Parents reject 'bossy' lunch box advice, says Ofsted

Summary
Schools are seen as bossy and interfering when they tell parents what should not be in the lunchbox. Parents prefer advice on how to prepare healthy lunches. Inspectors, visiting schools to see how they got the healthy eating message across found that primary schools offered fruit and that secondary schools did not meet the standards because they provided deep-fried lunches and teachers did not feel comfortable telling parents what to do. Some schools still provide free school meals and their major weakness, as in many other schools, is the lack of monitoring and provision to ensure that school food is prepared as it should be.

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I think that it is very important that children learn to eat healthy foods. It gives them energy to concentrate which is one of the requirements at school. I can understand that children enjoy the deep-fried, fatty snacks and that’s why a school should cut down that supply of food and enlarge the supply of healthy foods. Give all students a card which they can buy. With this card they can have a healthy meal every day of the week and 2 snacks. This could ensure that children eat less snacks. I do not think you should take all snacks away because they could always get it somewhere else.