I know things are bad, but seriously, you need to provide a citation for this or I'm calling BS.
Yep, it’s true in terms of banning school lunches from home
Google Little Village Academy in Chicago.
Alternatives to outright banning do exist. Claremont Academy Elementary School, also in Chicago, allows packed lunches but confiscates, or takes away, any excessively salty or sugary foods. In Alabama, Hartselle Junior High has prohibited students from bringing drinks from home.
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3756047
Here, it took me 15 seconds to find such an article.
State Inspectors Searching Children’s Lunch Boxes: “This Isn’t China, Is It?"
“Brown bag lunches are a thing of the past for the school’s parents and students. Carmona has banned them from campus.
Chicago Public Schools permits principals to decide how to handle home-packed lunches, reports the Los Angeles Times. While some merely confiscate sugary and salty snacks, Little Village Academy has stopped allowing them altogether.
Instead, children without medical exceptions are required to eat a school lunch whether they like it or not.”
https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2011/04/chicago-public-school-bans-bag-lunches.html
Pockets rule.
Articles about schools who take kids home made food away are all over Free Republic and the internet. You're calling BS? LOL
I certainly hope you feel as chastened as you should.
Calling someone a liar when they are making a statement of fact is frowned upon here.
This isn’t Democratic Underground. Most folks here actually KNOW what they are talking about.
At one of my grandkid’s public school, the kids are not allowed to bring anything with sugar in it. Fresh fruit or snack crackers, but nothing with sugar or peanuts. The little guy doesn’t know any different, so he doesn’t complain, but I hate that kind of authoritarian crap.