Doctor Dad SLAPS DOWN Busybody Teacher Over Daughter’s Sack Lunch

The Daily Caller ^ | January 24, 2015 | Eric Owens

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

A Kirksville, Mo. doctor righteously and very satisfyingly slapped down a substitute teacher after she sent a note home condemning the lunch his second-grade daughter had brought to school.

The doctor and mad dad is Justin Puckett, reports ABC News.

As Puckett — who is certified in obesity medicine — later observed to the principal at the school, the teacher and a cafeteria worker didn’t see the whole lunch. Sure, they saw a pickle, a bag of marshmallows, some Ritz crackers and four tiny chocolate bars.

Importantly, what the sub and the lunch lady missed were four pieces of ham and a stick of low-fat string cheese.

There was no bread because the Puckett family isn’t big on bread. Also, the chocolate bars were for sharing with friends.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Good for him!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Nanny State PING!

[miss marmelstein]

Wow, outside of a low-cal cheese string (low-cal cheese is inedible and should not be served to anyone) it sounded like a great lunch to me!

[DesertRhino]

Where in Gods name does a teacher get off discussing the contents of a kids lunchbag with a parent? Teaches have no business lecturing parents.

Tell ‘em to shove their opinion where the sun don’t shine.

[MtnClimber]

These goobermint gatekeepers need their anus cut out and fed to them. The only meal fit for them.

[Ouderkirk]

I’ve been tempted to send my kids in with a Coke, just to see what they’d do.

[ClearCase_guy]

“Dammit, Jim! I’m a doctor not a dietician!”

[Fungi]

Since when is it the teacher's job to go through a child's lunch? Parents can feed their kids what they want. Just another case of public education being a substitute for parents, all in the name of collectivism; get them while they are young and it is harder to change when older. Children have become nothing more than advocates for a leftist state.

[jwalsh07]

The Doctor and the teacher are both aholes. My sympathies to the kid.

[TigersEye]

Slap them harder. Home school your kid! ;-)

[TomGuy]

“It was all meant with the best of intentions,” [school superintendent] Kizzire said.

It always is with Liberals and their ideas. They are just too shortsighted to see the results and unintended consequences of their hair-brained ideas.

[PROCON]

I'll have his medical license revoked!

[COBOL2Java]

Someone ought to ask ol’ Nanny State Huckaphony his opinion on this; after all, he’s considering a run for the White House.

[TomGuy]

(low-cal cheese is inedible and should not be served to anyone)

I bought some store brand 0% milk fat cottage cheese a couple of weeks ago. The stuff was not fit to eat. Never again.

[Huskrrrr]

Teachers! Leave them kids alone!

[COBOL2Java]

[Bartholomew Roberts]

When I was in a public elementary school, back in the late ‘60s - early ‘70s, teachers used to roam through the cafeteria and make us stand in the corner if we ate our sack lunch cookies before we ate our sandwiches.

We were always careful to watch over our shoulders if we ate out of order.

[gov_bean_ counter]

...but cheese in a can is a must.

[PAR35]

four pieces of ham

That's not halal. Next thing you know, he'll be giving her a pet dog.

[momtothree]

Request Declined. For some reason, I am so amused at how those two little words can say so much!