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British teachers allowed to search and confiscate unhealthy items from students' lunchboxes

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According to EAGnews.org, the British government will allow teachers to search lunchboxe.

British teachers and school leaders are now encouraged by the British government to use their powers, under the common law, to search inside student lunchboxes. The teachers are now granted access to them and are allowed to confiscate anything they deem unhealthy for students. This adds to the strictly implemented prohibition of unhealthy foods from being consumed on school grounds.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - Although the "lunch inspections" might be good intentions for children's health, some criticize the actions explaining the government and teachers could use that time to do better things for long-term success.

"Schools have common law powers to search pupils, with their consent, for items. There is nothing to prevent schools from having a policy of inspecting lunch boxes for food items that are prohibited under their school food policies," said Education Minister Lord Nash in a statement with Express. He added that if reasonable, any member of the school staff may do the inspection, confiscate and keep or destroy any of the banned items.


In Clochester, a six-year-old Cherry Tree Primary School student's lunch was prohibited, consisting of a Peperami sausage snack and scotch egg, which triggered the attempts of the government, as reported by the EAG News.

According to the Huffington Post, cereal bars were searched for and confiscated from the Manley Park Primary School in Manchester. Not everyone is fond of the authorities putting their noses in kids' lunches.

"Government should get out of people's lunchboxes and focus on trying to fix the big things like immigration and the deficit," said Douglas Carswell from the Ukip.

Labour MP's Iain Austin agrees, explaining that the country is suffering from literacy, academic and quality labor declines which in turn needs teachers to do better in schools, rather than constantly probing into the lunchboxes for prohibited food.

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