Posted on 11/01/2015 7:23:31 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Solution:
Brown bag lunches.
Jam the ‘system’.
“Why aren’t those parents making lunch for each of their kids?”
To avoid having their children taken away from them by Child Protection Services under charges of child abuse for providing unapproved lunches.
“Brown bag lunches.”
It’s been tried. The children with the brown bag lunches shared them with the other children, so the school authorities moved in and banned them citing health issues such as peanut allergies and so forth as a critical health problem with sharing lunches.
There’s a phrase for this kind of rich.
Y’all know they changed the menus at military bases? They sited the weight gain of the general population raising medical costs.
http://www.delish.com/food/news/a38903/healthy-military-food/
Now what do a lot of people do when they are stressed or depressed? Eat junk. What stresses and depresses the military? The administration.
Try inspiring the population, not destroying the population at every level you spawns of satan.
I imagine that budget pressures also come into play. Sidwell parents pay for their kids' meals. Inner city schools have turned into comprehensive three meals a day feeding operations in which lunch money has to compete with pay raises for teachers, school security, more pay raises for teachers, benefit increases, pay raises, transportation, pay raises, athletics, and pay raises. And of course, academic instruction, which gets what is left over.
Maybe parents should go back to packing a lunch, just to be sure. A radical and perhaps subversive thought, I know, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
Sidwell Friends originated as a proprietary Quaker school in a rowhouse in downtown Washington. It was Sidwell's School before Mr. Sidwell got married, and The Sidwells' School after. The Sidwells were apparently gifted educators, and the school prospered and grew. The Sidwells were professionally successful and became affluent enough to join the early suburban exodus. This was back in the trolley era, so they purchased a small farm way out at the end of the trolley line, in what was still countryside.
Over time, "the farm" got incorporated into the life of the school for field days, nature study, picnics, etc. Time marched on, the Sidwells passed, the farm was left to the school, and when time came for expansion, the farm was a natural place to move the main campus. Meanwhile, of course, with the coming of the automobile, the city grew up around it.
The point is, Sidwell has an expansive campus for perfectly good historical reasons; it got the land before suburban sprawl inflated prices. As a result, it had acreage to play with. The classroom buildings were built at a distance from the highway. That was probably done for aesthetic and noise reasons, but today it presents a security advantage as well. Fronting Wisconsin Avenue today is a sunken parking lot topped by a soccer field. One classroom building is visible from the road beyond the field. The rest are out of site downslope.
I'm not a Sidwell parent, but between summer camps, school and club athletics, student theatricals and musicals, etc., I've been on the campuses of most of our local big names schools. Many of them have impressive campuses, but Sidwell's is one of the easiest to secure and is probably the best insulated from potential car or truck bombs. Even at schools like Georgetown Prep, Washington International, Stone Ridge, the Congressional School, the Potomac School, etc., which have large off-road campuses, an attacker could easily drive a vehicle right up to, or into, a classroom building. The Sidwell layout prevents that.
And of course, it is relatively close in, which minimizes the commute (itself a security factor), and it is a great school.
I don’t mean this in defense of Moochelle’s school lunch program at all, but look at the “grease pattern” in the taco shell vs. the “meat” in the taco shell. Makes me wonder if someone doctored the amount of meat. Even if you flattened out that teaspoon of meat, you wouldn’t get a grease print like that one.
Yeah.... whatever happened to taking a lunch to school?
So answer the one important question: where’s the money going?
Where photos should be in Post 1, I’m getting little black “X”es. Any suggestions how I can tweak my system to view them?
O my, that looks like something the cat harfed up
???
Where did this happen, that they did this?
When did this start?
Where and when did they start banning brown bag lunches??
Per whiskeyx, they’ve banned brown bag lunches.
Citing allergies, etc.
And that cps would go after the parents that did so.
I want to know where this happened and when it started.
“Where and when did they start banning brown bag lunches??”
I don’t recall the specifics now, but past articles on FR pointed to many news stories and news broadcasts focused on the official angle that brown bag lunches were a threat to the health of students who had allergies. The stories highlighted the many draconian responses to the student brown bag lunches.
A quick search turned up this much milder response:
Food Police Swap Brown Bag for Chicken Nuggets
http://www.mommytracked.com/20688
No one who is not homeless and drug dependent can't afford it. It is a matter of priorities. Almost everyone claims one's children to be his top priority. If that is actually the case then one can afford to homeschool them. Once one takes the step one finds out quickly that it is not a solitary venture, that there are others and the tasks are shared. Even the private and parochial schools cooperate.
Here’s another example:
Brown Bag Ban: Fed Gov Tells Preschool Parents No Lunch From Home Without a Doctor’s Note
http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/brown-bag-ban-fed-programs-preschool-says-no-lunch-from-home-without-a-doctors-note-10222013
you overlook one fact........ they will be a live and a thorn in our side for decades to come followed by their girls. it will be never ending grief
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