In Canadian school food news, a teacher at École ÉlÉmentaire catholique Sainte-Marie , a French Catholic school in Ontario has been “relieved of her duties” after she allegedly forced an eight-year-old girl to eat food from a garbage can. As CHCH reports, the girl’s family is not only angry about the incident itself, but the way the school immediately handled it.
This whole ordeal started when the third-grader threw an old banana into a trash can. Apparently this didn’t sit well her teacher, Renee Oettershagen. The girl’s grandmother, Ann Marie Stewart, relayed to CHCH her granddaughter’s account of what happened next, “[Oettershagen] peeled the banana with her bare hands that had been in the garbage can, broke off a piece, ate it, then instructed my granddaughter to eat the rest of the banana.”