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LONDON, March 16 (UPI) -- A primary school in Britain has begun treating its pupils like prisoners, searching their lunches to remove any offending junk food items, two parents say.
Magdi Cullen, whose daughter Maria attends Danegrove Primary School, said the actions by workers at the London school are comparable to those employed at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, The Daily Mail said Sunday.
"When I found out about what they were doing, I thought, 'This is a primary school, not Guantanamo Bay,'" said Cullen, whose daughter is 9.
"I can't believe that teachers go through their lunchboxes because there might be something like a small chocolate bar."
Cullen's husband, Jerry, offered a more drastic take on the food searches, comparing school officials with the Gestapo secret police forces used by the Nazis during World War II.
"The whole situation is ridiculous and the teachers are acting like the mealtime Gestapo by going through their lunchboxes," he told the Mail.
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