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Parent of 8-year-old insists on sending her to school with 'sweet treat' every day, gets daughter suspended

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  • Little girl looks guilty while eating burgers, fries, and soda.
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  • Am I wrong for giving my daughter junk food despite being told not to by her school?

    My daughter's (age 8) school has started a program for healthy eating across the school. I love that and feed my daughter healthy food but I often give her a sweet treat in her lunch.
  • After Christmas break the school talked to the parents explaining they no longer allow the children to eat unhealthy food on school property.
  • This means no bringing in cakes on birthdays and no bringing in junk food if you have packed lunch. I thought that was a bit extreme. Even on Easter my kid won the Easter bonnet competition.
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  • Little girl snacks on junk food.
  • Every other year the kids who won got a chocolate bunny. This year they gave her a sticker. But yeah a few weeks after the rule was my daughter birthday. I decided to give her a
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  • slice of birthday cake in her packed lunch since she couldn't give cake to her classmates. On the day. The teacher saw her eating the cake and told her that she's not allowed to eat junk food in school.
  • And talked to me at pick up. The crazy thing which I pointed out is since the rule has been in place my daughter had school lunches a few times and they had cookies and cakes for dessert. And burgers? And other unhealthy foods. The
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  • teacher said they make sure those are the healthiest possible ones and they can't verify with those I said it's my decision what I feed my child. And they said I'd you send your kid there you have to follow the school rules.
  • After that the teachers kept a close eye on my daughter. She got told off for having Pringles and I got talked to again about that. I gave her RAISENS which is literally fruit and the teacher had a problem with them saying. there's a lot of sugar in
  • Raisens and not to put them in her packed lunch anymore. She also had a lunchable one day and got told off for that too. After this I decided to push it because I thought these rules were too strict. So I went back to
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  • giving her a daily sweet treat. The teachers kept complaining and I said I don't really care the rest of her lunch is healthy she'll be fine. They gave me a warning that they will have to punish her if
  • she keeps bringing in unhealthy food as it's against the school rules and repeatedly being broken. The next day I gave her a lunchable AND a sweet treat. They called me in to the school during lunch and told me because my daughter and
  • I can't follow the school rules she's being suspended for a two days. My husband was really mad at me. He didn't know about me continuously doing it on purpose because he goes
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  • to work early. He said it's really not that serious. Just give her healthy food and saying I was purposely being difficult because I'm immature and now our daughters in trouble because of it.
  • I didn't expect them to suspend her over it. Was I wrong to not follow the rules on this one?

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