Teachers Stopping Kids from Buying Fast Food

The store owner pretends like he cares about the kids and young people.. It's about the money.

Anyway, the students want to eat garbage? Let them. The parents should do their job of educating on what they should and shouldn't eat.

I think the biggest problem is that there is no healthy alternative for the same price.

It is everywhere the same, after school kids go to the cheap chicken stores and buy £1.99 or £2.99 deal...can not even get a sandwich deal from that much anymore.

Schools should also serve healthier meals for kids at better prices which is affordable for low income families.

I disagree that teachers should have to stop kids before and after school. They are the teachers responsibility during school time only. Poor teachers have enough to do

Good on the teachers I wish teachers would also educate children in school more about healthier options and that consequence's of fast food

I don't think the teachers have any right to tell the children what they can and can't do after school hours. It is up to the parents if they wish to tell their children they can not go to a takeaway shop not the teachers. I think they are overstepped their mark. School seem like prisons nowadays to me. I don't know about that 2011 act allowing them to continue to lord it over kids after school. I think teachers should make sure they are spotting things like pupils being dyslexic and having aspergers not worrying about chips. I say that as they NEVER picked up on me being dyslexic or an aspie and yes, I am still angry about it.

kids will want to eat what they want, and a lot of junk is marketed towards them. Teachers ought to do their jobs and educate - what they are doing here is just punishment, which may make junk food seem even more attractive

I think the idea was to cause awareness of what children are eating. And where they are going when you give them lunch money. there are so many young children with health problems.

I personally think it is stupid that teachers do that.

Schools should concentrate on doing what they are supposed to do - teach. By all means teach about good healthy eating. but at the end of the day its up to families as to what they eat. We still see far too many pupils coming out of education without the basic skills and yet schools seem to care more about what the pupils eat or how they dress. I still recall the horror when my own son came home from infant school in tears because his favourite chocolate bar had been confiscated from his packed lunch. He was then under weight for his age and yet ended up going all day with nothing to eat because he was so upset. All we got from the school was a badly photocopied scrap of paper explaining about fighting obesity. Still makes me angry!

Yeah school banged on for years lecturing parents on what to provide,when my son was always small& underweight due to being born very premature.his dietician said to feed him up,so i had to keep repeating this to school.Now high schools and colleges dont even provide a proper lunch,its all paninis& burgers etc,and even the 'meal deals' arent cheap enough to provide a lunch,dessert and drink.so much for jamie olivers 'meddling'!

Teachers should teach,not nanny kids after school.maybe the government should re- introduce cookery lessons,or 'home economics' as it used to be,might help kids make better choices that way.