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Chicago school bans some lunches brought from home
Chicago Tribune ^
| 4/11/2011
| Monica Eng and Joel Hood,
Posted on 04/11/2011 10:09:40 AM PDT by CharlesThe Hammer
To encourage healthful eating, Chicago school doesn't allow kids to bring lunches or certain snacks from home — and some parents, and many students, aren't fans of the policy.
Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school.
"Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?" the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish and English.
Dozens of hands flew in the air and fellow students shouted along: "We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch!"
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chartwellsthompson; chicago; fascism; fernandodominguez; foodnazis; foodpolice; nannystate; softtyranny
Please pass the salt...oh wait that's illegal...please pass the butter...oh wait...well, we'll just have to brown bag it then...huh? NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!
To: CharlesThe Hammer
May I have some more, sir?...............
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posted on
04/11/2011 10:11:27 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(I've posted a total of 1,723 threads and 64,113 replies, as of 04-06-2011)
To: CharlesThe Hammer
Click The Pic
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posted on
04/11/2011 10:13:59 AM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FreeRepublic. Now, More Than Ever.)
To: CharlesThe Hammer
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posted on
04/11/2011 10:20:05 AM PDT
by
Hoodat
(Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
To: CharlesThe Hammer
The Gov't is now force-feeding kids and making adults sort their garbage.
1984 is here.
To: CharlesThe Hammer
This is not about getting kids to eat healthy, since the slop they serve in CPS cafeterias is overladen with protein, fat, and salt. It’s designed to help compensate for the ghetto kids whose parents’ malnourish them.
I’m sure the real reason for the ban is that CPS gets federal subsidies based on the number of lunches they serve.
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posted on
04/11/2011 10:31:46 AM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: CharlesThe Hammer
They'd have to rip the peanut butter (made with Jif Creamy style) and jam (Smuckers strawberry) sandwich from my cold, dead hands.
Sad thing is they would actualy do it... at least they'd resort to a few stun shots from a Tazer.
Damn it... give me back my sandwich!
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posted on
04/11/2011 10:32:11 AM PDT
by
Trajan88
(www.bullittclub.com)
To: CharlesThe Hammer
This sounds like the perfect chance for the kids to do some guerrilla journalism. Have a lot of kids bring their lunches to school one day with other kids filming it. Either the kids will get to keep their lunches, or the teachers will forcibly confiscate them which would make a great video on youtube.
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posted on
04/11/2011 10:41:56 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Tea Party extremism is a badge of honor.)
To: CharlesThe Hammer
(Cross-posted from FB)
Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school.
"Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?" the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish and English.
Dozens of hands flew in the air and fellow students shouted along: "We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch!"
Fernando waved his hand over the crowd and asked a visiting reporter: "Do you see the situation?"
The nanny-state obsession with "healthy" food is now inciting open rebellion in our schools. When adults fail to lead, the youth must lead themselves.
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posted on
04/11/2011 10:43:20 AM PDT
by
arderkrag
(Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)
To: CharlesThe Hammer
“The federal government pays the district for each free or reduced-price lunch taken...”
There you have it.
To: Boogieman
Yup, follow the money. Now every kid has to BUY lunch. Doesn’t matter who is paying, the school collects $$$ from every kid’s meal.
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posted on
04/11/2011 10:49:15 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Great children's books - http://www.UsborneBooksGA.com)
To: CharlesThe Hammer
So now the yoots can develop the skills selling blackmarket twinkies that will benefit them later when they move on to crack.
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posted on
04/11/2011 10:51:49 AM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: CharlesThe Hammer
Carmona said she created the policy six years ago after watching students bring "bottles of soda and flaming hot chips" on field trips for their lunch. field trip lunches were always the best--extra special... Mom would pack a Hostess cupcake, chips, Snack Pack pudding and fruit punch to go along with my sandwich...
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posted on
04/11/2011 10:58:51 AM PDT
by
latina4dubya
( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
To: Boogieman
I’m sure the real reason for the ban is that CPS gets federal subsidies based on the number of lunches they serve. Ding Ding. We have a winner with the correct answer.
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posted on
04/11/2011 11:05:28 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
To: latina4dubya
“field trip lunches were always the best—extra special... Mom would pack a Hostess cupcake, chips, Snack Pack pudding and fruit punch to go along with my sandwich... “
Triple decker PBJ’s with chunky PB and a big bag of Wise onion garlic potato chips for me. If I cleaned my room I also got a Ring Ding.
Oh, and in grades 1-12 I never saw a kid with a peanut allergy.
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posted on
04/11/2011 11:09:54 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The MSM is the greatest threat to America.)
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