Posted on 05/24/2015 7:02:46 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
Walk the halls of Crawford High School and you'll see City Heights in miniature. The neighborhood is home to immigrants from Mexico, Southeast Asia and East Africa.
Several years ago, a group of refugee moms involved with the City Heights nonprofit Mid-City CAN began telling San Diego Unified's Foodservices Director Gary Petill their kids weren't eating lunch.
"All students here eat for free, so you have to ask yourself, why weren't they eating with us before?" Petill said.
Schools qualify for universal free lunches if more than 40 percent of their students come from families that qualify for other kinds of federal assistance.
The students weren't eating because the food wasn't halal. Muslims follow religious rules similar to Kosher dietary laws for meat and dairy.
So earlier this semester, Crawford began offering a halal chicken bowl twice a week.
"It's Mary's Free Range, vegetarian-fed, antibiotic-free, hormone-free, air-chilled organic chicken that you'd find in Whole Foods," Petill said.
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So I guess McRib day at the school cafeteria is out for the bro’s, then?
Where’s the ACLU whining about separation of Church & State?
“All students here eat for free”...
...really?! The food falls from the food tree? I’m sick and tired of hearing “free food”, “giving back to the community”, “reaching out”. All progressive drivel.
Build a house and they will come. We should shut all these Islamist mosques, imprison or deport all these Islamist clerics, stick Islamist citizens in mental institutions where they belong, and stop pandering to this religious sect in the public forum. All of this crap rolls downhill from Capitol hill in Washington and the maniac who lives there.
How's that working out for our enlightened European brethren?
Pilot program? Yeah. I’d think we’d had enough of Mooselimb pilot programs.
Pilot program? Yeah. I’d think we’d had enough of Mooselimb pilot programs.
It’s not a pilot program. It’s the camels nose under the tent.
The camel is in the tent and crapping all over it.
Would we be as concerned about the school catering to orthodox Jewish kids by serving Kosher foods? ...of course not...
Now if the school demanded everybody eat halal food, that would be a problem...
I know can be perceived as Muslim incrementalism, but it seems these mothers were simply concerned their children were not eating a lunch...
As far as I can tell, they asked for an accommodation, not demanded it...
Good point.
D@mned straight it is.
Who's the pilot? Mohammed Atta?
Nooooooooo. Perish the thought. That's just crazy conspiracy talk. Everyone knows they're coming here to become good little red, white and blue Americans.
but it seems these mothers were simply concerned their children were not eating a lunch...
What was stopping them from making their kids a bag lunch?
Do you understand how muslims work when they invade other nations? Have you paid attention to Europe? Doesn’t matter - soon we will have sharia law and all schools will provide halal meals. Screw Christians - they are so yesterday’s America.
I wonder if they would have done the same thing right after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? Serve sushi?
Yes, I do...
Have you paid attention to Europe?
Yes, I have..
Doesn’t matter - soon we will have sharia law and all schools will provide halal meals.
Horse puckey...
Screw Christians - they are so yesterday’s America.
Some will not bow down to Baal...
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