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Chicago school bans some lunches brought from home
The Chicago Tribune ^ | April 11, 2011 | Monica Eng and Joel Hood

Posted on 11/30/2011 5:29:41 AM PST by Clintonfatigued

At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago's West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria.

Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their own unhealthful food choices.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: arth; chicago; food; homeschooling; homeschoolyourkids; liberalnonsense; nannystate; publicschools; schoollunch; totalitarian; unions
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To: Clintonfatigued

That’s so the kiddies will get the proper dosage of drugs that the Chicago Gov puts into the school lunches.


21 posted on 11/30/2011 5:46:28 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag
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To: JDW11235

It's also an article from April 2011!

Fire Elsa Carmona


22 posted on 11/30/2011 5:48:53 AM PST by wolficatZ (Somebody once wrote "Revenge is a dish that has to be eaten cold".)
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To: McLynnan

When I was a kid (decades ago), I participated in the school lunch. Unlike many of the other kids, my parents had to actually pay for my lunch. I remember that I didn’t like half of the items I was supposed to eat. When I would go through the lunch line the lunch people would want me to take something, if only a milk, so they could charge me for the lunch. Half the time, I refused (I don’t like milk, anyway), and they would get exasperated. My lunch was a dollar or two at that time, which tells me they were either charging a whole lot for lunch back then, or that this school lunch for $2.25 is heavily subsidized (which I know it is, by the fee and reduced lunch commentary). I’m sure now that it’s both.


23 posted on 11/30/2011 5:50:36 AM PST by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: Clintonfatigued
I went to their website which is skewed and parts are unreadable.

I am wondering if this is a charter school. The staff is very small and nearly all have Latino names.

So?...If this is a charter school then I have no problem with the lunch restrictions. The school is freely chosen by the parents.

If it is a compulsory attendance socialist K-12 school, then this is just one more example of the conflict that **all** compulsory socialist K-12 schools have with freedom of conscience and the First Amendment.

Some Freepers ( some even who are conservative) have complained about my use of the words “all” and “every”. So.....If anyone can cite and example and provide a link to an exception, please post it.

24 posted on 11/30/2011 5:51:12 AM PST by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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To: wolficatZ

Good catch! (I almost never check dates)


25 posted on 11/30/2011 5:51:38 AM PST by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: JDW11235
The school website is interesting. It is bilingual. ( Really)

I am wondering if this school is a charter school. The staff listed seems to be too small for it to be a normal, prison-like, compulsory attendance, socialist school.

26 posted on 11/30/2011 5:55:48 AM PST by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Welcome to the USSA, comrades.

The comrade workers of the SEIU must serve ALL meals to the comrade students.


27 posted on 11/30/2011 5:56:55 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: JDW11235

So sorry, I sent my reply to your FReepmail box. Eyes aren’t awake yet.

I have similar memories. My two brothers and I took our lunch everyday and bought milk a la carte. With a stay at home mom and a law enforcement dad every penny counted and we didn’t qualify for free lunch. I can remember envying the kids who bought on pizza day!

Off for coffee.........


28 posted on 11/30/2011 5:57:46 AM PST by McLynnan
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To: JDW11235
Any school that bans homemade lunches also puts more money in the pockets of the district’s food provider, Chartwells-Thompson.

Might as well start when the kiddies are young to teach them how to behave under a fascist regime. ...and it is a textbook example of fascism.

29 posted on 11/30/2011 5:58:08 AM PST by 6SJ7 (Meh.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

In a country where pizza is a vegetable, anything goes.


30 posted on 11/30/2011 5:58:29 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Clintonfatigued
At Claremont Academy Elementary
School Little Village Academy

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Academy? Academy? .....What is this Orwellian “Newspeak”. Is this another example of the corruption of the English language? Isn't the word, “Academy”, general reserved for **private** schools?

Are the socialist bureaucrats attempting to give their socialist K-12 compulsory prisons the patina of private exclusiveness by using the word, “Academy”?

Unfortunately, from the article I am not able to determine if Little Village “Academy” is a charter.

31 posted on 11/30/2011 6:04:05 AM PST by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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To: JDW11235
My mother was a "lunch lady" for many years (non-union). School lunches are, and always have been, heavily subsidized. The school lunch programs depended a great deal on government "commodities" such as flour, corn meal, peanut butter, powdered milk, cheese, raisins, and so forth.

It will surprise no one to learn that the way these commodities were apportioned (at least in the '70s and '80s and I doubt it's improved) made no sense whatsoever. Sometimes the schools in our small rural county would be given quantities of certain items that even I, as a young teenager, could see would never be used. The lunch ladies tried their best to use as much as they could, but you can only serve so many raisins in so many ways over the course of a school year. (Commodities were all or nothing, though; the school either took what was given, or got nothing. The excess could not be traded with another school nor given away; eventually it would be wasted.)

The school lunch program, in fact, might be one of the reasons I became a conservative at a fairly young age.

Government "support" of the school lunch program also has always meant government control of the types and amounts of foods served. When you hear Mrs. Obama or anyone else railing about needing to make school lunches healthier, don't forget that the nutritional standards for those lunches have been set by the USDA for at least 40 years.

32 posted on 11/30/2011 6:10:27 AM PST by susannah59
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To: Clintonfatigued

Tator tots? Roast leg of surprise? Mushy lima beans? Apple with worm? All set.


33 posted on 11/30/2011 6:13:11 AM PST by albie
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To: albie

Someone should park a BBQ truck on the street in front of the school.. Serve BBQ tacos for 50 cents. Undercut the school on lunch prices.

With lettuce, some cheese and a bit of salsa, the child will get some nutrition and it would be cheaper.


34 posted on 11/30/2011 6:18:43 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (To fix government, we need a rocket scientist. Oh, wait we have one!)
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To: susannah59

In the school district of my youth, all of the elementary school lunches were made at a factory, somewhere else. I never received a heaping scoop of mashed potatoes, etc. like you see on the movies. We received small trays (like a TV dinner), with shrink wrap on them for lunch, that way every meal was exactly the same. I don’t know why it was done that way, but it was. I still laugh at the thought of a big heaping pile of some food or another, just because I never saw it. I remember something that my dad told me, as a kid. He didn’t like the USDA food pyramid, because when he first saw it, he remembered where he saw it first, On some kind of feed used to fatten pigs (we have similar physiology). I dunno if it’s true or not (he does have a good memory). He has never liked the food pyramid of government telling us what to eat!


35 posted on 11/30/2011 6:25:15 AM PST by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: 6SJ7

Yep. Can’t have competition, free thought, or choice, can we?


36 posted on 11/30/2011 6:27:40 AM PST by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: McLynnan

Haha, when I first saw the FReepmail, I thought it was a super secret lunch secret. It’s still early, so no worries. :-)


37 posted on 11/30/2011 6:28:49 AM PST by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: JDW11235
"When I was a kid

I only ate the school lunch for part of one year when I was in the eighth grade at a catholic school. The food must have been leftovers from the Civil War it tasted so bad. You had no choice in what was on your plate, every kid got the same horrible muck. The soup was a runny, awful smelling vegetable/mystery meat soup. The peanut butter looked and tasted like industrial grade sludge. The smell of the canned green beans and creamed corn still lingers in my nostrils and turns my stomach. And so on.

Finally the principal said I lived too close to school so I should either bring a sack lunch or go home for lunch. I lived not quite a mile from school, so I gladly ran home for lunch. But even a lunch of baloney lunchmeat sandwich and an apple was preferable to the lunches they served at the school.

38 posted on 11/30/2011 6:33:23 AM PST by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Wow, that IS horrifying!


39 posted on 11/30/2011 6:34:56 AM PST by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: Clintonfatigued
she could not say how many schools prohibit packed lunches and that decision is left to the judgment of the principals

Uh, no. The judgment is still in the hands of the parents. The principal works at the discretion of the community, not the other way around. Enough parents get together and attend school board meetings this principal would be leaving the district. Better yet, run for a seat on the board. A peaceful group of parents paying the principal a visit and writing to the paper or tv news station are also options. I'm sure the local news has a comment section on their website, so parents can voice their opinions. Bottom line, this principal has made a public slap across parents' faces and they shouldn't cower and take it.

I would also question her motives in getting so many school lunches sold. Is she getting a kickback from the vendors?

FWIW, about once or twice a year our kids' principals have stepped out of line and minimal actions taken just by myself corrected the problems toot sweet.

40 posted on 11/30/2011 6:45:30 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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