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School Backs Away from Food Confiscation Policy (Food Nazis!)
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 11/9/04 | Anon

Posted on 11/09/2004 11:55:30 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

Steven Walley is seething over the "food police" at his son's school.

A letter from the Freedom Elementary School said the county's Health Services Agency plans to educate students and families about healthy eating habits and there was a list of acceptable foods.

It also warned: "We will take away from students any non-nutritious foods such as hot Cheetos or chips, sugary snacks, soda, etc."

Walley couldn't believe it. "The food police," he said, had gone too far.

"There's no law on the books that would allow this," Walley said. "They're saying if I send my kid to school with chips or a Hostess pie for lunch, they're gonna take it away from him. What gives them the right?"

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KEYWORDS: commiepigshurtkids; donutwatch; education; educationnews; foodnazis; govwatch; health; nannystate; students
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To: dangus
>>For the record, when I was in grade school, they banned soda and candy. And there was quite a black market, lemme tellya.<<

When I was a kid I went with my parents to the farmers market every weekend and stopped in the candy dealers there. I made a killing buying wholesale candy and selling it out of my backpack when they banned it at our school. Parents thought it was funny until I was caught, then the school came down hard on them. I still remember my dad getting in the principles face when he started blaming him for lack of discipline in our home. (Dad was a firm believer in spare the rod spoil the child but couldn't find fault in me making money selling chocolate to fat kids at a premium)
41 posted on 11/09/2004 12:42:53 PM PST by Abathar
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

OK, let's do a quick re-cap...In CA, it is perfectly acceptable to put a scalpel in the back of his skull and suck out it's brains, to prevent him from being born alive..but once he is born, it is not OK to put junk food in him...just want to make sure I have all my facts straight before I call these people absolute a'holes.


42 posted on 11/09/2004 12:43:21 PM PST by SAMS
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To: Gabz

Probably. If the schools had one scintilla of intelligence though, they'd know that many of those 'juice' box drinks have a bit too much sugar as well.


43 posted on 11/09/2004 12:43:49 PM PST by Bella_Bru (Proud member of La Kosher Nostra and the IZC)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"School Backs Away from Food Confiscation Policy"

This is NOT a victory.

Firing the school officials involved and prohibiting them from ever holding any position within any school system again, now that would be a victory. Any thing less and they will have only learned to be more covert in promoting their fascism.

--Boot Hill

44 posted on 11/09/2004 12:44:53 PM PST by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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To: lotusblos

I bet these hypocrites also have the usual candy drives for extra money too. Send little Johnny out and if he sells $100 worth of the stuff he gets a prize, just don't eat the stuff here.


45 posted on 11/09/2004 12:48:02 PM PST by Abathar
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Why do I get this vision of teachers chowing down on Cheetos and Snickers bars in the teacher's lounge?


46 posted on 11/09/2004 12:51:08 PM PST by CharacterCounts
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To: truecons

LOLOL!


47 posted on 11/09/2004 12:51:33 PM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: CharacterCounts

A result of the munchies from that legalized marijuana.


48 posted on 11/09/2004 12:57:28 PM PST by JanetteS (My heart is as light as a song!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Your child is government property.

Every educrat is a thug.


49 posted on 11/09/2004 1:00:48 PM PST by stinkerpot65
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To: ChocChipCookie
Yeah, they'll confiscate all the yummy snacks, and the teachers will divvy them up in the teacher's lounge after school.

LOL! I still can't understand how a teacher can keep a straight face while lecturing a kid about what to eat when shes standing there with a soda in her hand!

I see it all the time.

50 posted on 11/09/2004 1:03:49 PM PST by MamaTexan (I am your worst nightmare..... I am .....THE LUNCH LADY!!!)
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To: michaelbfree

HEY! TEACHER! Leave those kids alone! :)


51 posted on 11/09/2004 1:05:36 PM PST by TwoWolves (The only kind of control the liberals don't want is self control.)
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I'd kill for a corn dog right now.


52 posted on 11/09/2004 1:12:00 PM PST by vollmond (Head back to base for debriefing and cocktails.)
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To: truecons

The Elian Gonzales photo is a hilarious send-up (if the entire Elian assault weren't so horrible). I don't seem to recall the Fritos bag in the original photo, though.


53 posted on 11/09/2004 2:25:56 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: truecons

LOL! You beat me to it!


54 posted on 11/09/2004 2:29:02 PM PST by Rebelbase (Indiscriminate reprisals strengthen the terrorists. Targeted ones weaken them. Aim is everything.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I guess I'm dating myself, but in my era schools didn't have vending machines of any kind and the school cafeteria sold tax-payer subsidized cartons of milk for 2 cents. The cafeteria sold such delicacies as Spanish Rice and "dessert" was, more often than not, a glob of green jello with whipped cream. When Mom packed my lunch, it was usually PB&J with a few chips. Things were sure simple then!


55 posted on 11/09/2004 2:30:37 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: catpuppy
16 percent of American children between the ages of 6 and 19 are obese

Turn off the computers and bring back Phys. Ed.

56 posted on 11/09/2004 2:37:34 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
When Mom packed my lunch, it was usually PB&J with a few chips

Can't bring peanut butter anymore. Someone may be allergic, doncha know.

57 posted on 11/09/2004 2:41:52 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I wonder if they would allow a child to eat Mexican food. These Kalifornia leftists probably support the whack-o Center for Science in the Public Interest, which is trying to get Mexican food banned.


58 posted on 11/09/2004 2:51:24 PM PST by JoeGar
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To: JoeGar

You know, that's right. No tortilla chips? Sue 'em!


59 posted on 11/09/2004 3:16:22 PM PST by valkyrieanne (card-carrying South Park Republican)
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To: So Cal Rocket
Hot Cheetos?

There's a variety of Cheetos labeled "Flamin' Hot" that has a red pepper layer on the outside.

Quite tasty.

60 posted on 11/09/2004 3:22:47 PM PST by jimt
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