Letter: Stop telling children what to eat

Letter: The student-organised boycott of school meals at Church Stretton School shows how unhappy children are with government dictating what they should eat.

It is no use providing "healthy meals" that children will not eat and that are mostly thrown away to stop them being counted.

Council staff at the Shirehall and patients at Shelton Hospital have far better food than school children.

Maybe parents and governors should be permitted to make unannounced visits so as to ensure no special meals are cooked in order to sample the fare that children have to eat?

There should be an end to the Jamie Oliver-inspired meals, and central government prescription on menus.

There is an old adage that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink!

Children are certainly not going to get fat on the portion sizes schools provide, never mind the content.

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