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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] OP here. Just making it clear, I do think that it was a weird game and that my kid and her friends should be punished for not keeping their hands to themselves. I just don't understand why they are punishing the whole grade. Seems unfair to the other kids. My guess was the grade as a whole was already being loud, the lunch monitor was on edge, and jumped to conclusions. But I don't believe my kid stole food. [/quote]

OP, the punishment seems inappropriate to me. If someone stole a child's food, there would be a child complaining about it, right? Is your daughter's friend complaining that her food was stolen?

If the lunch aide's concern is the kids are bullying another kids or something like that by keeping her lunch box away from her - then punishment makes a more sense. But is that the complaint?

I don't think you would be wrong at all to ask for more details. Honestly the lunch aide sounds nuts to me, but go ahead and very politely ask to get to the bottom of the lunch stealing incident, because punishment extended to the entire grade. To me, that points to the lunch aid or teachers or the principal thinking whatever happened was a very big deal. So call them on it.

I do not think this is making a big issue out of a small or unimportant one. If the punishment extended to the whole class, the school is making the issue a big one.
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