Should the teacher have the authority to determine what foods are considered to be nutritious for your child’s lunch box? A mother in Colorado is furious because she claims her daughter’s preschool “lunch-shamed” her for including some cookies in her daughter’s lunch.
Leeza Pearson adores her daughter, who is four, more than anything else. However, Leeza’s daughter, Natalie, was a student at Children’s Academy in Aurora, Colorado would return home from school every day, still hungry. Although Leeza always prepared lunch for her little girl, she kept loading the little girl’s lunch bag with food and extra snacks like Oreo cookies, but still, the girl would return home hungry day after day. Leeza did not understand why there didn’t seem to be enough food for the child. The mother began to get very worried.
After considerable research, Leeza Pearson’s daughter discovered that her instructor had been tampering with her lunch since she had been returning from school hungry. Oreo cookies were being confiscated by the teacher since they weren’t seen as a healthy snack. Leeza wants the Children’s Academy to apologize to her and her daughter for the impolite manner in which the school instructor handled her daughter’s lunch.
Natalie eventually returned home carrying a letter from her teacher. The Oreo cookies were apparently removed from the young girl’s lunch because the teacher did not deem them to be suitable for the student to consume while at school.
“Dear Parents, it is very important that all students have a nutritious lunch. This is a public school setting, and all children are required to have a fruit, a vegetable, and a heavy snack from home, along with a milk. If they have potatoes, the child will also need bread to go along with it. Lunchables, chips, fruit snacks, and peanut butter are not considered to be a healthy snack. This is a very important part of our program, and we need everyone’s participation,” the note read, according to Life Aspire.
Leeza found it incomprehensible that the instructor was trying to control the snack she gave her child. She doesn’t need her child’s teacher to bring more stress to her already hectic life because she is doing the best she can as a parent.
“They don’t provide lunch for my daughter. I provide lunch. It’s between the doctor and me in terms of what’s healthy for her,” Leeza said.
Even a few suggestions for healthy snacks her daughter may bring to school would have been acceptable to Leeza, claiming that she would not object if the teacher discussed her daughter’s meal with her. She demands an apology from the Children’s Academy since she and her daughter were severely offended by the teacher’s impolite handling of their daughter’s lunch.
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