I told you to look it up if you're interested because A) I'm not your teacher and B) I know you aren't interested.

:shrug: Not particularly healthy eating habits but good for you, I guess. I eat a wide and varied diet, I eat until I'm full and then stop eating. Because we're not rationing and the "clear your plate" mantra encourages eating beyond the point of feeling full, which is not healthy.

I think we can agree on it being rude to make a show of throwing away the food or declaring it "horrible" - in fact I've had lots of discussions with my daughter about not vocally criticising food that someone has made for her - but that doesn't mean having to eat it. It can be quietly put aside or binned. What's not clear from this story is if the girl loudly declared it tasteless rather than binning it quietly (yes, rude) and binned it and was then confronted - or if the dinner lady simply saw her bin it, confronted her, and then she said the reason.

If it's the first then the dinner lady should have a word with the kid's teacher about her attitude and the teacher can take it from there. If the latter then it's not rude at all, and the dinner lady doesn't need to do ANYTHING, except maybe keep an eye on her and see if she's throwing away her lunch every day, in which case again she should then have a word with the kid's class teacher as it could be a sign of a problem.

NEITHER is a good enough reason to publicly shame her and try to force her to eat food out of a bin. Really horrific attitude.

Yes, I did that to my kid...my kid btw, and my wifes. Not some toletarian cook.

Please report me, you will be told by the operator how much of a moron you are,

I do agree with most of your points TS, I only said she was rude and cheeky for the way she spoke about it, presumably in earshot of the person who made it, obviously what that person did in response was totally inappropriate

To help with your reading comprehension, I did mean negative things happening nowadays like a dinner lady making a child eat a sandwich which was covered up from a bin that just contained discarded paper bags - not physical assault, like in the PAST. Being made to eat a cheese sandwich once is not something that I would class as traumatic enough to have your child change schools and have them being in the news. Totally OTT.

A word with the head teacher who could have chastised the dinner lady would have been appropriate, and then quietly reassuring your child that it wouldn’t happen again.
What happens the next time the child has a bad experience? If a parent teaches a child that is the way to react to unfair things, like REAL LIFE, really; what happens when the kid starts work and gets a bollocking by an unreasonable/nasty boss? A nervous breakdown? The News at 10?