[Vicky.]

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.