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At Least One Lunchroom Nanny in Woodstock Grade School

February 19, 2012 By: Cal Skinner Category: Lunchroom, Nanny, Police, Woodstock School District 200

The North Carolina school with the lunchroom nanny apologized to the child's parents late last week.

Perhaps you heard of the lunchroom nanny in North Carolina.

Well, you don’t have to go that far to find the kids’ lunch food police.

At one Woodstock elementary school, a lunchroom nanny disapproved of the brownie that a child brought with her home-packed lunch.

I don’t know the admonishment, but the little person was told by someone in authority that it was not good for her and she couldn’t eat it.

From my college days I know about the in loco parentis (in place of the parent), but the parent made the meal. The parent’s intention was clear.

Where does a District 200 employee get off telling the child he/she can’t eat a brownie?