She's a cousin of Hakuna Matata.
Posted on 02/01/2008 8:32:14 PM PST by 3AngelaD
WASHINGTON - A Montgomery County Councilman railed against a popular school fundraiser Thursday, comparing a McDonald’s McTeacher Night to inviting children to a tobacco shop....McTeacher Nights, held at local McDonald’s franchises, involve school staff working the registers while students and families stop in to eat. In exchange, the franchise donates a percentage of the night’s profit to the school. This year, PTAs at Baker Middle School in Damascus and Cedar Grove Elementary in Germantown sponsored such fundraisers.
The flap over McTeacher nights arose during committee meetings in Rockville, where representatives from the Center for Science in the Public Interest presented a study of food marketing in Montgomery County schools. In exchange for fundraisers at places such as McDonald’s, they recommended exercise-a-thons, cell phone recycling programs and book fairs.
“The modest rewards to schools are not worth the long-term costs to children’s health and well-being,” said Ameena Batada, co-author of the report.
Sara Cailler, vice president of Cedar Grove’s PTA, called the McDonald’s events a spirited success. Citing a recent national news story about sick cows used for school lunches, she recommended Leventhal direct his concern to cafeterias.
And there’s a track record of supporting the effort, too. In 2006 the school board honored Germantown McDonald’s owner Glenn Kikuchi with a distinguished-service award for hosting the McTeacher events.
Soso Whaley finds nothing wrong with the McDonald’s option. In 2004 she documented her weight-loss regimen in an hour-long documentary, “Me and Mickey D.” For 30 days, she ate nothing but McDonald’s, losing 10 pounds and 45 cholesterol points....
Council President Mike Knapp, sipping a bottle of Mountain Dew, was less livid than Leventhal about the fundraisers.
“It’s a situation that’s well-intended,” he said. “You don’t want to wind up being the anti-fun police.”
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Exactly.
If we don’t start fighting this we will end up just like England.
These people are sick. They worry about McDonalds, while promoting lifestyles which far outweigh the dangers of fat, smoking, drunk driving, rock climbing, pick your poison. Nothing short of hypocritical.
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Just wondering?
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Lifestyles like homosexuality?
I am sure they would if the private schools and homeschoolers asked, MacDonald’s is big on these kinds of activities here, but how big of a PTA do you have if you are home schooling your children?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
When I left Maryland in 1999, our county had several hundred children in our homeschool support group.
She's a cousin of Hakuna Matata.
Oh, the irony. Ms. Whaley.
Montgomery County for you.
Here we do the same thing at a pizza parlor and there’s nothing but good all the way around from it.
Montgomery County for you.
Here we do the same thing at a pizza parlor and there’s nothing but good all the way around from it.
Oh and as much as they’re wanting to control food choices, they’re TERRIFIED parents and teachers might actually get together and rebel against the NEA’s socialization and indoctrination programs!
BINGO
“comparing McDonald’s McTeacher Night to inviting children to a tobacco shop”
Here we go.
And just plain promiscuous extramarital sex.
Funny about the woman eating only McD’s - isn’t that a copy of the “documentary” “Super Size Me”? That guy got weak and sickly.
Of course, if you eat nothing but 1 kind of thing all month, I’m betting regardless, you will be sickly.
I was just thinking of this the other day.
“..Center for Science in the Public Interest who want to force everyone to live on whole grains, raw vegetables and seaweed.”
I thought about doing just this to prove the point. Someone should make a documentary about a person eating only vegetables, etc, all month - and see how wan and pale and sickly they are. (I know it’s bad for certain aspects of important nutrients, but don’t remember which.)
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