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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our teacher in a similar school asked everyone to eat the school lunch.[/quote]

Sorry but I'm not compromising my kid's health to make the teacher's life easier.[/quote]

You sound fun!

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I agree PP was being incredibly melodramatic about it, but I agree that it is and should be the parents choice whether to pack something.  A teacher pressuring the kid to eat the school or pressuring a parent not to pack is out of line.[/quote]

Eh, when you enroll in a school, you are fitting your kid into a school culture. Meals are a huge part of a culture. It's not out of line for a PK teacher to want to keep a culture of class family meals. I can see parents embracing this in other contexts. Does't everyone always think the family meals at creches in Paris are so cute and superior?[/quote]

I don't think culture of a school extends anywhere near this far, especially at a public school.  There are any number of reasons a parent wouldn't want his kid eating school meals - allergies, religious restrictions, health issues short of allergies, parental preference for generally healthier foods, parental preference to give kids foods from their background/ethnicity (at least some of the time), etc.

I would hope no teacher would push back on allergies or religious restrictions (although I bet some would be less accepting of a kid keeping kosher or halal), but even the other things are the sort of decisions that parents can make for their young child.  One should not have to compromise on those things in the name of school culture.[/quote]

yes, god forbid your child sit down to a meal with all the other kids! must ... be ...  special!![/quote]

So the kid who is allergic to milk should have to have Mac and cheese in the name of unity?  The Jew or Muslim should have to have pork to appease the teacher's whim?  The immigrants from Korea (or anywhere else) should be told that they can't give food from their background to their kid?  There is nothing "special" about any of this and only someone who is a majority, doesn't have health issues and is generally an ass, would think otherwise.  These kids absolute can and should sit down with their classmates, but that doesn't mean that they should be forced to eat meals their parents don't approve of.[/quote]

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