Lake County considers 'trash-cams' at school cafeterias

WKMG ^ | 10/2/2012 | Kristin Giannas

[Ezekiel]

I’m all for healthy eating but not if its force-fed by our “betters”. Makes me want to give each of these poor kids a big bag of candy. Kids can sense these bullies. They know they can’t reason with the Mooshill mob, so they’ll have to compensate by creative disposal methods such as you describe.

You know that the students who are budding patriots (and the rightful heirs to America) will be the most creative, even “in your face” about it. Carrots “hiding” in the teachers’ pencil holders... lettuce leaf bookmarks in the teachers’ answer books... attack of the killer tomatoes... celery boats filled with pea-people refugees floating in the teachers’... well you get the idea. :)

[cyn]

"It's a big issue, and it's very hard to get our hands around it," said School Board member Todd Howard, who suggested "trash-cams." "They have to take (the vegetable), and then it ends up in the trash can, and that's a waste of taxpayer money. It's also not giving students the nutrition that they need."

[cyn]

We don't need no stewed tomatoes
We don't need no cel'ry stix
No camera peeking in the trash cans
Mooshell leave our food alone.

Hey, nannies! Leave the kids alone!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Our Great Mother Moochelle will be pleased with this action.

Nanny State PING!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[TigersEye]

The evil teenager in me has so many ideas for things to put in front of those cams. lol

[TigersEye]

The solution for stubborn students is obvious.

Have some MO lunch!

[ichabod1]

Just assign a monitor to stand by the trash cans with a clipboard and evaluate whether the child has finished their vegetable medley sufficiently and if not, find out why not, record their names, and if a repeat offender, give them information as to why they should eat their vegetable medley along with their pig in a blanket and potato surprise.