Posted on 09/21/2019 4:11:24 PM PDT by RummyChick
A teenage student put her Minnesota High School on blast in a viral Facebook post showing her abysmal school lunch, outraging fellow students and parents alike.
Maryn Holler, a student at Apollo High School in St. Cloud, shared photos of her disheartening meal in a September 13 post that has been shared more than a 1000 times and has received more than a 1000 reacts.
The meal consists of what appears to be a hot dog bun covered in cheese with a pile of carrots and a small container of apple sauce.
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Alternatives to outright banning do exist. Claremont Academy Elementary School, also in Chicago, allows packed lunches but confiscates, or takes away, any excessively salty or sugary foods. In Alabama, Hartselle Junior High has prohibited students from bringing drinks from home.
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3756047
Here, it took me 15 seconds to find such an article.
State Inspectors Searching Children’s Lunch Boxes: “This Isn’t China, Is It?"
“seen kids through away 70% of the food they were served”
Why wouldn’t they, if this is what they’re served?
Mom packed my lunch — a fried egg sandwich with mustard every day. No refrigerator, so room temp by lunch time. I didn’t die.
Yeah.
Tuna, peanut butter or baloney sandwich. Chips. Ho-Ho (cheaper than the better Ding Dongs), apple or at times banana.
Is bringing your own darn lunch to school against the law now?
Never bought a school lunch. None in my family did.
See post 12.
It’s above your post too.
Little Village Academy — an almost 100% Hispanic demographic, though technically a “public school” — makes me wonder. Will look at the other examples that followed.
Back in the 50’s and early 60’s, I remember our lunchroom always had a pleasant aroma.
The school I taught at had some of the best desserts. Apple cobbler, blackberry cobbler, cinnamon rolls, chocolate cake...all freshly made. Alas those days are past.
We never had chips or deserts in our lunches. My mom was always a low-carb, walk, swim, roller-skate type of person and thus we all were!
maybe the mustard preserved it. never heard of it on an egg but going to try it
“Brown bag lunches are a thing of the past for the school’s parents and students. Carmona has banned them from campus.
Chicago Public Schools permits principals to decide how to handle home-packed lunches, reports the Los Angeles Times. While some merely confiscate sugary and salty snacks, Little Village Academy has stopped allowing them altogether.
Instead, children without medical exceptions are required to eat a school lunch whether they like it or not.”
https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2011/04/chicago-public-school-bans-bag-lunches.html
Both of you had a link to the same 2012 article. I would love to know the follow up.
No conservative would deny that bat-shiite crazy stuff happens (esp in public schools), but IMO we need to be careful about accusations that paint with a broad brush.
For quite a few years, our school had the best homestyle cook of the whole county in charge of the school cafeteria, maybe partly b/c her grandkids attended. Same type of thing - yeast rolls and cobblers from scratch.
My favorite was baloney, banana pepper cut in strips and mustard on white bread. I had that for years.
When I got to high school, I didn't eat lunch. Always trying to make weight for the wrestling team.
Just google
“Schools confiscate lunches not up to guidelines and you will find dozens of examples.
I would wait until I got home to eat. In a just world, that would be child abuse. They can’t feed that to prison inmates.
I have taken to the childhood days of baloney sandwiches on white bread with a grownup twist. Now I used olive loaf lunch meat, although it is not easy to find!
What would you expect from a government-run program? This is just another example of why American citizens should be keeping the government OUT of their lives, NOT trusting it to pay for their retirement, provide their healthcare, and raise their children. When Social Security goes broke, while you wait months for simple medical care, and your kid grows up an idiot - who you gonna blame?
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