Liberals are so incompetent and stupid they grapple with making lunch for kids - something that went without a hitch for decades and decades.
They use any excuse to rationalize gov't control.
Onemore more attempt of socialism trying to hide their taxing policies.
No problemo. Tommy styro and his other half will ensure they get fresh veggies. Or something.
It is disappointing that only 40% opt out. The opt out number should be higher than 90%.
We pack lunch for our children because we are their parents. And because we want to feed them healthy foods we know they will eat. Unlike the millions of supposedly healthy “free” Michelle Obama lunches that get thrown out. ( she had a good idea about making government K- ration lunches healthier but government cannot possibly know what YOUR children will and won’t eat)
What a bizarre take on the subject!
As an individual family decision, packing lunches might seem like the best option, especially for children with special dietary needs. But when millions of families do so, their actions reduce the political will and financial resources necessary to make public school lunches better for everyone.
Saw off!
All for the ‘greater good’.
Socialism on full display!
In the county where I used to live, the public schools served lunch. It was assumed that, because many students were People of Color and in the lower economic bracket, that the parents were incapable of providing lunch for their children. This, of course, is an assumption based upon the racism of lowered expectations, and as a result, many children were partaking of the free lunch AND bringing in food.
Then the “Powers That Be” mused upon the idea that children were not eating breakfast at home (again due to racism) and so they initiated a free breakfast program at the start of the day. Children being what they are, they gobbled up the school breakfast even though they had already eaten at home.
Then the Social Engineers, thinking that the only place these poor children could be fed three squares a day, initiated an after-school dinner program, which, of course, was free, and enjoyed by the children before they went home for more supper.
The following year the School Department had a huge public meeting concerning “The Childhood Obesity Crisis”.
True Story.
Plus, we do t want government welfare meals !!! Return our tax money- lower the tax rates and give food only only only to the genuinely needy only - about one twentieth of all the meals that are bri g fished out they serve govt meals to kids living in four million dollar houses, for Heaven’s sakes!!
This is hysterical.
This is the Left’s response to failure. They want to shame you into sacrificing your child’s well being and your concern over his/her welfare. You need to work towards state control whether it’s good for your family or not.
Their 1st response is not to improve the offerings so that your kids will want to eat lunch from school and that you as a parent think that will be an appealing, nutritious option. It’s not to concentrate on the children that need lunch support and redeploy resources where they are needed. It’s to bully you into ceding control to the bureaucrats so that they can wield their power as they see fit.
One of the mental images I have enjoyed recently is President Trump as Toto, tearing down the curtain so that the petty tyrants hidden behind the curtain are in plain view so that all can know them and act accordingly. How they writhe when exposed to the light!
I pack my kids lunches because I am told the lunch provided at school is disgusting.
Sadly, this is why I feel Fed.gov needs bankruptcy and America needs a huge financial reset. There is no way to fix it otherwise.
NYT instead of the Onion? I initially thought so.
We should, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, be paying for the school lunches (plus breakfasts, in many cases, and “to-go” snacks for others)of any but the NEEDIEST students. And for those students, their family’s food stamp allotment should be reduced accordingly, to reflect that the kids are already getting 2-3 free meals on most weekdays.
JMHO
The Left knows that taking over the populace begins in K-12 nanny state indoctrination. They want to care for the children from cradle to grave and make them require big government to live.
How dare you love, care, and feed your own children! That is the states job, comrade!
Leftists cannot and will not ever be satiated. There is injustice to be found everywhere, including packing your children’s lunch.
“As an individual family decision, packing lunches might seem like the best option, especially for children with special dietary needs. But when millions of families do so, their actions reduce the political will and financial resources necessary to make public school lunches better for everyone.”
And like everything liberals touch, Moochelle Obama’s program resulted in more kids going hungry, less appetizing meals and more logistics problems with supply chain and vendors.
This guy has no idea h ow much school lunch food gets tossed by the kids each day because it’s so awful.
Parents pack their kids school lunches because they eat light years better than the free lunch kids and they can even get more.
When my son went to public high school, he took his own lunch because the school lunch was so inadequate for growing teen boys that the kids who were buying would often buy two and even then the lunch people complained and they weren’t full.
Some of his classmates actually offered to pay him to make their lunch every day.
I checked out the comments section and most people think this is a ridiculous article.
I started making my own school lunch at about age 10-11. I didn’t like what my mother provided so I had free reign of the pantries or could spend my allowance on cafeteria food. A peanut butter sandwich (no jelly!) and a banana kept me sustained for years. Allowance and babysitting money paid for chocolate milk on chocolate milk days and the occasional pizza on pizza days.
What would this bureaucrat say to a child making their own lunch? Is this a case for the huge manatee?