Someone is stealing DD's lunch
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Anonymous
| My DD just started first grade and has came home for the past few days saying that some snacks in her lunch bag weren't packed, for example fruit snacks and cookies. I'm 100% positive that I've packed them and I even have DH double check her bag before he leaves in the morning. Yesterday afternoon she came home again saying that her snacks were missing and all she had was her PB&J and crackers! I'm horrid! I talked to the principal this morning and she says, oh this has happened before, but I'll talk to her teacher. Has anyone else been in this situation before? What did you do? |
Anonymous
| How do you pack them? I'm wondering how another child could be stealing food from her lunch bag without your DD knowing about it. Are the treats somehow kept separate from the rest of the lunch? |
Anonymous
| Where are they keeping their lunches? In a book bag by their side or in some kind of communal closet or fridge? If it's like a coat closet where all bags and lunches go in the morning -- can't you tell her to leave lunch in her bag rather than placing it on some shelf or somewhere out in the open? |
Anonymous
| The snacks are all in the same bag. Her backpack and lunch box are placed in the back corner of the classroom during the day along with the belongings of the other students. In Kindergarten, everyone had cubbies in the front of the room, so items were always in view of the teacher and her assistant. |
Anonymous
| What you describe doesn't indicate that the lunch is being stolen. She's probably tossing items out, or when lunch break is up and there's a bunch of opened, uneaten food that won't last several more hours outside of the fridge, the staff toss it. Wait to hear what the teacher says. |
Anonymous
Find the mom with the militant food obession and that will lead you to the thief 
I am not surprised that the principal was not surprised. One of my kids has allergies and Oreos were one of the few sweet treats that were safe. Kids whose moms never bought those kinds of treats were always begging to trade for them or for him to give the Oreos to them. Several times a year kids wouldnjust take them, sometimes directly from him and sometimes stealing them from his lunchbox. |
Anonymous
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Are the snacks for a separate 'snack time' or are they to be eaten at lunch as part of her overall lunch?
If it's the former, then you should find a way to send them separately, as I imagine it's chaos for a bunch of 1st graders. If it's the latter, I seriously doubt any 1st grader has the wherewithal to sneak to the back of the classroom, pilfer through lunch boxes for the choice goodies, zip the bag back up, and eat the snack without anyone noticing. In both my kids MCPS schools, lunches are all kept together and transported together to the cafeteria. It would be tough for someone to mess with them without being noticed. Your daughter is probably just overwhelmed by the beginning of school and forgetting to eat parts of her lunch and chucking them accidentally. |
Anonymous
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I don't think you're horrid, OP. You sound pretty normal to me
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Anonymous
Are you horrid? |
Anonymous
fruit snacks, cookies, PB&J, and crackers? This sounds like a terribly sugar filled unhealthy lunch. I am surprised the school hasn't confiscated your DD's lunch and sent a letter to you. http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/family-meals/slideshow/25-quick-and-easy-school-lunches-to-pack-for-your-kids/?slide=1 |
Anonymous
| Maybe she ate them and wants more |
Anonymous
FFS, don't you have anything better to do than to police other peoples' eating habits? Clearly not. |
Anonymous
| *If* someone in the class is stealing her snacks, I feel awful for that child, who is probably hungry and not getting enough to eat at home. If that turns out to be the case, I would let the school handle the disciplinary part of it (which I hope would just be talking to the 6 year old about reaching out for help when needed and not taking from others) and I would see if there was a way to donate snacks to the school for kids who don't have enough (when free/reduced lunch doesn't cover snack time). |
Anonymous
So here is her lunch, what do you think? Fruit Snacks: SUGAR, Artificial colors, no nutritional value, tons of carbs 
Oreos: SUGAR + FAT + Artifical falvors + bad fats, tons of carbs 
PB&J High in fats, sugar, filling low nutritional values http://www.caloriesecrets.net/is-peanut-butter-and-jelly-good-for-you/ Crackers Carbs, no nutritional value, too much salt, tons of carbs 
Overall too much sugar, WAY too much salt, too many carbs, not vegetables and no healthy proteins. Where are the veggies? Where is the good lean proteins? This is a terrible lunch and well contribute to an unhealthy craving for sugar, carbs and end up obese. |
Anonymous
| The teacher is taking the crap and empty calories out of your daughters lunch. The principal has experienced this before with this teacher. |