Posted on 09/08/2012 10:48:08 PM PDT by newzjunkey
This is why local control is critical, not mandates from D.C., not tax money being laundered through the Washington central planners and returned with strings attached.
And if indeed a student has not eaten all weekend, should the parents not be contacted?
Because in my book that is child neglect.
This country is really going down the tubes. It seems that now we don’t even expect parents to feed their children.
Isn’t a high protein diet good for you?
Fruits are FULL of sugar, grains are FULL of carbs (which are sugars, of course)l veggies are good, of course.
What’s wrong with proteins? I thought a high protein low carb diet was good for you.
Oh, it’s like everyone has gotten so stupid, I just can’t deal with it.
I’m glad I’m the age I am, the end of my life is no longer out of sight. I won’t mind leaving this realm of the moronic.
yes it is neglect ..but i know teachers who send food home with kids at their own expense because they know the kids wong have food at home. parents sell food stamps or food from food stamps for drugs or cigaretts; that sort of thing.
exactly..and most nutritionist are fat and telling everyone else how to eat. most of the food they give the kids at school I would not have in my house. its junk. processed junk.
High protein diets are essential for kids.
So at my son’s school this year, they got rid of ranch dressing because they said it was not a healthy choice. But guess what??? Now NONE of the kids are choosing salad or carrots or broccoli, because there is no dip!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Odd. I would have thought that with obesity being the main health concern for children, complete elimination of the school lunch program would be indicated.
Our local school district sent a note home two-weeks ago about starting up MO’s “starve-your-kid-at-school” lunch program. Our 1st grader was so disgusted by what the cafeteria is now serving (or isn’t serving) that he insists that we pack his lunch everyday, which I’m more than happy to do.
In an era as refined as ours, when good manners, and fine breeding are a given, when every boy is well versed in table manners and restraint, to witness such a display, is truly evidence of starvation and good breeding overcome by base need.
Truly hungry people eat whatever food comes their way, yes, even the dreaded vegetables.
You're fortunate that's allowed in your area.
We've already seen a Chicago-area school ban packed lunches and North Carolina schools inspecting home-brought lunches for nutritional content and requiring purchase of replacement items.
Exactly. There wasn’t much “obesity” at Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, the Siberian Gulags, the Japanese prisoner cages or Luft Stalags, was there? If you saw a scrap of any kind of food, you’d jump for it.
Local control is only part of it. Knowing the school will feed their children, those on welfare will spend their state stipend on other things besides food. Welfare has destroyed a good portion of our society.
Exactly. The parents must be getting "food stamps" so what are they doing with them? Buying lottery tickets, booze, or whatever else they can get away with?
It all boils downs to obama not wanting to mess with his base. "You doan wanna go to the trouble a feeding yo chillun? Thass OK. We doot for you."
Actually, the article points out that this is true even for the kids who pay full price for their lunches.
It makes sense for schools to offer food on the premises, because it’s generally not possible for kids to leave the building to buy something, and some of them simply don’t like sandwiches. School food has never been great, but in the past, at least there was something they could buy that would get them through the day.
Michelle’s bizarre idea that kids are supposed to survive on vegetables alone is ridiculous and harmful to them. Maybe the next step is eating grass, the way the North Koreans do. For everybody except Moochelle, of course.
Sheep, all of them!
Pack his lunch while you still can...you do know that the next step will likely be to ban that practice.
If Obama is reelected - count on it.
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