My school - my rules.

We haven't had a "teacher knows best" story for some time, but here's a good one. You may have heard that from the start of this school year, all primary schools have to provide a hot cooked meal for Key Stage 1 pupils (up to 7 years old). That's got to be good, yes?  Well not necessarily - a school in Yorkshire has decided that this means that Key Stage 1 children are obliged to have the hot meal provided, or go home for their mid-day meal.  They cannot bring a packed lunch.  Furthermore, the same rule applies to the older children - except of course they don't get their meal free, they have to pay for it - £1.75 at present.  So if you have an older child at this school, and are out at work all day or otherwise cannot have them home for lunch, you have no alternative but to shell out £1.75 for whatever the school chooses to give them.  Power seems to go to some people's heads!