Posted on 05/06/2015 11:36:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
All children, regardless of their circumstances, deserve safe, nourishing and delicious school meals.
One of the best ways to help district nutrition programs as they transition to healthier food is to buy school lunch for your children.
When I talk with parents about school food, many are so disappointed in the options their schools provide that they’ve simply opted out. They pack their children’s lunches every day, giving up on their school’s nutrition program as a lost cause.
I understand and support parents who insist their children eat healthfully and responsibly. My dream is a nation in which all food – especially school food – is nourishing, safe and sustainably produced. And I strongly believe that parents should be engaged in their children’s diets, helping them learn to love fresh, delicious, nutrient-rich foods. But when a parent’s solution is to opt out of school food and not look back, I feel the loss keenly. There goes one potential change-maker who can make a real difference in his or her community.
Many of these same parents acknowledge the necessity of school food programs for children who would otherwise go hungry. But I think they’re missing something important. To implicitly state that school lunch is necessary for poor children, but a terrible choice for families that can afford better is emblematic of the social justice issues surrounding school food.
Of the over 30 million children who eat school lunch every day, more than 71.5 percent come from disadvantaged families. Many of these children come from the 14.3 percent of households that experienced food insecurity in 2013....
(Excerpt) Read more at health.usnews.com ...
Looks more like The Stepford School.
more than 71.5 percent come from disadvantaged families///
What is that? What’s disadvantaged?
Would that be your husband being in the hospital clinging to life after his third heart attack?
Would that be you visiting him in between NURSING SCHOOL, Taking care of FIVE KIDS, two still very young, and occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to cry before moving forward again.
Would that be taking the nursing exams in your early forties so you could provide a descent life for your sick husband and kids?
That’ what my mother did so we wouldn’t be “Disadvantaged”
71 percent??? Where the biggest health problem that our poorest face is obesity??? Where our 10th percentile (ie, 90 percent of Americans are richer) still live better than the 50th percentile, the average person, in major nations such as Brazil and Portugal...
I guess wealthy and middle class families don't have any kids, and the bottom quartile has enough for 3 quartiles?
Notice how the article is worded, by the way...
One of the best ways to help district nutrition programs as they transition to healthier food is to buy school lunch for your children.
Help the district: buy from them... in other words, they need more of your money to do what they want, so they will force you to "give" that money for their programs.
That's the core issue right there, and the author's thesis statement. "It's NOT FAIR that your children get to eat the good lunches that you provide, and you don't even bother to participate in our social justice campaign."
It's a collectivist premise from beginning to end, with no allowance for individual parents being responsible for their children.
Has history been taught for the past fifty years in this country? WHEN has a collectivist government thrived? Dolts.
I bet this author really freaks out over homeschoolers.
No, they don’t. Deserve’s got nothing to do with it. Schools are not our kid’s feeders. This is nothing more than another socialist brain fart, without the brain.
it must give him fits.
Homeschooling is one way to avoid sub standard school food. The reason kids are packing a lunch is they are hungry. They won’t eat Moochelle’s crappy food and their parents don’t want them going hungry.
Did you hear about the kingergarden kid who brought Oreos to school and got sent home with a note.
Stay out of my kids lunch sack, food nazi.
All your children are belong to us.
No “Reply” function at article, but here’s a Twitter link:
Hot Link- Please copy and paste.
https://twitter.com/USNewsHealth/status/593037816881410049
I let my thoughts fly :)
That is the longest stick of gum I have ever seen!
When I was a kid, I was taught that a meal should contain one serving each of dairy, meat or eggs, fruits or vegetables, and a starch.
Obesity was not as prevalent then.
In that picture, I see kids with totally inadequate lunches of salad, a slice of fruit, and a glass of milk. How is that supposed to fuel them through the day? How can that possibly be adequate nutrition for growing bodies?
No justice, no Pizza.
This article is laughable. For starters, the statement that families who opt out of school lunch are no longer useful to their community.
Chef Ann...
uses the word “sustainable”
doesn’t believe in choice unless the choice is for more government in our lives
has been drawing salary from school lunch gig for 15 years
has an “honorary doctorate”
has her own non-profit foundation, if you please, and all the tax benefits it entails...
Yep. She’s a watermelon.
As soon as the premise that it is the job of government to feed them is accepted, yeah.
where’s a picture of that burned plastic covered burrito one district served to the kids?
Ann feels this “keenly”? I wonder what she feels when parents opt for homeschooling? My goodness! The poor dear!
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