Two friends of mine (well, Mums of my little one's friends) shared a rant post in which a Furious Mum was being Furious because she had "forgotten to send her daughter's £2-20 dinner money into school that day" and the school "made her eat toast and water even though she was hysterically crying and begging them for her dinner". Furious Mum furiously named and shamed the school.
Cue loads of tomato faces and "That's disgusting!!!" from my FB friends - both pleasant, sensible ladies, I hasten to add.
Maybe it didn't happen like that? I suggested, and checked the school's website. Sure enough, the school's side was that the mother had repeatedly not paid for her daughter's food, even though she was not entitled to free school meals. After repeated efforts to get in touch and tell her that they would no longer be able to continue supplying her daughter with free school meals she wasn't entitled to, they gave the little girl a cheese toastie, orange juice and two pieces of fruit.
I posted this on the two statuses who had shared the post and both ladies said something to the effect that nothing was ever black and white.
And then, in reply to my post, I got this status update (copied and pasted word for word. I've taken the name off, obvs):
I never pay my kids dinner money!! I always get billed for about 4 weeks. This is primarily because I work full time, work part time, study for a degree, manage a house, myself and 3 kids. I would nail them to the wall if this happened to my kids.... teachers always see things from a different point of view! I moved my kids from their school after repeated incidents. The final straw was a dinner lady telling phoebe to pick her dinner up that she dropped off the floor and eat it... OBVIOUSLY when I rang the school, in fact when the teacher poked my child in her arm I was consistently told the school would never do that. .. hmm let's put it this way, within 3 days I moved my high achieving kids from that school ( Ollies teacher really didn't want me to move him because he brought her stats up, yr 1 pupil achieving level 3) best move I made and I am very doubtful that the school they go to now would refuse to ever give my child a meal cos it's just morally wrong!! It's like punishing and making an example of a child... I am a Firm believer or psychological impacts and I recon this would be damaging to that child's confidence! I'd slate the school on social media most likely cos people vent when they are mad. I'm a respectable human, nether the less I'd still KICK off big time.. We all have a opinion, it's what makes us younique 😉😂
Gentle reader, I have not responded to this. But it makes me livid. I am possibly more annoyed by this self-centred, Perfect Mummy Perfect Kiddie Winkles post than by anything that has ever appeared on my timeline. AAAUUUGGGHHHH!!!!
Thank you for the rant opportunity!
Apologies for the long post here. I feel much better now!