A Melbourne school crossing supervisor has been banned from handing out treats to students.
Kaye Kittelty, who has been a “lollipop lady” for the past four years, hands out icy poles and hot pies once a term.
But she has been forced to stop because it is “not hygienic” and takes the attention away from her duties.
“I got a phone call from my supervisor who said I couldn’t do it anymore because someone had complained,” Ms Kittelty told the Maroondah Leader.
Kaye Kittelty works at a busy school crossing. File image via iStock.
“It’s the principle of the thing and it makes you wonder what the world is coming to," she said.
Maroondah Council enforced the ban but a group of Year 6 students have started a petition to have it reversed.
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I know this lovely woman is doing this out of love etc. But I don't think it's appropriate.
I don't have a problem with this - her job is to maintain a pedestrian crossing and ensure children are safe. She can't be doing that effeciently if she's chatting with people and handing out lollies all the time.
On the flipside, if a man was outside the school handing out lollies, we would have already locked him up and labelled him a pedophile by now.
We wouldn't have locked him up if he'd been a lollipop man. It's all about context. If you have no reason to be outside the school handing out lollies, then it's not appropriate.