Posted on 10/26/2013 9:28:49 PM PDT by Nachum
I cannot tell you how hyped up I am at this note my friend Linda received today from her child’s school.
Her child has to have DOCTORS NOTE to send a packed lunch to school.
And does anyone notice the irony in the “health coordinator” and enforcement of no bagged lunches?
(pic used w/ permission from linda)
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How about you better run.
Dear Soul Sucking Bureaucrat:
For reason that I cannot disclose to you because of HIPAA privacy laws little Johnny must eat a lunch prepared specially for him by those that really care about his welfare.
Professionally Yours:
NAME WITHHELD FOR PRIVACY REASONS
Johnny’s Doctor
possibly
It is indeed RARE that I see a kid chowing down on a homemade lunch.
When I was a kid in school, I always had a lunch from home, in my lunchbox.
Just another piece of parenting foisted off onto the school system.
Nothing but goose stepping to the white house libtard. This country is done as a world leader, done as a free society. The trash that runs this country is going to destroy this great nation.
2 words: Pound Sand.
The Agriculture Department pays about $1 billion a year for commodities like fresh apples and sweet potatoes, chickens and turkeys. Schools get the food free; some cook it on site, but more and more pay processors to turn these healthy ingredients into fried chicken nuggets, fruit pastries, pizza and the like. Some $445 million worth of commodities are sent for processing each year, a nearly 50 percent increase since 2006.
The Agriculture Department doesn’t track spending to process the food, but school authorities do. The Michigan Department of Education, for example, gets free raw chicken worth $11.40 a case and sends it for processing into nuggets at $33.45 a case. The schools in San Bernardino, Calif., spend $14.75 to make French fries out of $5.95 worth of potatoes.
The money is ill spent. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has warned that sending food to be processed often means lower nutritional value and noted that “many schools continue to exceed the standards for fat, saturated fat and sodium.” A 2008 study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that by the time many healthier commodities reach students, “they have about the same nutritional value as junk foods.”
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Why is this allowed to happen? Part of it is that school authorities don’t want the trouble of overseeing real kitchens. Part of it is that the management companies are saving money by not having to pay skilled kitchen workers.
In addition, the management companies have a cozy relationship with food processers, which routinely pay the companies rebates (typically around 14 percent) in return for contracts. The rebates have generally been kept secret from schools, which are charged the full price.
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My own feeling is that there is a little bit more to it than that. There is an impulse on the left toward forcing equality. So, if one child comes to school with a better lunch than the next child the egalitarian impulse of the leftist school administrators is offended.
I am also going to advance a theory that many will find far-fetched:
Nathan Bedford's first Maxim of American politics: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.
If we have whole sections in our inner cities poor and ignorant, especially of nutrition to which much of the population is no doubt indifferent, we have a real felt need to step in and do what ignorant, single mothers are unwilling or incapable of doing, that is, properly feed their own kids. So we have the move for school lunches and now for school breakfasts.
If you look at the world demographically the way the first lady looks at the world, we see this kind of thinking. In the world of the ghetto the child's parents are in fact too often irresponsible so the impulse to have the government step in to correct the situation on behalf of innocent and powerless children is irresistible to leftists. Anyone who doesn't agree is a heartless hater of children and no doubt a racist.
So we have the politics for all of America even wealthy suburban America racing to the bottom, just as our culture seems to be racing to the bottom of issues such as bastardy rates, because the government must insist that one size fits all.
This is another veiled and empty attempt by government to enforce its will in a place where they have no LEGAL authority.
This letter written by the school is blaming the problem on the Government who most certainly sent the school some kind of an edict, but I would bet my paycheck that it was about reducing the schools Federal Lunch program money for all the students that ‘bring lunches’. It most likely didn’t even say it was prohibited - they CANNOT prohibit that.
This is the SCHOOL capriciously enforcing a rule they likely have no purview over either. They just want the money.
Get to the crux of the problem, call the school, fight them, and make them SHOW you the actual letter that says you CANNOT give your child a homemade lunch. Stand up and fight.
If this isn’t the right time for a GFY berth, I don’t know when is?!
This mom is worried about what government schools force into her child’s BODY??
So we have the politics for all of America even wealthy suburban America racing to the bottom, just as our culture seems to be racing to the bottom of issues such as bastardy rates, because the government must insist that one size fits all.
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Well said, as usual.
My kids are all grown and gone but were I to still have a child in school I would send them with a lunch and dare anybody to steal it from them including staff. They won’t like my response.
Just write a letter and sign it Epstein’s Doctor.
The school selling nachos and ice cream during PE is nuts but then segregating those kids who don’t buy the treats is mind boggling.
When lil miss was in 2nd grade, the creature teacher would only allow birthday cake during the period the gifted kids went to their enrichment class once a week. Evil monster wouldn’t let those kids have a piece of cake when they returned to the class. Other than a few snakes, we have a pretty good public school but homeschool is looking more and more like an option for the next generation.
Not surprising that a GOVERNMENT employee would order that a non-GOVERNMENT employees do what he says. It shows his power over the populace and even sputters out the “Federal” word for cred since he’s part of it. Little people making big people (their supposed customers) jump whenever they demand. Sick !
Mine got sick in K from school lunches, too. I don’t know if it was the TVP or food handlers’ germs. They took their lunches up through middle school.
Schools get a stipend for every meal they feed your kids.
If your kid takes their own lunch, the school loses out on some cash.
What the parents have lost along the way isn’t power but the knowlege that they do hold all the power. Before moving into a new home, very few ever bother to check out the school little Johnny will be attending. If the school is pushing this bs, then buy that new house in another area. If the school starts sending out these ridiculous letters, then have a one on one with the teacher and principal. If they try blaming the policy on the superentendant, then camp out in his office until you get the answer you want. Remind everyone along the way that you pay their salaries so they work for YOU. Be that parent the school hates to see. If that doesn’t work then gather a group of like-minded parents and have your say in the next schoolboard meeting. If that fails, then write to the editor and run for school board.
A few well placed phone calls around the neighborhood also works. If your school suddenly won’t let the kids wear mums the day of homecoming, call the local florists and remind them they will lose money if no one buys their $60 (!) corsages. Call the city council - the older members who didn’t have such stuff shirted rules back in their day. Call a few of the big football supporters who are who’s who in town. I guarantee by 8:00 the next morning the halls will be filled with 4’ ribbons and glitter. One day of fun isn’t going to mess the school up on the state test rankings.
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