Can the school determine what the pupils pack for dinner?
Parents discussed this on Twitter after a mother shared her experience with a shortbread biscuit.
Berlin - is school getting more and more strict?
This is probably what many asked themselves when they saw a tweet from a school child mother.
But it's not about content or grades - it's about the food.
After a mother prepared the lunch for her child, the school advised her to leave out certain ingredients.
The mother shared this on Twitter - and the post went viral.
"Before everything was better", some will think when they see this tweet.
And maybe they are right.
Because what parents say about the children's sandwiches really makes you shake your head.
A user from Berlin describes her experience on Twitter after she packed a shortbread biscuit in the lunch box for her child - the school didn't like that at all.
Strange request: school asks mother not to pack biscuits
In my children's lunch box today there was sliced peppers, apples, peaches, wholemeal bread with cheese and a shortbread biscuit.
Was asked not to bring biscuits to school.
Yes my God, I'll just put a piece of chocolate in there tomorrow.
- Swamp Cow (@ Swamp Cow) September 1, 2021
“In my children's lunch box today there was sliced peppers, apples, peaches, wholemeal bread with cheese and a shortbread biscuit.
Was asked not to give any cookies to school, ”writes the mother.
But she takes it with humor: "Yes my God, I'll just put a piece of chocolate in there tomorrow."
The tweet goes viral, because it seems the Berliners are not the only ones with such problems.
“Here the moderately severe catastrophe was one, I emphasize ONE, chocolate lentil in a nut mix.
This one chocolate lentil was not allowed to be consumed and had to make the way home alone in the lunch box, ”writes one user.
Your child now sometimes gets half a milk bar wrapped - but secretly.
School demands go viral - online reactions: "Absurdity in schools"
Other parents and users on Twitter react angrily. One wonders whether schools or daycare centers even have the right to inspect the children's lunch. “What the students eat during recess should remain a private matter,” says one commentator. Many find this behavior outrageous. “Right now, this shows the absurdity of the situation in schools in particular. Coronavirus infection - no problem, but a biscuit during the break - oh god how dangerous. The school should kindly stay out of it, ”says a Twitter user.
Many parents also notice that especially wheat products are frowned upon by teaching staff: “It was probably a shortbread biscuit made with wheat instead of spelled flour.
Then the warning is of course absolutely justified.
Wheat makes you fat and stupid and something else.
Everyone knows.
Next time just add a note with "This is a spelled biscuit !!!", writes one user ironically.
Kindergarten teachers defend schools: Sweets are banned in schools and daycare centers for good reason
Between the amused and angry parents there are also some teachers who try to explain the situation.
In most kindergartens and schools, sweets would be banned so that no food envy could arise between the children.
“When a child has something sweet, everyone wants it and there is an argument.
Or the children share it, one of the children is allergic and an emergency.
That's why the children were never allowed to bring sweets with us, ”explains one user.
Others, on the other hand, tell of bad eating habits of the children.
“What we've already seen.
Whole bars of chocolate, chips.
And parents who think it's a good breakfast.
The teeth of the barely 4-year-old children are rotten / black, ”comments one teacher.
However, everyone agrees: in the past, when there was still strawberry milk in the cafeteria and after school you “bought a handful of sweets from the bakery for 20 pfennigs”, as one user says, that would certainly not have happened.