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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: wmenorr67 on February 14, 2012, 03:19:33 PM
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http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/02/14/outrage-after-school-tells-mom-her-child%E2%80%99s-lunch-is-unacceptable/
a lunch inspector at the school told the girl she couldn’t eat her turkey sandwich, banana, potato chips and apple juice. Instead providing the girl with a USDA-approved lunch with the following guidelines: one serving of meat, one serving of grains, and two servings of fruit or vegetables.
This is bullshit. To top it off the school sent a bill for $1.25 for the lunch they provided. I would have done a lot more than wrote an anonymous letter to the paper. So glad my son is now in a private school and my daughter has graduated high school.
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They have a lunch inspector? ???
Also, I was expecting like a lunch full of nothing but candy or something. A sandwich with a banana and chips? Really?
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This is an odd story. My first wife is a dietitian and has been the head of a local school district's food services program for about 20 years now. She is aware of no Federal regulations requiring any sort of monitoring what kids bring in their lunch bags and she says that her staff do not monitor lunches brought in by kids. She thinks this issue is unique to this school or the staff member involved.
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According the Atlanta Journal Constitution (who quoted it from the Carolina Journal but that link doesn't work) the school's replacement lunch was fried chicken nuggets.
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Boy, if only I had known schools were supposed to have lunch inspectors, I would have volunteered for it. I could have confiscated all kinds of unhealthy stuff.
We're so far beyond the looking glass I don't know what I look like anymore.
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According the Atlanta Journal Constitution (who quoted it from the Carolina Journal but that link doesn't work) the school's replacement lunch was fried chicken nuggets.
Yeah, I heard that, too. Yah, government!
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A lunch inspector? :facepalm:
Yet more confirmation that schools have gone off the rails. Besides, with the unacceptable lunch being a "turkey sandwich, banana, potato chips and apple juice" the only thing that was the least bit questionable was the chips. (It's not clear if the lunch was taken away or the 4-year old just stopped from eating it. If the former . . . a strongarm robbery occured.)
The parents of that child need to have a meeting with the "lunch inspector" and compel an apology to their little girl.
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The article said they sent the lunch home with the girl, she was just prevented from eating it.
When the girl returned home from school, her unopened lunch contained a note from the school saying that her lunch didn’t meet the guidelines and a $1.25 bill for the replacement lunch
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Also, I was expecting like a lunch full of nothing but candy or something. A sandwich with a banana and chips? Really?
That's what I was thinking too.
Also, this seems somehow apropos:
http://vimeo.com/23912176
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FYI - do not read the comments in the article if you still have, and want to retain, any remaining shred of respect for the intelligence of the human race.
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Thing is her lunch had one serving of meat, two servings of grain and two fruits. Glad the mother stood up but I think the stink could have been bigger.
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That's a gourmet lunch by the standard of my day. Which was PBJ, and maybe some chips.
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That's a gourmet lunch by the standard of my day. Which was PBJ, and maybe some chips.
I stopped eating lunch at school around 6th grade; the school was close enough that I could walk home and make my own during lunch hour, and thankfully we didn't have a closed campus (which is another BS move schools often pull...). Before then I used to get a PBJ on white bread sandwich, a Capri Sun pouch or a small bottle of SunnyD for a drink, and some other sundry item as a snack.
Nowhere near as healthy as this girl's lunch. :facepalm:
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Public schools delenda est.
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i'm all for kids eating healthier, and it sounds like the better lunch was taken home. we pack our kids lunches due to the crap they serve at the school. of course as a kid i can remember being envious of the twinkies in other's lunches.
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Public schools delenda est.
+1
They own us. (Or they believe they do.)
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Public schools delenda est.
Sic semper tyrannis.
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Good metaphor for the entire society. For this admin we are all in the third grade.
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I don't know if this is an old story or not, but I have heard this story mentioned on a couple radio shows now. I wonder if it will get any TV play.
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Saw a blurb on one of the 24 hour "news" channels while in the chow hall yesterday morning. Not sure what was said, just saw a stock photo and headline.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bettina-elias-siegel/did-a-state-inspector-rea_b_1282207.html?ref=food
Could Rush, Fox News, etc, possibly be wrong?
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Even still, what ever the "truth" the school is still in the wrong here.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bettina-elias-siegel/did-a-state-inspector-rea_b_1282207.html?ref=food
Could Rush, Fox News, etc, possibly be wrong?
Doesn't really make it right and sort of white washes the idea of "inspecting" kids lunches to "protect the children".
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bettina-elias-siegel/did-a-state-inspector-rea_b_1282207.html?ref=food
Could Rush, Fox News, etc, possibly be wrong?
I'm not sure that clears anything up. After all, the Huffington Post is no more credible than Rush Limbaugh or Fox News, and they only claim to be throwing out some additional theories, based on not much. =|
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There are almost zero additional facts provided in that article.
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Well they did mention that mom should have sent milk. Well doesn't cheese count as dairy? And she had juice. Once again this side of the story doesn't help the school's case any.
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There are almost zero additional facts provided in that article.
But the links in the article do.
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At this point, the only thing public school educritters could do to earn my respect would be ritual suicide. Or mass resignations.
They want duh-versity and multiculturalism? Here's their first vocabulary word: seppuku.
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Teenager hospitalized due to nuggets-only diet. (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57367638-10391704/british-teen-stacey-irvine-hospitalized-after-eating-nothing-but-chicken-nuggets-for-15-years/)
This apparently happened last month. Interesting timing.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4086801/Girl-eats-nothing-but-chicken-nuggets-for-15-years.html
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Yet more confirmation that schools have gone off the rail
No *expletive deleted*it. Schools are little kingdoms for the "respect mah authoritah!" types to rule over. Every principle I had was an egomaniac.
And worse, kids are indoctrinated into thinking that treatment is A-OK.
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"Every principle I had was an egomaniac."
whats the common element..... or elements
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"Every principle I had was an egomaniac."
whats the common element..... or elements
An old joke in school circles:
Q. What do you call a coach with a losing record.
A. Principal.
In many areas, school administration is dominated by men from coaching backgrounds who later got their administrator certificate when it became clear they weren't going to get a great coaching gig. IMO, this population of people accounts for a decent amount of authoritarian crap that ends up in schools, along with the extreme over-emphasis of football in school culture.
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Actually the principals that were bad that I dealt with were there because they couldn't hack it as a teacher.
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At this point, the only thing public school educritters could do to earn my respect would be ritual suicide. Or mass resignations.
They want duh-versity and multiculturalism? Here's their first vocabulary word: seppuku.
Funny. They prefer to make the culture commit suicide.
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Actually the principals that were bad that I dealt with were there because they couldn't hack it as a teacher.
That was the case for nearly all principals/administrators I have dealt with too. It was just that a lot of them were mediocre-to-poor coaches as well.
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Actually the principals that were bad that I dealt with were there because they couldn't hack it as a teacher.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, administrate.
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Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, administrate.
Those who can't administrate...become the head administrator. =|
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failing that they consult
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failing that they consult
For those who fail that? Politics? ???
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For those who fail that? Politics? ???
For those who fail politics? Teaching (post-secondary).
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For those who fail that? Politics? ???
Become a talking head guest for one the alphabet news agencies.