Not only are brown bags out (paper waste!) and peanut butter and jelly largely verboten (allergies!), but many schools also police the snacks and even the kinds of containers the food is in. The level of patrolling varies by school district.
I'll admit to getting at least one curt note shoved into my kid's lunchbox reminding me of the school's food policy, along with the bagged evidence of the contraband that was confiscated. In one case, it was a single Christmas-wrapped chocolate Kiss.
Bad mommy!
One public school in Chicago was so fed up last year with junk parents packed that it banned home lunches altogether, saving parents from inevitable failure and food police intervention.
Reminds me of the time I made the egregious mistake of packing a soda in my daughter's lunch. After school, she told me she got in trouble for having it. "Soda isn't allowed at school! What were you thinking?" she told me. And it was just a diet soda.
And Ms. Dvorak shouldn't feel too bad about the note she got; it could've been worse: one school district in Flagstaff, AZ actually sent letters to parents whose kids who determined to be too fat.
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