by A group of parents has accused a vegetarian primary school to have endangered children’s health.
More than 100 parents at the Sharrow School in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, have signed a petition in which the school was asked who advertised as a vegetarian to put meat back on the menu.
According to state guidelines, schools should offer a part of meat or poultry three or more days a week – with oily fish every three weeks.
Petition to change
The school’s menu comprises main meals with cheese and onion rolls, “Quorn Grills” and Margherita pizzas, whereby the only meat or fish finger being served on Fridays.
Emre Hald, whose 11-year-old sister attended school, has started a petition to change the menu and accused the school of having endangered children’s health.
The 22-year-old said that he had been addressed by children outside of the school work to ask them to buy food to them.
He said: “I think it’s important. In my area, some children asked me to buy rice and chicken from the shop. They didn’t even ask for sweets.
“Many children at school got really bad stomachs, and one of the children went to the doctor with a bad stomach we know.
“He said to my mother that he believes that it is the school meals. Many children are so poor that they don’t get meals after two meals a day at school.”
Worried parent
One parent of a student at school who asked not to be named, said her daughter had woken up with stomach pain since changing the menu.
The worried mother said: “I only had her have a jacket potato at school – she had stomach pain every day, she really got sick.
“Brains need fat to run, they have to eat animal fat – it’s so easy, I don’t care what someone else says.
“To remove this and only give them sugar and wheat, it is hideous in my opinion.”
Campaign groups said that some schools are cut from the menus from the menus as part of the cost reduction measures.
In the Sharrow School, 48 percent of students can calculate free school meals.
The current state financing for free school meals in England is only 2.61 GBP per meal.
Laca, a group that represents school food, has requested the increase in the interest to 3.16 GBP per meal.
In a recently carried out survey, the commercial authority found that over half of the schools surveyed had replaced meat with cheaper protein sources to reduce the costs.
The Sharrow School was contacted for a comment.
