Food is deeply personal,cultural & often emotional. Children shouldn’t be made to feel that what their families eat is impure or morally inferior. Schools should educate, not police food choices. Diversity in India also means respecting what others eat. This is unacceptable!
A (Bengali) colleague of mine tells me today that her 6 yr old son came back home yesterday from a Noida school and refused to eat fish for dinner (otherwise a staple), because a teacher brainwashed the kid. Where the fuck are we heading? What’s this “purity” all about? Madness!