[Rathji]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

How are they teaching him to eat unhealthy? Its not like they're sending him to school with big macs and fries everyday or cash to go to 7-11 to but slurpees and chocolate bars like we did in our day. This is a hugely loooong way from neglecting their kid, especially if he's eating a balanced diet including his home meals.

I am not saying they are, but the school has a responsibility to do things like make sure that kids are getting the proper nutrition. You were saying they didn't.

They are not teaching him terrible nutrition, this is not some morbidly obese kid

You don't need to be morbidly obese to be neglected. Most failure to thrive kids that are the result of nutritional neglect, certainly are not obese.

This kid wasn't breaking vending machines or beating up and biting other kids, its a food dispute and the school in my mind is acting in a inappropriate and heavy handed matter. I would also question the ability of the teachers and principle to deal with this situation if they are tossing kids out of school for having what accounts to a bag of chips in a lunch bag.

So he isn't doing physical damage so we shouldn't worry about it? He was kicked out not because he had something in his lunch bag, but because his parents refused to follow the rules and stated they wouldn't ever follow them.

I am not saying I agree that the items in question should be allowed or not, because i have no idea what they are. I have no idea what kind of process was used to determine what the rules were or how they would be enforced, so I can't really comment on that.

I do know that the parents likely would have been informed of the rules before hand and had an opportunity to comment on them, before they went into effect. If they were not given that chance, then the school is at fault. If they were, and the parents chose not to voice their concerns, then it is the parents fault. However, we don't know any of this from the article, so I am not going to jump to conclusions one way or the other.

The rules in this case are wrong, they are way out of context, there are better things that they could be doing then this.

Of course there are better things they could be doing. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be doing this. I am not saying that the rule is right or wrong. I am saying that from the article, it looks like the parents didn't do the right things to combat the rule. I am also saying that the school needs to be able to enforce the rules it has, just as a function of it's role in society.