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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?
Kids in Chicago can't bring their own lunches to school?
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 didn't even eat lunch at school. My parents never packed me a lunch and the school food was crap, so I just ate "lunch" when I got home.
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.
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.
bleh. school lunch sucks. but i'm too lazy to pack anything myself so i eat it anyways. way overpriced, and never filling enough.
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.
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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.Seriously, shit would go down if they tried that.
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look at this guy
" 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!
" School lunches are better now, and offer more healthier options to promote better health, while what you bring from home can be 6 twinkies, "
" My daughter's school did something interestingly similar this year -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*Don't buy your kid school supplies. Just give us $15 and we'll supply them with what they need.
I mean... really? Wth?"
$15 is pretty reasonable, considering the price of stationary.
" @melcene said: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." My daughter's school did something interestingly similar this year -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. "Don't buy your kid school supplies. Just give us $15 and we'll supply them with what they need.
I mean... really? Wth?"
" 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. =)Just that Domino is shit. Sorry.
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Oh. Well fuck that then. No Sonic the Hedgehog book covers = no deal." @Tebbit said:
" @melcene said: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. "" My daughter's school did something interestingly similar this year -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. "Don't buy your kid school supplies. Just give us $15 and we'll supply them with what they need.
I mean... really? Wth?"
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.
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