December 1, 2023 at 10:16 am

Teacher Tells Mom The Lunch She Packed For Her Son Is “Disgusting And Inappropriate.” They’re Korean And She Packed Kimchi.

by Matthew Gilligan

Source: Reddit/AITA/Unsplash/@anniespratt

Call me crazy, but I don’t think anyone should tell anyone else what they should feed their kids.

And the mom who wrote this story on Reddit’s “Am I the *******?” page asked the fine folks on that website if they think she’s a jerk for what she feeds her son for lunch.

Hmmmm, let’s see what’s going on here.

AITA for packing my kid an “inappropriate” lunch?

“I (34F) have a (5M) son who attends preschool.

She got a call from her son’s school.

A few hours after I picked him up from school today, I got a phone call from his teacher.

She made absolutely no effort to sound kind when she, in an extremely rude and annoyed tone, told me to stop packing my son such “disgusting and inappropriate” lunches.

She was NOT happy.

I felt absolutely appalled when she said this, as me and the teacher have, up until now, always maintained a very friendly relationship. She added that the lunches I’m packing my son are “very distracting for the other students and have an unpleasant odor.”

I told her that I understand her concerns, as the lunches I pack are definitely not the healthiest, but the lunches are according to my son’s preferences.

The usual lunch that I send him to school with is small celery sticks with blue cheese and goat cheese, kimchi and spam (we are Korean and he absolutely adores this dish), and spicy Doritos marinated in Sriracha (I know, I know, but he deserves a snack, and I don’t put that many chips in the baggy.)

But she stood her ground.

I ended the call by saying that I very much appreciated her worries, but that at the end of the day, I am not going to drastically change my son’s’ lunches all of a sudden, and that it’s not my fault if other students are “distracted” by his meal.

It is very important to me what my son enjoys, and I want him to like my lunches.

But the teacher wasn’t done yet.

The teacher sent an Email to me an hour ago saying that my response was “unacceptable” and that his lunches are “just too inappropriate to be sent to school any longer.”

I haven’t responded yet and don’t want to. I want to maintain a healthy relationship with my son’s teachers. I am confused as to what to do.

AITA?”

Let’s see how Reddit users reacted.

This person doesn’t think this woman should be teaching.

Source: Reddit/AITA

Another individual said she’s NTA and there’s nothing wrong with this food.

Source: Reddit/AITA

One Reddit user thinks they know where this took place.

Source: Reddit/AITA

Another person wouldn’t have done this…

Source: Reddit/AITA

And this Reddit user said the teacher was to blame in this story.

Source: Reddit/AITA

A lot of folks need to take this advice to heart!