SEVERAL Southport pupils were disappointed to miss out on their school Christmas lunches this week.
No big deal, their parents should have completed and returned the requisite form on time to order the lunch and didn’t.
But what a sad sign of the times and of bureaucracy that portion control should be of such paramount importance that there is such inflexibility in the school meals system on one day of the year.
Children can be off school ill on the day the forms are originally sent home and school offices probably too busy to check up on missing returns.
Innovative parents decorated home lunch boxes to soften the blow for their children, some schools promised parents that if another child didn’t turn up on the day because of illness their meal could be offered, but others had no solution for those children left out through no fault of their own.
Bah humbug!
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