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So while we all try to make our kids eat healthily and even school dinners have had a Jamie Oliver style make over, my little girls school have decided to have a Krispy Kreme Doughnut day (well actually this is apparently the 3rd one they have had in the past 12 months)!!!!
SCHOOL RULES SAY: CHILDREN ARE NOT ALLOWED CAKES, CHOCOLATE OR SWEETS IN THEIR LUNCHBOXES
I have never had a Krispy Kreme doughnut but am told they are delicious and full of calories and fat - WTF........what gives the school the right to undo all of the good work most reposnsible parents are doing to try and make a few quid?
Am I over reacting?
It's not like we don't have the occasional McDonalds etc, but that is a treat.
The way the school are doing it means that the kids feel pressure to ask for money so they are not left out. I personally think it is out of order.
I would like to find out exactly how much the school makes out of this deal, is there a way of doing so under the FOI act?
What exactly are they going to do if the kids have sweets/chocolate in their lunchboxes? Steal it off them?
Find out where the money is going, maybe you can have a chat with the head?
I was thinking of finding out exactly how much they were making and whether it was a significant enough amount to warrant the pushing of these products on the kids.
The school is particularly bad in any case and never takes the kids on trips or anything.
whats a Krispy Kreme Doughnut?
edit....ohhhhhhh its just a brand name?
http://www.krispykreme.com/
SoulKiss
04-03-08, 11:17 AM
If they are being hypocritical over the "no sugary treats" yet letting KK into the school then yes.
KK products are, to me, the best of their kind - but thats because they ARE JUST fat and sugark, with a bit of flour to hold the fat and sugar together,
They also encourage you to buy more at a time, a single will cost over £1, whereas a box of 12 comes down to closer to 50p each.
Am I over reacting then?
no......
Blue_SV650S
04-03-08, 11:23 AM
I am not sure how the day would operate, but assuming a KC van comes round and the kids buy them ... and bearing in mind a single donut is ~?2, the answer is simple ... don't give your kids any money!! ;)
Difficult that as you don't want your kids to feel left out, so it is almost peer pressure by stealth.
I just think it is wrong.........and I'm not too sure what to do about it?
Sounds pretty bad form to me. Not only encouraging them to eat junk but advertising the brand too (which imo is much more harmful).
Have you written to the school to complain?
SoulKiss
04-03-08, 11:31 AM
Difficult that as you don't want your kids to feel left out, so it is almost peer pressure by stealth.
I just think it is wrong.........and I'm not too sure what to do about it?
What to do?
Write (as in pen and paper) a letter and post it using Recorded Delivery.
In that letter, ask why it is that, after the turn around to healthy food, they are inviting large corporations into their school with products that are possibly worse than how things were.
Ask for full details on the "deal" they have (not guaranteed you will get this but worth a try) and request that they reply, in writing, within 14 days, or you will send a copy of this letter to the local authority.
If they phone you, be polite, but insist on a written reply.
Blue_SV650S
04-03-08, 11:36 AM
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Do you know any of the other parents? I suggest a few of you get together and go see the head teach' directly and voice your (rightly so) disgust ... :smt011 .. that has to have more impact than a single leter ...
SoulKiss
04-03-08, 11:37 AM
Do you know any of the other parents? I suggest a few of you get together and go see the head teach' directly and voice your (rightly so) disgust ... :smt011 .. that has to have more impact than a single leter ...
Ahh but the letter is for phase 2, the newspapers :)
wyrdness
04-03-08, 11:37 AM
Sounds pretty bad form to me. Not only encouraging them to eat junk but advertising the brand too (which imo is much more harmful).
Agreed. I'd be really annoyed if I were a parent with kids at this school.
Not yet, the school is really bad for everything I hate it, but am thinking of writing to them.
When my little girl was in her first year at school, she lost 3 of her grandparents within a 12 week period, so being the concerned parents and knowing how much it had affected us, we decided to go and speak to the head teacher, which we did and asked her to mention it to her teacher so that she could keep an eye on her.
Anyway a few months later we went to a parents evening and asked the teacher if she thought Daisy had been affected too much by the events, too which she replied 'what events?'........................she had not been informed.
Later that month the school published a letter encouraging parent/school communications!?!
Anyway my point is the school is really poor.
svpilot
04-03-08, 01:42 PM
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I would like to find out exactly how much the school makes out of this deal, is there a way of doing so under the FOI act?
This page gives an idea how the 'Fundraising' schemes work:
http://www.krispykreme.co.uk/How-it-works
So at their recommended cost they would make £3.70 per 12 doughnuts sold - so that must be the price they are prepared to sell our kids health for?
Nice!
So at their recommended cost they would make £3.70 per 12 doughnuts sold - so that must be the price they are prepared to sell our kids health for?
Nice!
it would seem that way?
and £1.10 for a dougnut..... i would not pay that, nevermind expecting a 9 year old to pay it
it is open to all children so from 4 onwards!!!!
SoulKiss
04-03-08, 02:05 PM
it would seem that way?
and £1.10 for a doughnut..... i would not pay that, nevermind expecting a 9 year old to pay it
Thats why you pop in past, see that its £1.10 each, see the "Dozen for £8" offer and decide to go for the value option and buy some for the office - because if you spend more but get less you are not being ripped off - right?
Then you eat the dozen before you get to the office cos they taste sooooo good, well the 1st 6 did, and now you are getting sick of them, but now you CANT take them into the office - they will know you ate 6 - so you hide round the corner and force yourself to eat the rest before stashing the empty box under a parked car.
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