Cheese Sandwiches for a punishment?

I thought prison food were fried bologna sandwiches. By the way, I bet those kids get away with murder at home if the parents start to complain because they had to eat cheese sandwiches because they acted up and had food fight. I would have had them clean up the lunch room with toothbrushes and elbow grease. Better yet, I would have had the parents come in and help. By the way, what kind of parents do these kids have if they think the kids can get away with anything and not listen?

nothing wrong with a cheese sandwich.especially grilled cheese. hey,if they don't like it,they shouldn't waste food throwing it around.

For me, this is a very effective way of punishing kids. I remember as a child where we are not allowed to play with our food because my parents always put the importance of how hard it is to put food on the table. Parents should not be angry when this happens, its about time kids who are privileged of having food on the table all the time learn to be thankful that they have food.

Throwing food is not a joke. It is sacred to all of us because having no food we will be hungry. That punishment suit for them as they commit wrong in the cafeteria. So that they will know that their doings are wrong. And for that punishment they will learned from it and don't do it again anymore. If I am the parents I not tolerate my son od taking it. Its for him.

It was a good way for the cafeteria lady to come up with that solution to make those kids realize the importance of having food in our tables. If you think about it, these kids are really lucky compared to the people in Africa and all places around the world. They should know the value of food and they should learn how to see it as something of great value in everyday life.

If I had been part of a food fight and my Mom and Dad had found out about it, I'd be in with the cleaning crew helping to clean up the facility AND I'd gone with nothing to eat at home. If I were a parent in the same situation, I'd done as my parents did. The kids deserved every bit of those cheeze sandwiches. And the parent who complained needs to grow some....and parent.

I would tell them to deal with it. I am surprised that they weren't arrested. It seems that is the way things are dealt with anymore. I am glad a school tried to take care of things without involving the law.

But I like grilled cheese sandwiches, so I would be like okay. Here is some issues, First did every student participate with the food fight. I doubt that and not everyone should be punished for the actions other. Second like I said to me a grilled cheese sandwich is a good thing so I am not seeing the whole prison food argument angle. Third parent if you disagree with the cafeteria food served, fix your child some food at home.

I think that the punishment should have been a starvation diet lunch. Cheese sandwiches are too good for these brats. I have no sympathy for anyone who wastes food. There are too many children who go hungry while these brats throw food around.

LAGLEN: My answers to your questions: L. Do you think the kids deserved this? M. Aw, hell yeah, if they were involved. Still, since they probably can't know who all were the guilty, as it happens in real life sometimes, the actions of a few bad actors can spoil it for everyone. L. Do you think the parent was right to be upset? M. Nah...she sounds like a lot of irresponsible parents raising little trolls now-a-days. Her little darling will recover. L Do you think this was prison food? M. No. That's far better than such fare. L. As a parent how would you react? M. I'd tell my kid that if he'd participated in such hooliganism, then he'd gotten what he'd "ordered off the menu," so to speak...& he could just have to quit mitching & boaning & eat his cold sandwich. However, if I were certain my kid hadn't joined the mob, I'd pack him a balanced lunch & sent him off to learn. He'd survive it. L. I think the kids deserved it. If they were so concerned with the food, they shouldn't have been throwing it. They also can pack a lunch. I would tell my kid to suck it up. It is only two days for crying out loud! M. Amen! L. What is your opinion? M. See above. Maggiepie POST THAT TOPIC THAT WON'T FIT ANYWHERE ELSE IN Open Mike!

I like cheese sammiches. Unless the kids are lactose intolerant, I don't see a problem. I think a better punishment would be to make them eat army chow. Half the time we had no idea what we were eating, and there were no"menus" or labels even. We literally pointed to the food and said, "I'll have whatever THAT is."

Well, it's unfair to the kids who didn't take part in throwing food, but it's still only two days of sandwiches. And it's not like eating sandwiches will kill them. Parents shouldn't overreact over this. It's not hard to just bring their own food for two days.

Those kids should suck it up and so should their parents. Had I complained to my mother about something like that I'd have been punished at home too! Too many, kids today are spoiled little toerags with no respect for all the things they are given - perhaps that is the problem the are GIVEN everything and have a very overdeveloped sense of entitlement. There's plenty of people who would be glad of a cheese sandwich.

I lol'd at this but I've to agree with that guy: "school supplies only the basic food requirement when there's been a food-throwing incident" Schools always try to make good meals always, if the entire community doesn't like it, they should talk with higher people about it and not go waste with some "fun". Still, I know some people that wouldn't mind the cheese sandwiches over a fish meal. If I was a parent, I would probably just talk with my son/daughter about that "fun" and then also talk with that higher people about the kids having fun with some X meals probably because it only means that lots of them don't like it a lot and there is already ways to make that not sooooo good meals become yummie.

I'm with you...I find it funny. It was an appropiate punishment. Kids shouldn't be allowed to have cell phones in school anyway! I think if they bring them, they should have to be left in the office...and I don't care if they are even in high school! As a parent, I wouldn't have been upset. I was a lunch aid for 13 years, but in the Headstart program. Marsha

Big deal, two days! Anyway, I like cheese sandwiches....

Hi, laglen. Well, it is a bit different, but it could have been much worse. They should be glad that it is only cheese sandwiches and not a worse punishment for food. If they had to have something worse, then they would be complaining then. They are lucky to not have had a severe punishment than what they already have.

I LIKE cheese sandwiches. Whats wrong with them? How is that 'prison food'?They should think themselves lucky that the dinner ladies didnt just walk out and refuse to supply any food at all. The kids should have more respect for the fact that they HAVE food and the parents should get over it and back the school. Whingeing about the sanctions effectively condones the behaviour.

I think these children deserved this punishment. They just wasted good food when they had it. I really don't like it when people have a food fight because they're wasting food when there are so many hungry people on the streets. These kids don't realize how lucky they are to have something to eat.