[DesertRhino]

And a doctor cannot send a note detailing that a child must follow a special diet. HIPPA baby!
No school could demand a note spelling out the details of a child’s medical condition. HIPPA, ADA, etc ad nauseum. This ALONE proves that the school is making this policy up on the wing. And a school cannot use medical as the only exemption. Halal? Kosher?
What a joke.

Send them an attorneys letter saying that refusing to let them eat it will be child abuse, and that confiscation of the child’s lunch from home will be seen as larceny.

[EinNYC]

The school lunches that I have personally seen are pure crap. They are pre-portioned frozen pizza, pasta, chicken, tortillas, etc. They look very carb-heavy and vitamin-poor. Third-quality fruit is served and often ends up on the floor. Relatively few kids take salad when it's offered, mostly the girls. The cooked veggies look overdone and I don't see many eating them. Many kids simply step right over to the vending machines right in the cafeteria and purchase cookies, chips, etc. Just great.

It is indeed RARE that I see a kid chowing down on a homemade lunch.

When I was a kid in school, I always had a lunch from home, in my lunchbox.

Just another piece of parenting foisted off onto the school system.