Mr. Damian White:

School meals are dispensed in classrooms. They are eaten while the teacher in the same room. It would not be long before a teacher would notice, because teachers notice. As teachers, it is part of our DNA to watch out for things. We see trends. We may see somebody slipping food into his or her bag, or whatever, to hide it and so on. A teacher would note it one day and bring it up if he or she saw it happening again. The teacher might whisper to a parent and ask why a student is not eating. The teacher would not embarrass the child. It is part of what the teacher does and does naturally. I was a school principal but we were not on the school meals programme before I left to take up this job. However, if somebody was not eating his or her lunch, a teacher might whisper that to me, as principal. I might call in that parent and so on. It is one of those soft skills a teacher has; he or she spots a lot. When one is on yard duty, one sees many things from a fair distance. One logs them and deals with them as they come up. Teachers certainly pay a part in spotting trends like that.