A school has been branded “like a dictatorship” after it banned all packed lunches - and only serves water and halal meat.
Aureus School in Didcot, Oxon, has come under fire from parents for its strict stance on its food policy.
Packed lunches are banned, and pupils and staff sit down to eat in the canteen together with an emphasis on eating healthily and socially.
Students and staff get to choose from eating a hot halal meat meal, hot gluten-free vegetarian meal, a jacket potato, a salad, a pasta pot or a baguette.
The school insists that only water may be drunk on site because “hydrated brains learn better”.
.... Reiterating the Halal kitchen policy, the document states this is to 'celebrate the diversity of our country’s culture'. [Daily Mirror] Read more
