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MTVN · 10-05-2012, 12:09 PM

They're probably quite big meals really, but she goes and eats half of it first and then takes a picture

Vicky. · 10-05-2012, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by kizzy

Yes that is one soloution but its not really the issue niamh, It's hoodwinking parents who pay for meals by giving the child insufficient inferior food.

Indeed. Then this child tries to show people this and gets blasted for being greedy/selfish...

We had an issue slightly like this a year or so ago with gavins oldest son. he was coming in from school starving...while we were paying for dinners for him. He wouldnt talk to us about it so we asked the teachers, who told us that he was eating plenty at dinnertime and he must just be hungry because he played football a lot and was burning it off...which seemed a reasonable answer. The next term his sister started at the school. Thats when we found out what was going on...he wasnt eating ANYTHING at lunchtime. He was drinking his juice (and having his milk and biscuits through the day) but that was it.

Had we known this we would have put him on packed lunches...which he is on now. However the teachers blatantly lied to our faces about what was going on. Surely they must have noticed a child throwing their entire dinner away everyday. I cant say if it was the schools fault or not, gavs daughter LOVES the dinners there so it cant really be the quality of the food or anything, but they should have told us either way that he was not eating instead of leading us to believe he was and havin us continue to pay for meals that were getting wasted and having a hungry child.

Vicky. · 10-05-2012, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Niamh.

I don't agree, they don't like the food that's been offered, give her a packed lunch.........Simples. It takes 5 minutes to make a nice healthy sandwich and pack some fruit in a lunch box. I think parents are just being lazy tbh.

Meh, I see your point but if you are paying 2 quid a day for hot meals you expect your child to get something half decent at least. not a burger that looks like its been dropped into a pile of sawdust, a couple of tiny croquettes and a token slice of cucumber

Vicky. · 10-05-2012, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by MTVN

They're probably quite big meals really, but she goes and eats half of it first and then takes a picture

arista · 10-05-2012, 12:20 PM

Vicky thats a shame that yours/Gavs child
had problems. Thats not nice

But this is about a 9 year olds Blog
thats making trouble
in hard times

Ch5's Matt Wright
said this morning
its enough for a 9 year old

Vicky. · 10-05-2012, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by arista

Vicky thats a shame that yours/Gavs child
had problems. Thats not nice

But this is about a 9 year olds Blog
thats making trouble
in hard times

How is it just making trouble though? All shes doing is posting photos of her meals. Noone would say anything if there wasnt some kind of problem with the meals would they :S

If she was posting a decent meal everyday...no-one would bat an eyelid.

Niamh. · 10-05-2012, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Vicky.

Indeed. Then this child tries to show people this and gets blasted for being greedy/selfish...

We had an issue slightly like this a year or so ago with gavins oldest son. he was coming in from school starving...while we were paying for dinners for him. He wouldnt talk to us about it so we asked the teachers, who told us that he was eating plenty at dinnertime and he must just be hungry because he played football a lot and was burning it off...which seemed a reasonable answer. The next term his sister started at the school. Thats when we found out what was going on...he wasnt eating ANYTHING at lunchtime. He was drinking his juice (and having his milk and biscuits through the day) but that was it.

Had we known this we would have put him on packed lunches...which he is on now. However the teachers blatantly lied to our faces about what was going on. Surely they must have noticed a child throwing their entire dinner away everyday. I cant say if it was the schools fault or not, gavs daughter LOVES the dinners there so it cant really be the quality of the food or anything, but they should have told us either way that he was not eating instead of leading us to believe he was and havin us continue to pay for meals that were getting wasted and having a hungry child.

Sorry Vicky but I strongly disagree with that. It is not and it should not be the teachers or the cafeteria staffs responsibility to check whether kids are eating all their lunch or not. Kids will be kids, I had war with my daughter for two years for not eating her lunch and throwing it away after school. That happens with kids whether it's a packed lunch or not and teachers have enough to be doing then to check who's eating what, in fairness.

Niamh. · 10-05-2012, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Vicky.

Meh, I see your point but if you are paying 2 quid a day for hot meals you expect your child to get something half decent at least. not a burger that looks like its been dropped into a pile of sawdust, a couple of tiny croquettes and a token slice of cucumber

lol, you wouldn't get a bag of crisps and a drink here for 2 quid not to mind a hot meal!

arista · 10-05-2012, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Vicky.

How is it just making trouble though? All shes doing is posting photos of her meals. Noone would say anything if there wasnt some kind of problem with the meals would they :S

If she was posting a decent meal everyday...no-one would bat an eyelid.

She is now going Worldwide thanks to the D.Mail.

Some of us see it as a decent meal for a 9 year old

Vicky. · 10-05-2012, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Niamh.

Sorry Vicky but I strongly disagree with that. It is not and it should not be the teachers or the cafeteria staffs responsibility to check whether kids are eating all their lunch or not. Kids will be kids, I had war with my daughter for two years for not eating her lunch and throwing it away after school. That happens with kids whether it's a packed lunch or not and teachers have enough to be doing then to check who's eating what, in fairness.

Fully agree. However over the space of a month or so Im sure someone would have noticed that he was eating NOTHING at all

And if they didnt know, which would be fair enough I guess, why lie about it and assure us he was eating all his meals and blame his hunger on his sports etc etc...

Vicky. · 10-05-2012, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by arista

She is now going Worldwide thanks to the D.Mail.

Some of us see it as a decent meal for a 9 year old

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Martha, whose mother Rebecca is a GP, began the blog because she is interested in writing.

With permission from teachers, she photographed her £2 lunches and wrote about them.

Seems the teachers never saw her as a troublemaker either

Niamh. · 10-05-2012, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Vicky.

Fully agree. However over the space of a month or so Im sure someone would have noticed.

And if they didnt know, which would be fair enough, why lie about it and assure us he was eating all his meals etc etc...

I don't know, maybe they actually did think he was eating them and didn't see him binning them?

Vicky. · 10-05-2012, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Niamh.

I don't know, maybe they actually did think he was eating them and didn't see him binning them?

If they didnt know, they shouldnt lie. Simple as.

Vicky. · 10-05-2012, 12:32 PM

(Now feels the need to point out that the school is under a different headteacher now and has vastly improved in all areas. They do seem to know what the kids get up to now)

Not just slagging them off, will give credit where its due