An outraged mum is demanding an apology from her daughter's school after the youngster was 'told to eat food she’d flung in a bin'.
Furious mother Seteasha said that her daughter Cianna-Rae, eight, was told to eat cheese sandwiches that she had thrown away because they were "tasteless and the bread hard".
Seteasha, 31, said: “Not even a dog gets treated like this.”
She now wants to move her daughter away from Osborne Primary School in Birmingham, reports Birmingham Live.
The primary school said that the children's sandwiches are securely sealed in cling film and then placed in paper bags.
The bin is only used to dispose of the paper bags. They are not used to deposit food waste.
Schoolgirl Cianna-Rae said: “I sat down but the bread was a bit hard and there wasn’t any butter or anything, it was just plain cheese, so I threw it in the bin and a dinner lady told me to eat it.
“I took it out of the bin and when she wasn’t looking I put it back in the bin and then went outside.”
Mum Seteasha, from Erdington, Birmingham, said: “I felt absolutely disgusted. Not even a dog gets treated like that. Why she was told to take it out of the bin and eat it?”
Seteasha added: “My daughter explained to me that she and two other friends didn’t like their lunch so they put it in the bin.
“A dinner lady saw this and made them take the food out of the bin and eat it. The girls didn’t eat it and threw it in the bin again.
“They haven’t eaten the food, but it’s still the principle. Food has been taken out of the bin - whether it’s wrapped or not. It’s disgusting.”
She added: “The school hasn’t apologised. They just said the sandwiches were wrapped, therefore the food hadn’t been contaminated.
“But, at the end of the day, it’s still a bin. There’s still bacteria on the outside of the packaging.”
The mum said she made her concerns known to the headteacher, but feels the situation was not taken seriously.
“There’s been previous issues at the school. I’m a parent and I’m quite open. If my daughter has a problem or something has happened it should be resolved,” she said.
“Some parents don’t say anything, they don’t question things.”
She added: “We need to get her out. We are going to get her out now. It’s time to move.”
Seteasha said the incident happened on January 21 - but she was told to wait 10 days for feedback from the school.
A spokesperson for Osborne Primary School said: “We have taken the time to investigate after this concern was raised, to understand the circumstances and establish what can be learned in terms of improving the children’s lunchtime options and experience.
“We have also tried to keep the parents of all the children informed.
“The lunchtime supervisor became concerned that the children hadn’t eaten their lunch, which remained unopened. They had chosen cheese sandwiches, which are wrapped in clingfilm and placed inside individual paper bags.
“The school is required to wrap all sandwiches like this as a result of Natasha’s Law, which ensures that food cannot be contaminated. This means that the children’s sandwiches were in no way contaminated by other food.
“The bin in question is only used to deposit the individual paper bags in.
“However, as a result of the supervisor’s concern, we have identified that the choice of sandwiches on offer to these children was the root of the problem.
“We have now adapted the menu to provide specific sandwiches for them, to ensure they can have a lunch which they will enjoy.
“Osborne is committed to an inclusive policy which ensures everyone is treated equally and fairly regardless of gender, trans, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, physical or mental disability.”
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