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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a question where the circumstances matter.

[b]If my child is eating in class, and it is not time to be eating, then I [i]expect[/i] and[i] support[/i] the teacher in requiring my child to turn over the food to be thrown away or for the teacher to require that my child get up and throw away the food.[/b]  If my child leaves food in a desk or in a cubbie and it is perishable food then, again, yes, the teacher should throw it away.

Give some background, OP, otherwise I think you're just trying to stir up trouble and pick a fight with your kid's teacher.[/quote]

I disagree with the bolded. If the student is eating at an inappropriate time, then by all means make the kid go and put it away/back in their bag/in their lunchbox, but why would you insist that it be thrown away?[/quote]

Exactly. It needs to be put away not thrown away.

My child's teacher is a real pain about sweets in the classroom.  I never pack any candy, but one day they were doing a project and he took gold coin chocolate to use (not to eat).  She told him he couldn't use it and threw it in the trash.  I found that utterly tidicilous. Send it home, make him put it away, but she had no right to throw away food I paid for.[/quote]

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