[tazcan]

DD just started school this year and I have been horrified by the amount of sugary snacks and drinks at her school canteen:
chocolate milk, fruit poppers, slushies, ice-blocks etc etc

I don't hardly ever let her get a lunch order because of this, but her friends buy her ice blocks and slushies quite often. She has started hunting for coins and hiding them to take to school and I know other kindy kids are doing the same thing.

I don't think school canteens should be selling these kinds of things and I don't think kindy kids should be allowed to buy things for each other from the canteen. I would never buy DD (5.5 years) a slushy when out and about so why should she be getting them at school?

I am writing a letter of complaint to the principal about it as well as maybe a copy to the head of the P&C.

Does anyone else have a problem like this with the school canteen, and do you think the principal will take notice of my complaint? Who else could I write to or approach about the matter?

[bakesgirls]

Unfortunately I have talked to my DD about it to no avail. I guess its because she is only 5 years old and doesn't have that sort of self control yet. I have even caught her dipping into my wallet to find and hide $2, and I know other parents are having a similar problem.

Children taking money from their parents wallets is not the schools problem. What the canteen sells and the temptation to buy it, thus resulting in children taking money, is for the parents to deal with. The canteen food list is not at fault for the child taking money.