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School meal is poor substitute for home-cooked involvement
The Seattle Times ^ | 1/11/07 | Bruce Ramsey

Posted on 01/11/2007 12:57:52 PM PST by goodnesswins

The social-service industry thinks otherwise. One of its principal lobbies, the Children's Alliance, paid a visit to The Seattle Times the other day to promote its proposals for the Legislature — a Legislature likely to be favorable. One of the group's proposals was that the state should pay for a free lunch to kids from families in the $26,000-to-$37,000 income bracket for a family of four. These kids have been offered a lunch that is reduced in price but not free.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: breakfast; education; lunch; schools
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The continued creeping of socialism through the education system
1 posted on 01/11/2007 12:57:54 PM PST by goodnesswins
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To: goodnesswins

We had outstanding lunches when I was in school because our mothers would volunteer to cook in the cafeteria. Of course, this made it difficult to eat what you wanted with your mother in control of the menu :(


2 posted on 01/11/2007 1:03:49 PM PST by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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To: goodnesswins

Makes you wonder when congress will mandate free breakfast and lunch for minimum wage workers.


3 posted on 01/11/2007 1:06:30 PM PST by politicalwit (Freedom doesn't mean a Free Pass.)
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To: goodnesswins

Food, wages, lifestyles are all replacing individual freedom as "rights."


4 posted on 01/11/2007 1:09:44 PM PST by Sax
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To: Tired of Taxes; Gabz

ping


5 posted on 01/11/2007 1:12:13 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: goodnesswins

I make my kids lunches now, at least 4 out of the 5 days of the week. They weren't eating the school lunches, and this way I can control what they are eating, and the portions. Plus I can make special things they like (like chicken quesadillas) and I know they are eating it.

And my 11 y.o. can share the Oreos with the girl he eats lunch with, lol.


6 posted on 01/11/2007 1:12:50 PM PST by eyespysomething
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To: goodnesswins

More

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1561077/posts
Animal Tagging and SCHOOL LUNCHES???


7 posted on 01/11/2007 1:13:18 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: goodnesswins
"School meal education is poor substitute for home education cooked involvement"
8 posted on 01/11/2007 1:14:05 PM PST by Niteranger68 (The United States is a safe haven for all cultures……except its own.)
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To: goodnesswins

The leftist government would gladly take over all the responsibilities of parenting kids, and indoctrinate them against traditional values and in favor of the "values" loved by the left.


9 posted on 01/11/2007 1:14:52 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: RacerF150

That is easy to say when the pupils are cherry-picked. But for the other 90% of the population things are not quite so rosy.


10 posted on 01/11/2007 1:15:47 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
That is easy to say when the pupils are cherry-picked. But for the other 90% of the population things are not quite so rosy.

Maybe those folks need to work a little harder in the interest of their children.

11 posted on 01/11/2007 1:18:55 PM PST by Niteranger68 (The United States is a safe haven for all cultures……except its own.)
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To: Calpernia

AAAACHHHHHH......there are WAY TOO many people with WAY TOO MUCH TIME on their hands (and government funds!)


12 posted on 01/11/2007 1:21:21 PM PST by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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To: Calpernia

AAAACHHHHHH......there are WAY TOO many people with WAY TOO MUCH TIME on their hands (and government funds!)


13 posted on 01/11/2007 1:21:22 PM PST by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

Who said the home education is "rosy"?


14 posted on 01/11/2007 1:21:29 PM PST by TruthConquers (Delenda est publius schola)
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To: TruthConquers

The view that home schooling is the answer to much is rosy in the extreme.


15 posted on 01/11/2007 1:28:43 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: goodnesswins

That was a worthy double post! Truth with emphasis!


16 posted on 01/11/2007 1:31:37 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
The view that home schooling is the answer to much is rosy in the extreme.

It might have helped that sentence.

17 posted on 01/11/2007 1:34:03 PM PST by RedQuill
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To: Calpernia
Good piece, thanks for the ping.

It is also one more example of government helping families by relieving them of their jobs.

I do not need the government to do my job.

Sometimes my daughter has breakfast at home, sometimes at school. The same with lunch. At this time of the year I like that she can get a hot lunch at school, but somedays she just prefers bringing a sandwich and whatever kind of goodies she can convince me or daddy to put in her lunch box!!!!

18 posted on 01/11/2007 1:41:34 PM PST by Gabz (If we weren't crazy, we'd just all go insane.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

I believe that the poster just meant that just as home cooked meals are better, home education is better. The 90% that you claim that is not true for ( assuming that figure is correct) is anecdotal.

People who homeschool choose to do so. I guess that is cherry picking to you, but not to those parents that make that choice. It can be an answer to those who wish to make that sacrifice. But that sacrifice is not "rosy". The outcome has a better chance for those who make it work.

It seems that, that choice is too rosy for you. So be it.
It may not be true for others.

Do you think that schools should be in the business of taking over the parenting of children by this policy of encroachment of parental duties? (i.e. school lunches?)


19 posted on 01/11/2007 1:42:27 PM PST by TruthConquers (Delenda est publius schola)
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To: RedQuill

The sentence is quite clear. Even a publicly schooled child could understand it.


20 posted on 01/11/2007 1:42:34 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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