Should we hit kids with wooden spoons?
What an interesting variety of feedback we've had since Friday's splash story on a dinner lady sacked for punching the lights out of a too-cheeky school pupil!
I knew the tale would be the one talked about down the pub, but didn't predict just how angry it would get readers.
"This kid should have been smacked red with a wooden spoon," was among the most extreme of responses. "It's time we stood up for school staff who must be driven mad by these little runts."
I guess I sort of understand this viewpoint from the "flog 'em and hang 'em" brigade, but I can also remember days of white cabbage and lumpy custard at my schools (West Heath Junior and the then Primrose Hill Comp).
Do school pupils really have to put up with being fed pig swill?
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Steve Dyson
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You should have gone to Golden Hillock School in the 1940's when Mrs.Parkin was the cook and Yardley Grammar School in the late 40's ,early 50's. The dinners were absolutely delicious. There was very little waste and we had proper cooked meals,done on the premises without any of the "fast food" that pretends to be the real thing these days.
Crap school food is nothing new - I remember us having double helpings of chips for a whole term.
Double chips sounds great!! I remember white cabbage at West Heath Junior School, and it still haunts me. Then again, at what was then Primrose Hill, my mum used to give me 50p a day for lunch. With that, I'd buy Free Dinner tickets off lads from the estate, usually at 50p for a week's worth, and providing my lunch all week and £2 profit!! The dinners, therefore, couldn't have been that bad at that stage...