Brickbat: Leave the Kid. Take the Cannoli.

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British Education Minister John Nash says schools have the authority to ban foods to promote healthy eating and to search students' lunches to make sure they aren't bringing those foods with them. He did say it would be good practice for the student to be present when his or her lunch is searched and for a second member of the staff to be there if anything has to be confiscated.

Comments

[Adans smith]

I bet the teahers lounge will be filled with goddies for their break.

[Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!]

"filled with goddies"

These snacks are simply divine!

[Adans smith]

Hey ,it's early,I haven't even had a stout yet.

[invisible furry hand]

There are worse things a teacher can do than take communion at their break

[Adans smith]

I had a few teachers that had a nip between class.

[Suthenboy]

They don't have penal colonies overseas anymore so they just turned the land of the Magna Carta into an island prison. Brilliant.

[invisible furry hand]

To be fair, John Nash was accurately describing the common law position, not actually advocating schools do so. Not that they need the encouragement:

The row over packed lunches erupted after Cherry Tree Primary School, in Colchester, banned junk food from packed lunches.

Outraged parents said it was unfair as the school's menu offers unhealthy food including high sugar desserts like flapjacks, cookies and mousse.

Do as we say, not as we do.

[Adans smith]

Maybe the sack lunches are cutting into the school's lunxh sales? I think their getting rid of the competition

[Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!]

"lunxh sales?"

Fried Mi-Go and a side of Shoggoth?

[Wasteland Wanderer]

Cthulumari?

[Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!]

That is...excellent, WW!

[UnCivilServant]

"If your pudding crawls out of the cup, remember to kill it quickly. We'd rather not have to deal with another roof shoggoth."

[Swiss Servator, rudert schwer!]

"roof shoggoth"

OK, now that is a good band name!

[Adans smith]

British food is the number 1 choice in hell.But Sam Smith,,that's godly.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The kids should dress up like natives and dump juice boxes into the nearest harbor.

[Ein Barde und ein Holzhacker]

So blue paint, celtic markings, mustaches, and tarten then?

[UnCivilServant]

No, as Morris Dancers, far more terrifying native creatures of the isles.

[Adans smith]

Larry Bird shirts?

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

It's a sad say day when Britain imports one of our most noted civil liberties, asset forfeiture without criminal conviction.

[Adans smith]

Hey they have a better form of government,the ruling party can just pass any law they think is needed. No dead white guy writings and separation of power getting in the way of'the children' and 'mother earth'.

[UnCivilServant]

Unless it conflicts with the will of the bureaucracy in Brussels or the judges in Luxembourg.

[Adans smith]

The betters have betters?

[Slammer]

Hey, teachers, leave those kids alone!

Then they get NSPCC called on them instead.

[Mickey Rat]

You cannot have your pudding even if you do eat your meat.

[Vernon Depner]

Aren't the teachers busy with...you know...teaching?

[AlmightyJB]

That's the funniest comment I'll read all day.