fine and to me this is just the school throwing their weight around for no reason.

[Z]

I think schools are under a lot of pressure to adhere to all these different guidelines and perhaps get a little bit too into these things. That said, no doubt this has been taken out of context by the parents, the school obviously isn't going to go to the media to say "we've suspended one of our students for this reason, what do you think about that" - I'm sure there's more to the story than this and they'll likely back down and apologise and not take it any further even if they had more concrete reasons than "he had crisps" for suspending him.

[T*]

Mums do the Lunch Box
Aristas on the sexist train! Choo choo!

[Cherry Christmas]

In fairness to Arista the percentage of single mothers is much greater than fathers, and it is more likely the mother will pack the lunchbox as men can't get ready for work and pack a lunchbox at the same time. :whistle:

What gets me about stories like this is once they hit Year 7 the worlds their oyster (at least at lunchtime) with regard to what they eat.

[Z]

My dad used to make my packed lunches the night before :idc:

[Cherry Christmas]

My dad used to make my packed lunches the night before :idc:

He is one in a million. :idc:

[Z]

He is one in a million. :idc:

Possibly :laugh: my parents tended to go fifty/fifty on that sorta thing, my mum would do stuff during the day that my dad obviously couldn't do if he was at work and my dad would do stuff in the evening so that my mum wasn't just doing everything for everyone else.

[Cherry Christmas]

Just kidding most couples I know share that kind of stuff, my husband is pretty good tbf.

[Shaun]

what a lil car'ynn wannabe

2LoDS6xL8Uk

[Ammi]

..I'm always a bit dubious about stories like this..it does all seem a bit of an extreme reaction by the school but they could have talked to the parents about it several times before and the parents refused to compromise..?..it's difficult to say but I know that lots of school participate in Health Eating awards..(our does..)..and what the children eat for packed lunch is a big part of the award so can mean that their award is taken away from them if parents won't support it, which is a shame and annoying for all the other families if it's just one or two people who refuse to do it....

[Kizzy]

It would be interesting to see a nutritional breakdown of everything that is available for lunch in the school kitchen. I doubt that all their produce is sugar, salt and fat free.

[Ammi]

..ours is Kizzy..but I have to say, I've tried some and it is a bit tasteless sometimes/with some things..the school cook is often not happy about not being able to use these things...

..I think there's probably always improvements that could be made of course and especially with the free school meals happening in September...

[Jack_]

Jamie Oliver has ruined this country

[2]

What a ridiculous story.

[Livia]

Mums do the Lunch Box

Of all my friends I know with kids, it's the Mum that does the lunch boxes because mostly it's the mums who are at home, or working part-time. Even my sister-in-law, who has a really stressful full-time job in the City, still does my nieces' lunch boxes.

[Moviefan]

Poor kid,

I still remember school dinners for 2 years, I had same thing every day!, I didn't need ask dinner lady, she knew what was going and gave me lol , Pizza and Chips , very lunch time.

I love to wake up and have those pizza again!

[Kizzy]

I think jamie oliver did a lot to highlight the drop in standards of school meals. It was an eye opener for a lot of parents who thought like ammis school food was prepared onsite.
In the majority of schools it isn't and the catering companies used were reducing the quality substantialy to maximise profits.
So I for one am glad this was publicised.
I worry that when meals are free standards will slip again. The issue with packed lunches is one I remember well, I can see how a school would ban crisps and chocolate but where do you draw the line, all packaged/ processed foods?
The punishment of the child was excessive, why exclude the child? It would make them feel at fault, totally unfair and heavy handed.

[Cherry Christmas]

If both parents work full time there is usually a fairly even division of the childcare it is the only way it can work, if one parent always does the lunchboxes it usually means the other parent does the school run or the pick up or the ballet, there usually is a trade off.

[InOne]

I remember when I started upper school the first 2 years was cans of pop, massive slices of pizza and all sorts like that. Then it all just suddenly went, cans were banned and we got cheap soft drinks. It was quite a sudden change, there was no messing about. I never remember the 'healthy' food being much better to be honest, it all comes down to the schools budget.

[Kizzy]

I worked as a lunchtime assistant in a school in a run down area of Leeds in 2011 an was really shocked at the food primary kids get, and the portions not enough for an ant!
There were never any 'seconds' :(

[Z]

I think it's good to promote healthy eating but schools get a bit anal about the whole thing IMO.

[Kizzy]

I think it due to teachers having to deal with kids either lethargic due to having no food or whacked off their gourd on sugar and caffeine. I would say the problem in inner city schools is pretty bad to take the decision to control what children consume whilst in their care.

[andybigbro]

This is rediculous.

I loved all the unhealthy school meals.

[arista]

This is rediculous.

I loved all the unhealthy school meals.


Times have changed


More Fat Kids

[Gstar]

what a sh*t school, I would of went MAD if I was the parent

[Tom4784]

By the sounds of it the school won't be around much longer, it all sounds like a desperate attempt to get some brownie points from somewhere to cover up their apparently woeful teaching.

[arista]

Boy, six, suspended from school
after taking a packet of Mini Cheddars
in his lunchbox has now been Expelled
after parents vented their outrage in the press

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2552081/Boy-six-suspended-school-taking-packet-Mini-Cheddars-lunchbox-EXPELLED-parents-vented-outrage-press.html#ixzz2sRuaGEpA


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He is not fat

[ChristmasNeeve]

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:laugh2:

[lostalex]

to be fair, that kid looks like trouble. must be bad parenting.

[Alf]

Lucky little bugger, four days on the playstation for this little chap.

[lostalex]

Lucky little bugger, four days on the playstation for this little chap.

any we wonder why so many end up on the dole? we train them from the beginning. Do wrong? you get to stay home and play xbox.

[ChristmasNeeve]

to be fair, that kid looks like trouble. must be bad parenting.

I don't think that's too far off the mark, I assume that 6 year old isn't making his own lunches so it's completely the parents fault

[Tom4784]

Those kids probably had a lucky break, this school sounds terrible.

[Livia]

There's got to be more to this than a packet of bloody Mini Cheddars.

[arista]

There's got to be more to this than a packet of bloody Mini Cheddars.


[School says pupil was excluded for 'continuously breaking school rules']

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2552081/Boy-six-suspended-school-taking-packet-Mini-Cheddars-lunchbox-EXPELLED-parents-vented-outrage-press.html#ixzz2sSJ0yGTg

[Livia]

"The school has insisted a pupil was not excluded 'for just having Mini Cheddars in their lunchbox' but because there had been a 'persistent and deliberate breach of school policy, such as bringing in crisps, biscuits, sausage rolls, mini sausages, scotch eggs and similar'.

Riley’s dad, Tom Pearson, said he was 'devastated' that the school had not only deprived Riley of his schooling but also his younger brother who attends its pre-school.


Maybe the parents can't read. Maybe they can't the understand the simple rules the school laid down. For the father to say he's "devested" and to accuse the school of depriving his child of education, demonstrates how some people try to slide through the world thinking no rules apply to them, and when they're pulled up, they run crying to the media. Maybe it's the parents who are in want of an education.

[lostalex]

are mini-cheddars like cheez-its?

http://img.sparknotes.com/content/sparklife/sparktalk/cheeseits_Large.jpg

[ChristmasNeeve]

are mini-cheddars like cheez-its?

http://img.sparknotes.com/content/sparklife/sparktalk/cheeseits_Large.jpg

I would say so, they're very cheesy little cracker thingys

[Jake.]

I hope that the law-breaking little **** is locked up for a very long time to come

[Livia]

I hope that the law-breaking little **** is locked up for a very long time to come

Yeh... shouldn't he be up a chimney with a brush or something? Bloody kids...

[lostalex]

I think they taste like Goldfish. Cheez-it's taste almost exactly like Goldfish.

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[Jack_]

Maybe the school ought to focus on teaching the ****ing kids the curriculum and not dictating what they can and cannot eat

[lostalex]

Maybe the school ought to focus on teaching the ****ing kids the curriculum and not dictating what they can and cannot eat

They could get on with it, it seems like it's more the press that wants to push the issue.

[Coldwinter]

If I were the school board, I would have the kids splurge (or bring in junk food) once or twice a week. The people at that school are being way too strict.

[Z]

Maybe the school ought to focus on teaching the ****ing kids the curriculum and not dictating what they can and cannot eat

Yeah when I read that there was more to him "just" bringing in Mini Cheddars I was expecting to read that he'd been like writing on the walls and punching other kids, not... having food that the school dictated he wasn't allowed to have. What a ridiculous overreaction.