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After six years of banning home-made lunches, what are the results in Chicago?
Radio Vice Online ^ | April 11, 2011 | Steve McGough

Posted on 04/11/2011 9:22:26 AM PDT by Steve495

Even though the article states kids have been forced to eat the lunches provided by the government for six years, there is no information provided about the health and wellness of the kids.

Where are the results from the past six years? How is the obesity rate? How about the diabetes rate?

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TOPICS: Education; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: chicago; control; lunch
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1 posted on 04/11/2011 9:22:32 AM PDT by Steve495
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To: Steve495

Progressive rule #1 when thihgs go bad hide data,see media.


2 posted on 04/11/2011 9:25:40 AM PDT by Vaduz
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Not for nothing but this is probably why we have fat kids...I'll bet they would eat half the amount if they had to make or bring their own.

Lunch is a break from boring teachers for kids...eating is not their biggest care..

3 posted on 04/11/2011 9:28:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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ARE YOU BLANKING KIDDING ME?! YOU CANNOT PACK A LUNCH FOR YOU CHILD IN CHICAGO SCHOOLS?


4 posted on 04/11/2011 9:28:33 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Steve495
Sales of bread and lunch meat are way down.
5 posted on 04/11/2011 9:28:53 AM PDT by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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To: Steve495
No longer are children with nothing but a Ding-Dong and a can of Coke in their lunchboxes forced to watch other children savor the nice, nutritious, home-made meals which their parents prepared for them.

The school administrators have achieved their goal: Equality of results.

Regards,

6 posted on 04/11/2011 9:31:08 AM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: Steve495

Kid doesn't eat the vile state provided lunch. Comes home hungry and scarfs all the chips and sodas until he's full. As usual, the liberal prescription results in the opposite of it's intended effect.

7 posted on 04/11/2011 9:32:53 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: RobRoy
Glad you posted this as I would have been embarrassed to be the first to admit that I had no idea that Chicago had made it illegal to brown-bag it to school.

I wonder if the real reason was so as not to shame kids who couldn't take the sort of lunch I used to take to school: two huge roast beef sandwiches and a can of orange soda. (This was long before there were soda machines in school. I froze the soda, and knew how to thaw it in my locker so that it was ready to drink whenever I was scheduled to have lunch. No chips and no fries either!)

ML/NJ

8 posted on 04/11/2011 9:35:05 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Steve495
Even though the article states kids have been forced to eat the lunches provided by the government for six years, there is no information provided about the health and wellness of the kids.

That's because there's no way for them to collect the data.

Also, a lot of kids just throw the lunch away because it so totally sucks. It may be good for them to miss a meal once in a while and it may be good to miss some school lunches considering what has been demonstrated about its quality, but if, in a world where everyone brought his lunch from home, there were that many kids failing to bring lunches from home, there would be a bunch of CPS bureaucrats leading a movement to help these poor underprivileged children. When the CPS bureaucrats are causing the kids to go without eating because they're attempting to feed them crap, not a peep is heard.
9 posted on 04/11/2011 9:35:07 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: RobRoy
ARE YOU BLANKING KIDDING ME?! YOU CANNOT PACK A LUNCH FOR YOU CHILD IN CHICAGO SCHOOLS?

In some, not all of them.
10 posted on 04/11/2011 9:36:34 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Steve495

It’s not about children’s health, that’s just a tool of totalatarianism. It’s about Government power over your kids, and the circumvention of Parental Rights. It takes a village; therefore the children belong to the village not the parents.


11 posted on 04/11/2011 9:37:35 AM PDT by JohnKinAK
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To: ml/nj
Glad you posted this as I would have been embarrassed to be the first to admit that I had no idea that Chicago had made it illegal to brown-bag it to school.

Some, not all.
12 posted on 04/11/2011 9:37:51 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Steve495

Chicago is a sewer that deserves what it gets.

That being said we who care don’t deserve the rat plucked from the sewers of Chicago to sit in our Oval Office that hasn’t been so degraded since Billy Goat masturbated in its washroom sink.


13 posted on 04/11/2011 9:49:29 AM PDT by IbJensen (Grab your pitchforks!)
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Chicago is a sewer that deserves what it gets.

That being said we who care don’t deserve the rat plucked from the sewers of Chicago to sit in our Oval Office that hasn’t been so degraded since Billy Goat masturbated in its washroom sink.


14 posted on 04/11/2011 9:51:10 AM PDT by IbJensen (Grab your pitchforks!)
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Sounded so good I think I’ll post it again!


15 posted on 04/11/2011 9:51:57 AM PDT by IbJensen (Grab your pitchforks!)
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To: Steve495

Long ago my mother made home made cupcakes and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and gave us a nickle for milk. A lot of kids offered trade for my cupcakes. LOL Those were the days my friend....


16 posted on 04/11/2011 9:52:28 AM PDT by just me (Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. (John Adams)
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To: aruanan; RobRoy

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-school-lunch-restrictions-041120110410,0,4567867.story


17 posted on 04/11/2011 9:55:58 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My dream thread: Mormon cop shoots Catholic Freeper's Pit Bull and takes his Macbook Pro.)
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-school-lunch-restrictions-041120110410,0,4567867.story

“Any school that bans homemade lunches also puts more money in the pockets of the district’s food provider, Chartwells-Thompson. The federal government pays the district for each free or reduced-price lunch taken, and the caterer receives a set fee from the district per lunch.”


18 posted on 04/11/2011 9:59:59 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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P.S.

Remember. Chicago is mafia country.


19 posted on 04/11/2011 10:02:34 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: JohnKinAK
Right on the money. To the heart. From the article itself, comes this telling quote:

"...Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their own unhealthful food choices..."

We see this attitude at every level of government, city, state and federal.

IT HAS TO STOP.

20 posted on 04/11/2011 10:08:57 AM PDT by rlmorel (Capitalism is the Goose that lays The Golden Egg.)
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