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Lord Stoddart of Swindon slates ‘nanny state’ rules that allow teachers to ‘undermine parents’ over lunchboxes
I wrote yesterday about Lord Nash’s reply to a parliamentary question from Lord Stoddart of Swindon regarding teachers being able to rummage through children’s lunch boxes and confiscate food they think is unhealthy.
Lord Stoddart has released a statement saying the following:
“This is the nanny state writ large and I find it incomprehensible that a Conservative Government has given powers to teachers that totally undermine the authority of parents. I would also like to know what qualifications teachers have to determine what is healthy for pupils to eat and what is not? They don’t even seem to be under an obligation to inform parents that items have been confiscated.
“In view of some of the heavily sugared and unhealthy dishes served in some schools, this strikes me as the height of hypocrisy. Unless schools keep detailed health records for all of their pupils, how can teachers be certain that they are not confiscating items that are important for the wellbeing of their pupils? This is a dramatic expansion of the powers of teachers that has not been properly thought through and smacks of the dead hand of political correctness. It demonstrates that the Conservative Party is just as guilty of control freakery as any other party and that they don’t support parents and families, as they so often claim.”
More reasons why this policy is wrong, and more reasons why the Government should reverse this policy.
Source: http://www.tfa.net/lord-stoddart-of-swindon-slates-nanny-state-rules-that-allow-teachers-to-undermine-parents-over-lunchboxes/
