My school has had a similar rule for years and it’s never caused any significant problem. Parents and office staff do understand the difference between a parent dropping off an important medication and dropping off lunch. Rules can be applied with common sense once everybody starts being sensible about them.
Fact is, we’d let the lunch be delivered if it’s a boy who has forgotten once in two years or something. It’s when it happens repeatedly, so the lesson obviously isn’t being learnt that it’s a problem.
The problem is that too many times a decision is left to people with an agenda like tough love learning, it carries with it a responsibility to make the right decision. It’s kind of like teachers taking kids to the doctors for birth control or an abortion: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/teen-abortion-high-school/story?id=10189694, http://www.lifenews.com/2016/06/01/teacher-pregnant-after-sex-with-13-year-old-student-has-abortion-to-hide-sexual-abuse/, http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5005497/Schools-arrange-secret-abortions, http://www.schoolcounselor.org/magazine/blogs/september-october-2012/district-policy-and-student-pregnancy.
This is what I mean by a slippery slope. They should not step between the children and their parents for anything legal. That is not their job to “teach” kids adult responsibilities. It is the job of the parents. School systems do not raise children. They educate them.
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That concept is lacking in most American institutions. What we call common sense, like recognizing the difference between, "He forgot his lunch," and "His anti-seizure medication was backordered: here it is!", will get you sued for "discrimination."
Then why have the sign?
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