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Why Did a Tennessee Grade School Ban Pork?
Fox News & Commentary ^ | August 15, 2013 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 08/15/2013 10:13:45 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

A Tennessee elementary school banned students from eating ham sandwiches, BLT’s and anything else made with pork, but eventually lifted the ban after parents complained.

Third grade teachers at Sunset Elementary School in Brentwood, Tenn. sent home an “Approved Snack List” for the school year and it specifically banned anything that comes from a pig.snacklist

“No meats containing pork,” read the memorandum. “Starting Monday, August 12, 2013 your child must provide their own snack from the above approved snack list.”

Kids could nosh on raw vegetables without dips or sauces, fresh fruit, crackers, pretzels, and popcorn – but no ribs or pork rinds.

“Only choose a food from the following list to bring into school for snack,” the memorandum stated in bold-face type. “No other food items are permitted.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Tennessee; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: globaljihad; islam; jihadinamerica; mosque; muslim; pork; schoollunch
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To: Eva

Yea. thats what caught my eye first. That has to be illegal. Someone getting kickbacks or just putting on their favorite brands?


41 posted on 08/15/2013 10:39:35 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Most assuredly.


42 posted on 08/15/2013 10:40:34 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: BlatherNaut

The school takes food from my child.......you don’t want to be there for that.


43 posted on 08/15/2013 10:41:34 AM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

They are the lowest of the low, sleaziest of the sleaze. They take advantage of well intentioned parents who only want the best for the children they have to turn over to teachers’ care each day. They are scum in my mind.


44 posted on 08/15/2013 10:42:21 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Timber Rattler
I'd wonder "Why only Rold Gold Pretzels?"

This reads like a wish list for stocking some Diva's dressing room.

45 posted on 08/15/2013 10:42:49 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Steve_Seattle

Sorta a tradition to take my grandkids, school supply shopping, this year every item had a brand name underlined - it was a must.
Funny, the kids said, “no way grandma why should we pay $2.99 for crayolas when we can get an off brand for $0.99.
Love them


46 posted on 08/15/2013 10:43:53 AM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: Timber Rattler

Man, Franklin is about as tiny and rural as they come.

What is wrong with this world when redneck hillbillies bow down?


47 posted on 08/15/2013 10:44:33 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Gaffer

Looks like a Sharia move to me.

But here’s my story.

We moved from Claremont CA an upper middle class city to Elk Grove what I would consider a slight step down in the pecking order of hoity toityness.

Forst week of schools “housewives” were invited to meet at school to discuss putting on events for the school year. My ex, no slouch, and able to carry the fight well above her weight class, attended with a neighbor. One lady said she could get discounted paper products from price club. She was quickly informed that only HallMark designer paper products would be appropriate.

My ex and neighbor left the room because they couldn’t stop mocking and laughing.

There will some people in any group who will impose their standards on others necessary or not.

This person needs to be tarred and feathered and run out of town.

Shame needs to be reintroduced into the lives of public officials and wannabes.


48 posted on 08/15/2013 10:44:55 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: 0.E.O

Jews have had to live in all sorts of areas and don;t make a fuss, they simply adapt, they tell their children it is their responsibility to not eat pork.

Moose Slimes have always been in a dominant role in most of their hell hole countries so they DEMAND that everyone else adapt to them, they don’t demand that their own children be responsible for what they eat, they demand that the Kaffirs do it for them because the Moose slime opinion of the male is that they themselves are like lowly uncontrollable animals.

This is why it is always the woman’s fault for being raped because the animistic male saw a sliver of ankle flesh and went into uncontrollable lust and raped her, so obviously she should be stoned to death.....

This is yet another example of the lack of self control that is endemic in Moose Slime Male “anti-culture”...


49 posted on 08/15/2013 10:44:56 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Timber Rattler
Whoever typed this memo is a Low Information Speller.

"...including our s t u d e n t ' s that have..."

You don't use an apostrophe in a simply plural noun.

50 posted on 08/15/2013 10:46:21 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: morphing libertarian
There will some people in any group who will impose their standards on others necessary or not

They are usually liberals. Anyone who had to work really hard for their money wouldn't show their ass like that.

51 posted on 08/15/2013 10:46:27 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: PLD

I’m down with that1


52 posted on 08/15/2013 10:46:58 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: svcw
"Sorta a tradition to take my grandkids, school supply shopping, this year every item had a brand name underlined - it was a must. Funny, the kids said, “no way grandma why should we pay $2.99 for crayolas when we can get an off brand for $0.99. Love them"

As someone said in an earlier post, if we had any real journalists left, someone would be looking into this. What difference can it make what brand of pencil or ruler or notebook or crayon the students use?
53 posted on 08/15/2013 10:47:23 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Da Coyote
"If we don’t there will be war sooner or later."

There will be war in any event, except abject surrender. Islamic lunatics have a fourteen hundred year history of war that demonstrates this truism.

54 posted on 08/15/2013 10:48:59 AM PDT by YHAOS
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To: Gaffer
I noticed this with "Crayola" crayons. Mentioned it to my wife, who knows far more about these things than I.

She said, "It's because the generic crayons don't color worth a flip." I checked it out the next time I was playing with WBill Jr (our house is non-discriminatory when it comes to coloring utensils) .... she's right, the cheapies don't work very well at all.

Dunno about pencils. I prefer the real wood ones, over those plasticized ones. But that's just a preference, both write OK, near as I can tell. I've got "Ticonderoga", "Eberhardt-Faber (in #2 and #2.5) and some generic ones right at my desk, right now. All of them leave a mark when I scratch them on a piece of paper....

55 posted on 08/15/2013 10:50:37 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Timber Rattler

email address of Principal:

karenc@wcs.edu. She needs to be overwhelmed. Idiot!!!


56 posted on 08/15/2013 10:51:19 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Timber Rattler

This looks like ignorance on parade.


57 posted on 08/15/2013 10:51:47 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: SampleMan

“The letter states the restrictions are due to allergy concerns (a stupid concession of its own), but I’ve never heard of a person with a pork allergy.”

***

Me neither. And while I do know some people with real food allergies, I think a large number of these allergies are phony. Allergies are just being used to dictate to everyone what they can and can’t eat.


58 posted on 08/15/2013 10:52:36 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: YHAOS
"There will be war in any event, except abject surrender. Islamic lunatics have a fourteen hundred year history of war that demonstrates this truism."

For those who say "it can't happen here," just look how fast the military changed when "don't ask, don't tell" was dropped. Almost overnight, the military was sponsoring gay pride events, and Christians who objected - even on their personal Facebook pages - became subject to military discipline.
59 posted on 08/15/2013 10:52:44 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: wbill
"It's because the generic crayons don't color worth a flip."

With all due respect, your wife isn't the one doing the 'creative' coloring. More likely than not, the child sees no difference. The enjoyment the child gets is satisfaction in completion, and with a good "well done" added to that.

60 posted on 08/15/2013 10:53:27 AM PDT by Gaffer
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