A primary school has been under fire after announcing that they have banned children from bringing any kind of drinks but water with them in school.
Parents were left outraged after St Andrew’s Primary School from Hull, UK, informed them that their children were no longer allowed to bring drinks such as tea, milk, and juice to school as part of their mission to be inclusive of kids with allergies and reduce sugar intake.
“Our kid’s headteacher at primary has now not only issued a ban on juice during the day but now only water with kids’ packed lunches due to allergies and dairy allergies,” one upset parent said in an interview with Hull Daily Mail.
“He won’t put the allergy sufferers in a different room saying it’s penalizing them but it’s also penalizing the children without allergies.”
As the parent who chose to remain anonymous added, plenty of parents are upset by the ban and some of them are even thinking of pulling their kids out of the school.
“There is absolute uproar about it. It’s not nice to have a child with allergies but instead of upsetting everyone, and like he says it’s life-threatening, he needs to make sure the kids who have these life-threatening allergies are in their own safe area to eat what they want,” they added.
“We as parents are absolutely enraged. We give our children school compliant juices for their dinners as a lot of our children don’t like water. It’s like we are back at school ourselves, there’s always some daft rule in place.”
According to the school’s newsletter, however, the majority of parents appear to be happy with the new ban.
“Parents have added comments about how potentially harmful flavored water and dilute water can be due to their heavy sugar content. I was also reminded that children can have allergies of flavored, diluted fruit drinks,” the school wrote in a statement.
“Indeed, one child in our school did become poorly due to her allergy of the fruit content of a certain drink which her friend had in error brought in to school. We have to be so careful these days – staff and parents need to please keep working together to keep our children safe.”
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