Apparently unless you have a documented health condition or allergy, you are only allowed cafeteria food. My mom used to pack my lunch when I was that age, and she sure as hell gave me healthier stuff than any school cafeteria would have. Regardless, it seems way over the top to tell kids they have no choice but to buy the school lunch every day.
Does anyone actually agree with this nanny state mentality? Or can we all agree that this is going too far?
If they are forcing them to buy it, then I would say fuck them and keep giving my kid his/her lunch. If it's healthy, he/she likes it, and it's free then I'm all for it.
i read that on yahoo news today. it's messed up that they can't bring their own lunch. the lunches that i ate at school were probably unhealthy at all. they were unhealthy meals that i remember eating. in high school i stopped eating cafeteria food because of how nasty it was. they would reheat food from the first lunch wave for the second lunch wave. another reason i stopped buying lunches was because they had codes that people would have to put in to pay for their food. they would record what you ate. it just slowed down buying food so there wasn't a lot of time to eat if there was a big line.
It might be going too far, but it would be likewise foolish to overreact and act as this was "1984" or something. Its just a bad decision, I doubt it will last long.
Its because there has been amovement to upgrade the luches kids get at schools. When they stopped offering sugary garbage, kids start brining in their own sugary garbage. This is meant to try to address the childhood obesity problem
I want that Fernando kid to become a little mini Che. The students revolt, locking down the school, lining teachers up against the wall and pelting them with dodge balls, forcing the Principal to flee to a neighboring school.
Chicago Public Schools are generally regarded as being pretty awful. That said, as long as they offer decent, healthy food for the kids, it shouldn't be a problem. Seeing as it's the CPS handling this though, I'm sure they'll take the lowest bid and serve the kids crap.
If they are forcing kids to eat the same processed crap that schools fed me when I was in going, then I am totally against this. However, in an effort to make up for losses in the cafeteria, and ONLY if they are serving improved healthy meals, would I be behind this.
People wholly against this are the same that bitch that America is too fat, yet when someone makes a change like this to confront it, we go all freedom's rights on their asses.
That shit would not fly at my school. I ate cafeteria lunches, but forcing me to eat food I don't like is dumb as hell. My parents gave up on it, and I guarantee I have no doubt that I could eventually break the school. If not by myself, then with a schoolwide hunger strike.
That shit would not fly at my school. I ate cafeteria lunches, but forcing me to eat food I don't like is dumb as hell. My parents gave up on it, and I guarantee I have no doubt that I could eventually break the school. If not by myself, then with a schoolwide hunger strike.
" If they are forcing kids to eat the same processed crap that schools fed me when I was in going, then I am totally against this. However, in an effort to make up for losses in the cafeteria, and ONLY if they are serving improved healthy meals, would I be behind this. People wholly against this are the same that bitch that America is too fat, yet when someone makes a change like this to confront it, we go all freedom's rights on their asses. "
I also hope they change gym to actual gym, like where the fat kids actually have to participate and...lose weight. Would also cut down on the rate of fat chicks. Everyone wins!
" My daughter's school did something interestingly similar this year -
Don't buy your kid school supplies. Just give us $15 and we'll supply them with what they need.
I mean... really? Wth?
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Wait, I would have loved that to be an option when I was at school! I dreaded having to go out during the dying hours of the end of year break to buy school supplies. It was the first sign of having to go back... *shudder* $15 is pretty reasonable, considering the price of stationary.
" My daughter's school did something interestingly similar this year -
Don't buy your kid school supplies. Just give us $15 and we'll supply them with what they need.
I mean... really? Wth?
"
Wait, I would have loved that to be an option when I was at school! I dreaded having to go out during the dying hours of the end of year break to buy school supplies. It was the first sign of having to go back... *shudder*$15 is pretty reasonable, considering the price of stationary. "
Im guessing 15 dollars to the school buys you 10 dollars of warehouse school supplies such as pencils with rock hard smear-erasers, half a pack of loose leaf paper, and "slightly used" binders.
" This is stupid. Why would I pay $10 for School Lunches, when I could go to Domino's for some Hot Pizza and see the Hot Girls sitting on the chairs. =)
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Just that Domino is shit. Sorry.
Anyway, that is stupid. I don't see any problem bringing their own lunch to school. Huh.
"The kids may have money or earn money and (buy junk food) without their parents' knowledge," Stinson said, adding that most parents expect that the school will look out for their children.
At least the kids are getting prepared for buying/selling pot in highschool.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall when they try and enforce this. I'd love to see the referral. I'd frame that shit. I'd love to see the principal explain it to the mother.
" My daughter's school did something interestingly similar this year -
Don't buy your kid school supplies. Just give us $15 and we'll supply them with what they need.
I mean... really? Wth?
"
Wait, I would have loved that to be an option when I was at school! I dreaded having to go out during the dying hours of the end of year break to buy school supplies. It was the first sign of having to go back... *shudder*$15 is pretty reasonable, considering the price of stationary. "
Im guessing 15 dollars to the school buys you 10 dollars of warehouse school supplies such as pencils with rock hard smear-erasers, half a pack of loose leaf paper, and "slightly used" binders. "
Oh. Well fuck that then. No Sonic the Hedgehog book covers = no deal.
This is goddamn bullshit. This isn't about nutrition, and making kids healthier - first of all, school lunches aren't as healthy as they're made out to be, and the principal doesn't provide any proof as to why their particular food is more healthy, only makes a generic statement about cafeteria food being healthy. What this really is about is money - instating this policy requires the entire student body to invest in the school. I don't understand how this is constitutional.
Yeah, I saw this yesterday. Absolutely ridiculous. I don't know how this doesn't violate a law or something. And how the hell do they enforce this? Make the kid throw away his lunch when he brings it? Make him deposit money in his lunch account to pay for the food? I'm sure there are more than a few parents out there that don't agree with this.
Man I used to get an iced tea, some cheese crackers, and an apple. Maybe a pizza pocket on a lucky day.
Then in jr. high school forward I shopped at the cafeteria or at the mall. But you shouldn't force kids to eat at the cafeteria, what if their parents can't afford it or don't feel like giving their kids unhealthy crap (it was all unhealthy crap in my schools)?
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