Increasingly, parents in Durham say schools are policing the food in kids’ backpacks — from telling students they aren’t permitted to eat snacks that are deemed unhealthy, to entire lunches being withheld and sent home. As any parent with young kids will attest, packing school lunches and snacks is no easy task. There is a lack of consistency from school to school, and even from classroom to classroom. in Oshawa, had her entire lunch sent home because it contained pizza outside of the school’s designated pizza days. On other occasions, Brangman says Bearpaws cookies and chocolate chip granola bars were withheld and sent home, because they were deemed unhealthy.

Source: thestar September 29, 2016 19:30 UTC