Students in a Durham School District are being told they cannot eat parts of their home-packed lunches because they are “unhealthy.”
According to The Star, the Durham School District’s new healthy eating initiative has parents infuriated after teachers and officials have refused to let students eat specific parts of the lunches packed by their parents.
Elaina Daoust, a mother of two district students, says she became “infuriated” last year when her son was told he could not eat his morning snack, a small piece of banana bread, because it contained chocolate chips. He was told that he would instead have to eat the grapes from his lunch.
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“He came home with a chart (listing healthy snack ideas) and told me he and the teacher talked about it and healthy choices. She also sent a note to me. I was really, really, really mad for several reasons,” Daoust told The Star.
The mother explained that her son is very picky eater and that she chose the packaged banana bread because teachers discourage home-baked treats due to allergy concerns. The snack was labeled as being nut-free.
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Douse says her son’s new school, where he started this year, has given her no issues so far.
Healthy eating and nutrition has become a major part of Ontario’s health and physical education curriculum in recent years.
Officials with the Durham Catholic District School Board say that there is a difference between teaching children to eat healthy and critiquing what a child brings to school.
“There is nowhere in our policy that says our staff is allowed to take food away from a student,” James MacKinnon, a teaching consultant with the DCDSB said.
McKinnon added that while teaching students about making healthy decisions is important, teachers should not single any students out.
“It’s up to the students to share that information with their parents, we’re educating and promoting but not dealing with it at snack time,” he said.
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More than 30 district parents have shared stories about their children having food taken away. Foods taken away or discouraged in classrooms and in lunch include Goldfish, granola bars, string cheese, Jello, juice boxes, pudding, fruit snacks, raisins, Animal Crackers, chocolate milk, and Sun Chips.
Janae Brangman says that her daughter, a second grade student, had her lunch sent home several times last year because it contained pizza on a non-designated pizza day at the school. She says her daughter was once offered an orange in place of the lunch her mother packed. In other instances, her daughter did not eat because teachers had sent her food home after deeming it unacceptable.
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“I felt it was way more unhealthy for a child not to eat at all, than to eat a granola bar with chocolate,” Brangman said.
Sources: The Star, ScaryMommy / Photo credit: Keith Beatty/The Star
This was in Canada so I can’t speak for their laws But here in America USA she would not be allowed to do this or if she did the parents could sue
Raisins? String Cheese? Granola Bars? I realize this is Canada. I also realize we don’t want this here! H3!!, many teachers can’t even teach and now they act the role of a dietitian?
When will you self anointed intellectuals called teachers come to your senses. Just stick to being half ass instructors and leave the kids meals to mom and dad. YOu may suggest an alternative but you have no right taking their lunch away and decalring it unfit. jwstx
This is what the Nanny State looks like. Walk away.
I Agree!!
ANOTHER STRIKE AGAINST TEACHERS… TEACHERS U R HIRED TO TEACH THE TRADITIONAL CURRICULUM & TO TEACH KIDS TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES TO RESEARCH EVERYTHING THAT THEY R IGNORANT ABOUT TO GET 3 OR 4 OPINIONS USE REASON CONSEQUENCES ETC NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED INVESTIGATE IT TEACHERS R NOT THERE TO INDOCTRINATE MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY THEY R NOT THE PARENTS TO OVER-RIDE THE CHOICES OF THE PARENTS THEY R THERE TO DISCIPLINE & DEMAND RESPONSIBILITY CIVILITY TAKE AWAY TENURE THAT IF THEY DESERVE THEY DO NOT NED & IF THEY DO NOT DESERVE THEY AGAIN DO NOT NEED IT BUT TO BE FIRED
THIS IS UN REAL TO THINK A TEACHER HAHT O THROW OUT FOOD PROVIDED BY THE PARENT AS THE SCHOOL DID NOT PAY FOR IT! IF THAT EVER HAPPENED TO MY KID IT WOULD MEAN A TRIP TO THE MAN IN THE LONG BLACK ROBE AND IT WOULD COST THE SCHOOL AND TEACHER BIG BUCKS! ENOUGH OF THE SCHOOLS PARENTING OVER THE PARENTS!
AS long as these self-righteous, “we know best, because we’re smarter than you” cretins are allowed to get away with these invasions of our family and personal business, they will continue. All voters, not just those with kids in school should make it a point to know what’s going on in the classrooms that we are being heavily taxed to support. Then make sure to know the pedigrees on the school board candidates,and vote for those who meet your standards. They are the ones who are responsible for spending tens of millions of our tax dollars. Judging from the performance and achievement reports by grade level in many districts, we haven’t been getting a good “return on our “investment.
I’d tell that teacher she was totally unqualified to throw out my child’s snack or lunch! those parents should get together and have a very good discussion about who’s the parent! some times I just don’t understand people from Canada! they have some very unusual ideas!
I’ve heard of similar things happening in some American schools, too.
Either place, it is completely unreasonable and frankly, stupid and wasteful.
If I had kids, and I found out about this, I’d be bringing in my grocery receipts and demanding reimbursement, and raising holy hell about it in the process. I’d embarrass them into submission.
This is an example of “Government Owns The People” especially children.
Socialism, Communism, any totalitarian regime. Note: Islam is a worst case.
Schools dictating what children can or cannot eat (according to the uneducated opinion of teachers not dietitians) but I’m wondering if these same schools are also “educating” these same children on the benefits of being/becoming LGBTTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual)???
Pretty tragic.
Snowflake ignorant educators—you may be a teacher—-probably a bad one—-definitely a lack of common sense moron. You’re fired!
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