Posted on 11/16/2018 9:31:11 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Some parents are seeing red over a ketchup crackdown at a New York school district.
Newsday reports that the Eastport-South Manor Central School District on Long Island is limiting students to two 9-gram packets of the condiment at lunch.
Assistant Superintendent Timothy Laube told families in a letter this week that ketchup and other condiments "have little or no nutritional value."
The district eliminated pump dispensers for condiments last year and switched to packets.
Parent Tim Petrou called the condiment cap "a little ridiculous." He said kids "should be allowed to have ketchup."
But school board member and parent Jeff Goldhammer said the restriction is not a big deal to his three kids. He said parents can send children to school with extra condiments if they want to.
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BYOC
Follow the money. Someone gets a bonus for “saving” the school money (which can now be used to hire more administrators). /s
Snowflakes Without Unlimited Ketchup.
Of all the horrors!
good to see parents focused on the important details of the disaster that is our public education system. /sarc
I doubt that the people pontificating about “only two packets” have never served lunch duty in a school.
Your government wants you to be healthy to reduce gov spending on healthcare.
That way they have more money for their pensions.
and BYOK!
I won't expect food service costs to go down.
Back in the Horn & Hardart automat cafeteria days legend has it that patrons would take the free catsup (ketchup) and the free hot water intended for tea and make soup with it.
From what I have seen from my own children attending our local public schools, there a minority of parents who are always aggrieved, always a victim, always ready to raise a stink for their “babies,” about ridiculous issues - like ketchup.
Yet these same fools will never monitor or utter a peep about serious academic things - why certain AP courses were eliminated from the school, how course curricula may have changed, what government-required test will be used for calculating a grade, academic standards, etc...
They are the drones of the nanny-state.
I didn’t like Ketchup as a kid, so there must be others who don’t, so get the kids who don’t want ketchup to get some and give it to those who do..............
. . . thereby costing the district much more than giving every kid a 64 oz. bottle of ketchup every day.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that like most other schools, this school's lunch program has already been privatized, so this is a move by the contract holder to maximize profits.
Laurel & Hardy did that in a movie, IIRC............
Burger King won’t give you any unless you demand it from the cashier.
$9 on Amazon for 200.
And your kids can sell them for a buck each at school.
Brings back bad memories of the “Reagan thinks ketchup is a vegetable” media scam.
The cost per ounce of packets vs. pump dispensers has to be astronomically higher. Eliminating it altogether was the only solution!
Half the time, this nonsense is financial corruption. The other half of these cases are petty tyrants enjoying pathetic doses of "power". Neither one should be acceptable to normal, decent people. We need far less government, and in particular far fewer restrictions on what kids may eat.
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