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Once it was established that the lunchbox did indeed belong to her daughter, she asked Audrey to return it. At this, Audrey began sobbing, and her daughter’s teacher asked if they could compromise and allow Audrey to keep the lunchbox for the remainder of the day since her lunch was already packed in it.
However, she refused to agree to this and told her daughter’s teacher that they had five minutes to find something else in which to put Audrey’s lunch so that her daughter could have the lunchbox back and she said that if they didn’t find anything, she would throw away Audrey’s lunch.
“Instead of finding her a closed container, they began arguing with me, so I stood up and grabbed the Bento box, and, in front of them, I threw the food out into the trashcan. Grabbing my daughter’s hand, I walked out of the office with the Bento box, leaving them to comfort the crying girl,” she continued.
A few hours after the incident, she updated her sister on everything, and her sister told her that even though her anger was valid, she should have just allowed Audrey to keep the lunchbox. Her sister added that she could have just bought her daughter a replacement Bento box.
But she didn’t agree with her sister. In her view, it was more about the principle of the thing. She didn’t think it was fair that her sister should be forced to buy another lunchbox because her daughter’s spoiled classmate, who has both physically and verbally bullied her daughter, stole the first one.
Upon reflection, she knew there was no way she could have just taken all of Audrey’s food out of the Bento box without throwing it away. With Bento boxes, you can put the food directly into it without worrying about packaging it. For example, if she had packed soup for her daughter’s lunch, she would have poured the soup directly into a Bento box compartment, and it would have stayed warm until lunchtime.
She stands by her actions and doesn’t care how immature or petty it may have been to throw a child’s lunch away. From her perspective, she was doing what she had to do to stand up for her daughter, which no one at her daughter’s school appeared to be doing, in her opinion.
Once she threw away Audrey’s lunch, there wasn’t a concern that Audrey wouldn’t have anything to eat because their school provides free lunches to the students. So, Audrey was given the alternative of having a hot lunch once her lunch was thrown away.
Also, she knows that Audrey’s family isn’t financially struggling. They live in the Dallas Fort Worth area, in a wealthy neighborhood, so from what she knows, Audrey’s sole reason for stealing the lunchbox in the first place was because she was a bully.
While she is, understandably, furious with the school’s lack of action concerning Audrey’s bullying, she does have anger towards Audrey directly. She doesn’t believe that Audrey being a child is an excuse for her terrible behavior.
Once her daughter’s semester is over, she plans to have her daughter attend a new school or even homeschool her daughter due to all the issues they have had.
