WASHINGTON — A Missouri dad is upset after a substitute teacher sent home a note critical of the second-grader’s lunch.
The note said a cafeteria employee said the lunch consisted of four chocolate bars, a bag of marshmallows, Ritz crackers and a pickle.
But that’s wasn’t the whole lunch, says Dr. Justin Puckett, the father who is double board certified in osteopathic family medicine and obesity medicine.
The lunch actually consisted of four pieces of ham, low-fat string cheese, pickles, four marshmallows and “three very small pieces of chocolate.” The little girl shared the chocolate with two other children.
“We don’t eat a lot of bread,” Puckett says.
Now, the pickles may not have been the best choice for a vegetable when his daughter packed her lunch, but Puckett says there are some battles that aren’t worth fighting with his child.
“It just seems we are constantly be inundated with the inability to be parents to our children,” Puckett told ABC News.
Puckett refused to sign the note where the teacher asked Puckett to please see that his daughter “packs a proper lunch tomorrow.”
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The student’s regular teacher and the school superintendent have apologized to Puckett.
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