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Posted on 04/11/2011 11:18:37 AM PDT by mandaladon
Who would have ever thought that the youth would revolt over bringing their own lunches to school? But while young communists march against austerity in Britain, young people at one Chicago school are fighting their administrators for the opportunity to pack their own meals. All because the school wants to promote healthy choices.
“Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?” the Chicago Tribune recently observed seventh-grader Fernando Dominguez shouting to his lunch mates in Spanish and English at Little Village Academy. It‘s a public school on Chicago’s West Side.
As numerous hands reached for the ceiling, Dominguez led a chant: “We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch!”
At the school, students are only allowed to bring their own lunch if they have a medical excuse. Why? You guessed it: the school wants to protect children from food that’s unhealthy.
“Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,”Principal Elsa Carmona told the Tribune. “It’s about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It’s milk versus a Coke. But with allergies and any medical issue, of course, we would make an exception.” Carmona said she instituted the policy six years ago when she got tired of seeing kids bringing chips and soda. According to her, it’s a common practice in Chicago. And according to a district spokesperson, that’s okay.
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Freedom wise, it is better the children and their parents have a choice, Comrade Carmona.
Typical government-run nanny-state school, I'd say. We must protect the people from themselves!
Okay, I grew up mainly in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA and this would’ve dismayed and astonished my teachers, principals and the parents in my neighbor hood back in the 1960’s and early 70’s!! That’s how far we’ve come! My 5th grade teacher was a WWII Bataan Death March survivor and my 6th grade teacher’s hair turned white (overnight!) in Vietnam. I suspect that Mr. Lamb and Mr. Corbin would fight this tooth & nail!
This is Bull Shiite!
By the time I got to High School I hated their food. I don’t care for pizza and never have.
Whatever sauce they used in the pizza, sloppy joe and enchilada sucked and was to acidic. Besides, I can’t stand the taste of sauces out of a can.
I also can’t stand ravioli. Gag.
This is a scam to get more money into the school system and the parents should sue.
It doesn’t take into account individual dietary requirements and abrogates a parents decision about what their children should eat.
A parent has zero idea what is being served in a cafeteria.
I guarantee you my Mom would have said “take your lunch anyway and whatever happens I will support you. No one tells my kids what to eat.”
When I grew up, we weren’t allowed foods with sugar and if we had cereal you could only use 2 tsp.
I never cared for sweets as a kid and consequently don’t care for them now.
I never liked any drink with sugar in it either and at my school they served iced tea with sugar in it. Blech! I prefer chemical sweeteners and always have.
Kommunists!
“Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,”Principal Elsa Carmona”???????????
Dear Fascist Carmona:
You are full of crap. I would never eat the garbage served in a school cafeteria. I hate most of the foods you serve and don’t eat them at home.
Like ham. Not only do I not eat it but because of the sulphates I get a headache from it. So I would actually skip eating lunch.
Fascist!
“Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,”Principal Elsa Carmona”???????????
Dear Fascist Carmona:
I’ve heard wearing a Burka will actually protect me bees. Will your next helpful demand require we wear them next?
Because this is in Chicago, I’m guessing Carmona may be getting a kickback from the district’s food provider, which is paid by the federal government.
Now, this is the same federal government that they want to stay out of our bedrooms when it comes to disgusting sex choices . . . they can go into our kitchens, but stay out of our bedrooms.
How long before they start adding “medicine” to those foods to aid in the kids education? If they haven’t already.
No,no, I get it. “Health Choices” means do it their way or else.
Try telling that to my parents (both with M.Sc.'s in physical education, plus a doctorate in kinesiology for my father who taught health and human nutrition, etc. at the university level), back when I brought bag lunches to school every day.
The nanny state is getting ahead of itself. It's made idiots of its citizens, and then points to that idiocy as proof that it needs to take care of them for their own good!
But they let the children return to that same home at the end of the day.........for now.
Orwell was spot-on about Newspeak.
“Choice” = government mandated behavior.
I didn’t mind school food, but that is totally beside the point. I don’t care if you love it and want to eat it every day. It is NOT THE SCHOOL’S BUSINESS. In fact, I really don’t think there should be a school lunch program at all. If parents want to feed their kids junk, I feel sorry for the kids, but it’s the parent’s decision. If someone wants to get a charity together and come in and feed kids with donations, fine. Stop thinking the government and taxpayers should be doing it and then taking over the jobs parents should be doing. There will always be crappy parents. We don’t seem to have fewer or them because we have a zillion government programs either. It doesn’t seem to be working. Well, except I think it’s helped politicians and some companies...
It's way past time for a revolution. WAY PAST TIME!
Nothing like usurping parental authority.
There was an article in my newspaper yesterday by a public school teacher who was upset because apparently in Southern California, parents are pulling their children out of the public schools in droves and enrolling them in private church schools, which she claims are proliferating. She knew that there were plenty of Catholic schools, but private Christian schools?
Typical whiner — whining about the kids, whining about the parents, whining about the parents removing kids from the wonderful public schools and placing them in church schools.
Upset that these parents told her that they thought the California public schools were beyone hope. Well, these parents know what’s going on in the CA public schools and how difficult it is to send their kids there.
Get out while the getting’s good!
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