A mother was left upset after she found out that her daughter, 6, had to eat her favorite lunch in a separate room because her teacher said that it was distracting other kids.
The angry mom took to Reddit and explained that her daughter didn’t want to eat her favorite foods anymore as she was forced to sit in a different room because of her ‘smelly lunch.’
“Recently she told me she didn’t want her packed lunches anymore and wanted to eat what the other kids were eating,” she wrote.
Her daughter asked for pizza as other kids were eating pizza. When the mother asked why she didn’t want to bring her favorite foods anymore, the 6-year-old said that she wanted to be allowed to sit with her friends during lunch.
“She told me it was because her teacher made her sit in the other room by herself during lunch times because she brought ‘smelly foods.’”
The mother said that she was left really upset, explaining that she’s half Chinese so her daughter wanted to eat her favorite Asian foods.
The mother called up the teacher for a meeting but the teacher said that the other students get easily distracted by ‘foreign’ foods.
“She refused to believe it was inappropriate and said she didn’t see anything wrong with sending her to eat by herself. I had to go to the principal and take my daughter to another homeroom to finish up the school year because that teacher said it only happened once despite my daughter swearing up and down it happened every few days for weeks before she told me,” she expressed.
People on Reddit were on the mother’s side, with one parent commenting: “Any teacher making a little kid sit by herself during lunch is an a******.”
Another wrote: “The teacher shouldn’t even be teaching if they’re going to discriminate and punish a kid just because she doesn’t have ‘Western’ foods. This will traumatize the kid and make her feel embarrassed of her own ethnicity.”
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