I sent my daughter with homemade honey sweetened wholewheat banana bread with unsalted butter on it and they called me saying students were not allowed to bring cake with frosting for snack. I explained what I had sent and their response was well it looked like cake to us. sigh
Private school, public school I dealt with them both, home school was definitely best!
The mere fact that schools have time to go through the lunches of students to police for sugar just proves my tagline!