Birthday cakes banned by Blackpool primary school

[annie]

Elf n Safety strike again!

Birthday cakes have been banned by a primary school because teachers "do not have time" to check ingredients for pupils with allergies.

The ruling was posted in a newsletter on the website of Norbreck Primary Academy in Blackpool.

Parents were told cakes taken into school would be "sent home uneaten".

Head teacher Karen McCarter wrote: "I hate to be a killjoy... there are many reasons for this, some of them serious."

She added: "We are not able to account for the ingredients in the cake, we could therefore unknowingly give a product to a child to which they are allergic.

"Even if we had a list of ingredients, in a busy school day, it is too much to expect teachers to read ingredient lists and then decide who can and who cannot eat the product."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-la ... e-35321915

[maureenho]

I feel sorry for the kids of today, they will not know the freedom we had.

[wendy]

You can see why they have to do it.
Makes you wonder how people survived in the 50s

[maureenho]

Generations survived before, I had an allergy and still do but I got through in one piece, think there are far more allergies in today's world.