We don't know enough about the situation to assume it was harmless...it depends how it was done, was it truly just leaving something there? Or was it done in a threatening way, as in I know how to push your buttons and I will..and if the child on the receiving had been traumatized by war etc...who knows what went through his or her head...Trust me, a determined 14 year old, girl or boy, can transmit a whole lot of information through a ham sandwich. I don't know if that was the case here or not.

It makes me recall the days when Catholics were scared to go to public schools, and one real reason was the lunch situation..fear of being served, and somehow being made to eat, meat on Friday. We could be around it , we just couldn't eat it...I am sure there were cases of kids being held down by other kids and made to eat it...And there was also the fear of just the temptation....faith was taken quite seriously by us in those days, and still is by many people....

We can't accomodate each and every religious rule that people come here with, but we can't deliberately insult them either...mg