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Call for school lunchtime lock-in (Glasgow)

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Call for school lunchtime lock-in

The "lock-in" would stop children eating fast food for lunch
Glasgow Council has been urged to consider stopping pupils going out of school at lunchtime - to keep them away from junk food.

Unhealthy snacks and drinks could also be banned from packed lunches, as part of a healthy eating drive.

A report for Glasgow City Council said many secondary pupils shunned healthier menus offered in schools.


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I think this is a great idea - we were never allowed out at lunchtimes (apart from the couple of times we sneaked out )
dizzyblond

i agree - we weren't allowed out at lunch either
i struggle with the concept for all sorts of reasons

Nairn High Street is a nightmare at lunchtimes.....................
and i'm all for encourageing kids to eat healthier - such a shame that a lot aren't being educated at home
Sassinak

I think that stopping kids from roaming the streets and eating chips and cheese for lunch is a splendid idea - we had to have an extremely good reason for leaving school grounds at lunch time.
But I don't really see that they can impliment the ban on junk food in lunch boxes. Surely that is up to the parent. I know that a lot of kid's diet is wrong, but you cannot do a search of lunchboxes to make sure that the powers that be deem the food suitable.
zombiecazz

So when did it happen that schools had no control over this. When I was at school you only got to leave schools grounds if you went home for lunch or had really good reason.
Nowadays it seems they have no control over it. I have asked this at various schools before DS started high school and was told that they couldn't possibly stop them leaving or even police it.
When I was a lass ( ) if we were told to stay in school grounds, that's what we did.
kimmie

bring back the slap across the knuckles with the ruler!! thats what i say!! had that many a time....was too scared to leave school even for lunch
dizzyblond

i may be a little biased here but i wouldn';t have wanted to leave school at lunchtime we had to much fun - no horrible stuff.
my 1st secondary school was awful - but my 2nd one was fab, very strict, set in beautiful grounds but loads of opportunity, for me discipline works, i'd go back and do it all again tomorrow
IainC

zombiecazz wrote:
So when did it happen that schools had no control over this. When I was at school you only got to leave schools grounds if you went home for lunch or had really good reason.
Nowadays it seems they have no control over it. I have asked this at various schools before DS started high school and was told that they couldn't possibly stop them leaving or even police it.
When I was a lass ( ) if we were told to stay in school grounds, that's what we did.


We always left the High School I was at during lunch to go and get something to eat and then came back to play football/hockey. While some kids diets are bad, kids need a high fat diet for growth/energy. Its as much the lack of exersize as bad diets that is the cause of most of the overweight kids IMO.

If we'd have been made to stay in school at lunchtime then I'd have starved 'cos I never fancied anything they made. If it had been "healthier" food then I'd have no liked it even more.
wildgarlic

Interesting comment about the lack of exercise - I do agree that kids these days don't get enough of it... but wandering down to the chipper for a portion of chips and a blue drink (yes, bright blue and they wonder why kids misbehave!) - I do visit the chipper occasionally (always regret it because it always smells much better than it tastes) and one day I was in at school lunchtime and that chips and blue drink was ordered by every single child. *shudder*

I guess its good for business in places like Alford - but wonder whether the chipper/other food outlets could be asked to provide a healthier alternative with some kind of incentive for the kids to eat it. Also... I wonder whether the canteen at Alford (just as an example) could actually cope with the increase in numbers if we made the kids stay in for lunch.
baldowrie

dizzyblond discipline always works if it is implemented fairly!
IainC

wildgarlic wrote:
Interesting comment about the lack of exercise - I do agree that kids these days don't get enough of it... but wandering down to the chipper for a portion of chips and a blue drink (yes, bright blue and they wonder why kids misbehave!) - I do visit the chipper occasionally (always regret it because it always smells much better than it tastes) and one day I was in at school lunchtime and that chips and blue drink was ordered by every single child. *shudder*

I guess its good for business in places like Alford - but wonder whether the chipper/other food outlets could be asked to provide a healthier alternative with some kind of incentive for the kids to eat it. Also... I wonder whether the canteen at Alford (just as an example) could actually cope with the increase in numbers if we made the kids stay in for lunch.


I was never a fan of "antifreeze" type drinks. Our two are constantly on the go (normally anyway) but I've seen some kids who look like the only exersize they get is 7 situps a week (they sit up in the morning and lie back down at night )
baldowrie

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IainC

I've seen some kids who look like the only exersize they get is 7 situps a week (they sit up in the morning and lie back down at night )


Plently of those about!
misteralz

wildgarlic wrote:
but wonder whether the chipper/other food outlets could be asked to provide a healthier alternative with some kind of incentive for the kids to eat it.


Are you being serious? No, really, are you? Perhaps we should also try and persuade butchers to sell fish? Or for Louis Voutton to do away with the fleur de lays nonsense they have on all their stuff?

Anyways, I'm off to Holland and Barrett for a pound of beef dripping.
wildgarlic

misteralz wrote:
wildgarlic wrote:
but wonder whether the chipper/other food outlets could be asked to provide a healthier alternative with some kind of incentive for the kids to eat it.


Are you being serious? No, really, are you? Perhaps we should also try and persuade butchers to sell fish? Or for Louis Voutton to do away with the fleur de lays nonsense they have on all their stuff?

Anyways, I'm off to Holland and Barrett for a pound of beef dripping.


Yup - I'm being serious. Pies and pizza do NOT need to be deep fried. A healthier choice of fat that doesn't get reused too much could be used... you may even find that chips actually taste good! Nothing wrong with chips - if they are cut a wee bit thicker they'll have less oil on them too.

Oh... and beef dripping is fine too - in moderation. Wouldn't want to eat it by the spoonful though would ya! I read that as you were off to Holland LOL.
IainC

wildgarlic wrote:
Yup - I'm being serious. Pies and pizza do NOT need to be deep fried. A healthier choice of fat that doesn't get reused too much could be used... you may even find that chips actually taste good! Nothing wrong with chips - if they are cut a wee bit thicker they'll have less oil on them too.

Oh... and beef dripping is fine too - in moderation. Wouldn't want to eat it by the spoonful though would ya! I read that as you were off to Holland LOL.


Actually I don't like chips that are too fat as much as the crispier ones IYKWIM. Agree that pizza, etc doesn't need deep fried, I tend to only have fish suppers if I go to the chippie (or red pudding suppers but they can be hit or miss depending where you go).

Still say that for kids, exersize is far more important than what they are eating (although it's still important enough).
Julie

OMG! Lock kids in at lunchtime........Where would they go for a fag

Why the hell are Glasgow worried about a bit of junk food which they probably eat at home anyway. In my experience of secondary schools up here,too little attention being paid to who was openly sparking up outside the sports block was the issue.

Parents get five clear years to give their kids a taste for good healthy grub and parents pack their lunch boxes.

I think it is naive of Glasgow to think they can bring about that kind of change with a brief campaign. I smell a PR stunt
Ina

Julie wrote:
OMG! Lock kids in at lunchtime........Where would they go for a fag


Behind the bike shed - that's what they did in my time.

Oh no, sorry - they don't bike to school anymore, it's too dangerous...
baldowrie

health and safety issue!
lor138

....but surely it's against the kids human rights to be kept at the school at lunchtime
Julie

lor138 wrote:
....but surely it's against the kids human rights to be kept at the school at lunchtime



Who says the little beasts are human anyway
zombiecazz

Smooth Hound

i agree they should be kept in school at lunch time, not only because of the food issue, but because there a pain at lunch time, all over the place, crossing roads with out looking, going into shops on mass, shoplifting, i just hope they have the sense to stop the chip van going and parking next to the playing fields at lunchtime though. and of course they will have to impriove the school dinners, as for human rights, i would have thought that there human rights should be that the school should take responsibility for the kids till they get home, i dont see how that can be done if noone knows where they are. perhaps for the last yr in school they should be allowed to leave the school and make there own choices as to whether they want to be healthy and safwe or not say from 15 upwards.
Sassinak

I found it quite scary that my 11 year old grandson went from school dinners in a small village (Cuminestown) to being given the total freedom of Turriff. OK its not exactly the big city, but I do think that 11 and 12 year olds need a bit more supervision than they get at present.
wildgarlic

Agree with the comments that the younger secondary kids should be kept in but by the time they are 15 or so they should be more sensible.

Sass - I was worrying like that too and my son was only going to Alford!
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