School took a little girls lunch away from her!

WOW i think i would be sueing or getting an attorney or something on this matter it needs to go viral for sure. Chicken nuggest are processed and not good for us to eat anyways and her Lunch was alot better than what there having kids eat. Of course all kids probably like eating chicken nuggets of course but its not healthy at all to eat. I think her mom is trying to give her something better to eat then what the shcool lunches are now a days. Im sure the shcool has cut back on that as well as other things in the school and its not much better than when i was in school im sure. Now a banana and chips and a sandwich is a perfect lunch combination for anyone to eat and its easy to make and a weel thought out and blanaced diet. OMG i could go on and its making me mad that someone would do this to a young perosn in life. She is going to remember this everyday she goes to eat her lunch now.

Actually, taking away a child's packed lunch and somehow disposing of it is theft. If they objected to the child eating the lunch at school they should have sent it back to the parents.

A lot of schools are doing the healthier eating options and request that parents dont send in any junk food with their kids. I'm guessing the potato chips were what upset the school. Well guess what the rest of the lunch was very healthy and I think if the school did that to my child took their food away and made her eat something different I would sue the school.

I think that it was very wrong of the school to have taken away the child's lunch. The only reason that I can think of around here were items from a child's lunchbox is if the school is a peanut free school. Some schools are deemed to be peanut free schools because of student allergies and in those situations they aren't allowed to serve anything with peanuts in it in the cafeteria and students are also not allowed to bring anything in their lunchboxes either.

My son is in 8th grade and I feel sad for him because the lunch he eats in the school is always the same potato chip, juice milk and chicken nugget wich isnt healtjy at all, what I do is to give him a good breakfast and dinner but I dont like the lunch they give at all.

Now this is very ridiculous. If I were this girl's mother I would have been very upset and would definitely have confronted the school about this incident. What the mother packed is a healthy lunch and much better and nutritious than what the school cafeteria gave to the little girl. I can understand if they had just told the mother not to pack junk food such as chips and candy for the kid but to take the whole lunch awway is just too much. This is getting out of control, I hope the mother spoke to the school about this and stood her ground....

it seems that this is getting a little out of control. this is not the first time i have heard of this but chicken nuggets? i mean really? who knows what those are made of! yuck!

I know they are picky at my kids school about such things. I would think they'd have a cow about the potato chips not being healthy, everything else you listed sounded fine. I have seen my middle childs teacher send a child back to their back pack to pick out something healthier than what they brought in the classroom for snack. Yet my eldest has reported seeing older kids in school with canisters of pringles, with all the materials they send home about nutrition I can't see this being allowed. However, like you mentioned they trade one meal for another. My kids get pizza and I don't think that's very healthy nor is it the worst.

That's ridiculous! Could this be because of the potato chips? I must admit that I do put in some chips with my kids lunches, but I do put in some healthy stuff too, a banana or an apple, etc. The chips are just a treat for them. And it's funny that they replaced it with chicken nuggets!

What?? This is absurd? And which country was this in???? Sounds like some dictatorship wanting to run the private lives of - kids' lunches. And why would this school take a healthy lunch like fresh meat and cheese and fruit and juice and say it's not healthy? Why would this school replace it with non-heathy food? There's so many questions going through my mind right now, and I think this is an utterly stupid action. Here in Canada and USA we try to promote healthy eating in our schools, but I've never, ever heard of this incident happening here in North America.

If you ask me these schools are getting just a little ridiculous when it comes to telling parents just how they can raise or feed their kids. It makes one wonder if parents are left with any rights at all.

I know! I saw this on fox news channel this morning! This really worries me when my kiddos go to school. I would be going to that school and raising holy you know what!!! How dare they take her food away and then send a bill home for the bill of the girls lunch! The mother already packed a lunch for her!!! Which she paid for at the store! Why should she have to pay for it again??? It is NOT the schools job to determine what our children should eat. In my opinion schools are taking over WAY too much. Parents have almost no rights anymore and it is very sad!

I agree with you totally about that seemly like a pretty good lunch...maybe not the chips but I am sure it wasn't a hugh bag of chips...But that is ridiculous.. I tell you what, had that been my child, I would have veen up to the school the next day....and chicken nugges? are you serious? OMG, I am upset that it even happened...to any child,,, there are so many children who's parent dosen't even prepare a lunch...why so everyone try to raise our children,,,,

Hello kay2aT, I know that it is really important to eat healty food. Expecially for young and little children, because there are just in development. The reaction of the school was exaggerated, It is not a way how they should show children and their parents what is good to eat for them. The role of shool is in education procedure, they should show them and learn them importance of healty living manners. Such behaviour can have an opposite effect, and it is not a good example of learning how to eat healtier.

kay2aT hi I am in agreement with you.thats just way out of line as I thought the food in her lunch was more than adequate and what right have they to take a child's lunch away from them? this is outrageous. chicken nuggets are not good food for anyone.I think the school needs to revise its policy. wrong wrong wrong.

This is absolutely ridiculous! It makes absolutely no sense. As far as I'm concerned, this mom packed a perfectly good lunch for her daughter. I don't see the problem with the lunch that this mother packed.

Can I ask where was this happen? If this is US, I see no reasons whatsoever to take the lunch away from her. Like what you and many comments here, the food packed into her lunch are healthy enough for consumption. There has to be other reasons besides claiming that the lunch was unhealthy. Or this school is probably looking for trouble. I read an article online few weeks ago about a 16 or 17 year old girl in UK who had to be admitted to hospital. It was later discovered that this girl had been eating chicken nuggets daily since she was a little girl. Lots of it are from McDonalds. Her mom claimed that she had tried to have her daughter eat other kinds of food with no success. In my opinion, the mom was not trying HARD enough. I forgot what was the sickness of the daughter. Like many people, I like chicken nuggets, but I would not want to eat them every day or so often. Lots of time, they're not really filling. I would rather eat salad, vegetables, and lots of fruits. Of course, there are always great alternatives to having healthy lunch and dinner.

What was the rest of the Chicken Nuggets meal, anyway? A couple of leaves of lettuce, half a tomato, a bit of cucumber (negligible fibre there, compared with a banana, and not much in the way of vitamins, either), and lashings of mayonnaise that contains more oil than a bag of chips and pasta or rice or boiled potato or potato salad (fatty mayonnaise)? With cake for afters?

So let me get this straight..... a parent makes a well planned out lunch for her child and a school personnel takes her lunch away? So what did this child have for lunch then? If I were that little girls' mother, I would have gone straight to the school and spoken to the one who took the lunch away, in front of the teaching staff that were in ear shot including the Principal!! Failing that, I will go to the school board! How dare "they" who ever they is, decide what my child can eat!!

I guess the mother should sue the school for doing that. I think the girl is also upset with this kind of action took by the school. Her mother sure took her time in preparing those things to her girl, they should at least respect that. Why the hell they should even concern what mothers gave to their child as lunch ? They didn't even know what the mother gave the last weekend didn't they ? They should at least gave the lunch for the kid to enjoy and just sent the letter to her mom, but they have to take it do they ?