Thursday - August 01, 2013

school dinner lady serves wrong dish to muslim kid, gets the sack. says was accident.

Just another reason I think this place is doomed.  And don’t be to quick to feel safe America.  I have doubts we’ll escape the same sort of political right thinking back home.  Especially from what some of you have said and mailed to me.  It’ll just take a bit longer due to our size. Unless we get help from our good friends in,
in, uh,,, wait a minute.  I have to think. Our friends in Europe? Nah. That doesn’t look right.
Guess we’re on our own.

Meanwhile, while waiting for the sky to fall, take a look at this.

Primary school dinner lady sacked for ‘negligence, carelessness or idleness’ after she accidentally served gammon to a Muslim pupil

Alison Waldock, 51, apologised for mistake as soon as error was spotted

She said it was difficult to keep track of more than 40 students with different dietary requirements with the lists she was given

But despite 11 years working as a dinner lady, she was sacked by Queen Edith Primary School in Cambridge

By SUZANNAH HILLS

A primary school dinner lady has been sacked for accidentally serving pork to a Muslim pupil.

Alison Waldock, 51, ‘forgot’ the seven-year-old dietary needs when she asked if the schoolgirl wanted gammon and the youngster said yes.

The school’s headteacher spotted the mistake as the youngster was about to tuck into the meat and swept the plate away from her.

The girl’s parents were then told how close their daughter had come to eating the meat, which is banned in their religion.

They complained to the school’s catering firm and Ms Waldock, a dinner lady for 11 years, was suspended pending an investigation.

She insisted she had made an honest mistake and had simply lost track of all the dietary requirements of the children at Queen Edith Primary School in Cambridge.

But she was dismissed a month later for gross misconduct due to ‘negligence, carelessness or idleness’.

Ms Waldock, a mother-of-two, said: ‘I feel the school and catering company made me a scapegoat so they can’t be seen as politically incorrect.
‘I was really upset when I found out what I’d done. I’d never have done something like this on purpose. It was a simple mistake - I was so gutted with the school’s reaction.
‘I’m now too scared to take any similar catering jobs with the council.
‘I don’t think I will ever work as a dinner lady again. I don’t want to go through all this again - it has been horrible.’

Ms Waldock, of Cambridge, added there were around 40 pupils with various dietary requirements and it was impossible to keep track of them with the lists she was given.

British Muslim groups said Ms Waldock’s sacking was ‘heavy-handed’ and an ‘overreaction’.

Inayat Buglawala of campaign group Muslim4UK said: ‘Mistakes occasionally happen. I’m sure the overwhelming majority of Muslim parents would be understanding.

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I seriously have my doubts that a 7 year old girl would even know what Gammon is. But then, not having kids, how would I know. But it sure does look from here, like politically correct overreaction.  Even muslim groups aren’t complaining and appear to be against the action taken by the school.
I also wonder why the dish could not have been removed and some believable story given the girl, and not said anything to parents but just a warning to the dinner lady.  Nit picky stuff and shame someone has lost her job.  That is, if it was as appears. Just an accident.

btw, read about a school here that has substituted those fluffy balls, darn it I can’t remember what they are called. They float safely even hit hard. Damn, what are they?  Well anyway, one school has taken away the hard balls used in some sports lest some kid get hit and hurt. Schools are afraid of law suits. One has replaced hockey pucks with some kind of soft thing that hardly goes anywhere.

A hundred million years ago when I was in school, I got hit by a softball during recess.  I was under the damn thing and lost it somehow. Maybe the sun. I don’t remember but it landed on my head. No big deal and mom didn’t take anyone to court and the school didn’t expect that kind of thing anyway.
How times and attitudes have changed.

Posted by peiper     on 08/01/2013 at 05:00 AM   
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