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March 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Mother Hazel Lebby is so furious she has threatened to take her child out of the school
- Headteacher said action was needed after parents racked up
£1,730 in unpaid dinner meals last year
By
Anthony Bond
14:53 EST, 29 March 2012
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14:55 EST, 29 March 2012
A six-year-old girl was given bread and jam instead of a hot school dinner for two days because her mum was just £4 in arrears.
Hazel Lebby, 37, says she was shocked to discover her daughter Hannah had twice been denied a lunch and has now threatened to take her child out of the school.
St Thomas’s School in Mitcham, Wimbledon, said it needed to take drastic action after parents racked up £1,730 in unpaid dinner meals last year.
Furious: Hazel Lebby, 37, was shocked to discover her daughter Hannah, 6, was given bread and jam instead of a hot school dinner for two days
Mrs Lebby said: ‘I was supposed to pay it on Monday but my car broke down so I totally forgot about having to sort it out.
‘Then the next morning I woke up with a leak. My carpet was soaking wet. I managed to get her to school on time but had to come back home and sort out the leak.
‘I would never in a million years think they would refuse a child dinner because I’m a couple of days late. No one had made an attempt to phone me and tell me my daughter had not been having a dinner.
‘The only reason I found out was because my daughter let it out.’
Mrs Lebby, from Mitcham, works for the catering company that provides the school’s dinners at another school.
She received a text from the school to say that because she was in arrears by £4 there ‘may not’ be a school lunch for her child today.
Big bill: St Thomas’s School in Mitcham, Wimbledon, said it needed to take drastic action after parents racked up £1,730 in unpaid dinner meals last year
Her daughter was given a substitute of two slices of bread and jam for two days.
She has since made an official complaint to Merton Council and has said she does not want her daughter to return to the school.
She said: ‘I personally feel if they can make a child feel like that then I really don’t want her to go there at all.
‘You don’t take it out on a child. All they had to do was pick up the phone and say we have noticed you are in arrears and your child will not be getting a dinner. I would have picked her up or brought down some lunch.’
But the school has defended the decision and the need to take drastic action following the large bill which was racked up on unpaid dinner meals last year.
Headteacher David Feasey said: ‘We are liable for those arrears and if parents don’t pay we have to foot the bill and it’s taking money away from resources we could be spending on the children.
‘Sometimes people experience difficulties and we can work around that.’
However, he did say he would ‘look into’ the wording of the text message to make it clear to parents whether their child would be refused a school lunch.
He added: ‘It’s a parent’s responsibility to make sure their child is fed, not the schools. It’s a service we provide but it has to be paid for.’
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I used to love jam sarnies for school as did my children…., what is the problem?
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What is wrong with sandwiches? I am from Australia and we have packed lunches at school there. It is nearly always sandwiches, fruit, yoghurt and cheese. How is a sandwich abusive?
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I like how bread and jam’ has been worded to make it sound link a draconian punishment… let’s face it – it was a jam sandwich! Nothing wrong with that. The story says that mum also got a text warning her about the situation. I congratulate the school on this one – they done the right thing.
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Whats wrong with a jam sandwhich for lunch???? and to have it two days on the trot?? did she not have breakfast at home and an evening meal??? The school did not see her go hungry!!!! wheres the problem?
– Louise , Australia, 30/3/2012 07:50
The stupid thing is that if the little girl was sent to school with a jam sandwich, it would probably be confiscated as it was deemed unhealthy. Although I admit I like a jam sandwich for lunch sometimes!
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Simple pay your bill and get what you pay for. Failing that take a pack lunch, which would consist of sandwiches anyway…
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At our local primary school, the food is provided externally and the company simply will not provide free food for those who haven’t paid. I know of teachers who have covered children’s dinner debts out of their own pocket in order to help the child have dinner, and the parents still haven’t reimbursed them!
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Nobody gets a free meal. It’s her responsibility to pay up irrelevant of excuses.
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If you went for your lunch anywhere else you would have to pay for it !!!!! Simple as that !!
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The unpaid bill is not the child’s fault so why humiliate the child?
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‘Threatened to take her child out of the school’? What would that achieve exactly? At least the school fed her – they didn’t make the child go without, so what’s her problem?
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