Posted on 04/11/2011 11:18:37 AM PDT by mandaladon
Who would have ever thought that the youth would revolt over bringing their own lunches to school? But while young communists march against austerity in Britain, young people at one Chicago school are fighting their administrators for the opportunity to pack their own meals. All because the school wants to promote healthy choices.
“Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?” the Chicago Tribune recently observed seventh-grader Fernando Dominguez shouting to his lunch mates in Spanish and English at Little Village Academy. It‘s a public school on Chicago’s West Side.
As numerous hands reached for the ceiling, Dominguez led a chant: “We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch!”
At the school, students are only allowed to bring their own lunch if they have a medical excuse. Why? You guessed it: the school wants to protect children from food that’s unhealthy.
“Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,”Principal Elsa Carmona told the Tribune. “It’s about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It’s milk versus a Coke. But with allergies and any medical issue, of course, we would make an exception.” Carmona said she instituted the policy six years ago when she got tired of seeing kids bringing chips and soda. According to her, it’s a common practice in Chicago. And according to a district spokesperson, that’s okay.
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All in all you’re just another brick in the wall...
You can’t have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat!
Illegal aliens are NOT skinny - check out any Walmart.
Re: “Illegal aliens are NOT skinny - check out any Walmart.”
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That’s for sure. Here in L.A. my teacher friends report from the vast barrios that little Pedro and Maria are NOT thin — rather, they tend to be quite tubby indeed!
The poor taxpayers foot the bill for free BREAKFAST and LUNCH for the illegals and others deemed ‘poor,’ who merely pick at or toss the food into the trash — and then their ‘guardians’ (many in gang gear) pick them up and take them to the fast food joints across the streets from the schools at 3 p.m.
Cut those programs out — shut down the ‘entitlements’ — WE are broke!
Reminds me of when I was a little kid and they tried to force me to eat the ginger-ale Jello at lunch. Maybe it had pears in it, I don’t recall. I do remember resisting and had to get my folks involved. Not sure if I puked on anyone’s shoes, but I recall gagging a lot. That was a private school so we at least had recourse.
I hate freaking Jello to this day. It is useful for ballistic testing if mixed strong enough ...
I am very sorry for your loss, USMCPOP.
I have wondered if MK Ultra was just a dose finding operation.
“I went all 12 years to Catholic schools...”
I did 11 out of 12. I narrowly survived being hit on the head with a biology book by a Christian Brother. Wasn’t paying attention one day, LOL.
And these are the same people who scream about their rights to have control over their own bodies; yet, they want to take away the rights of parents (and the students) to determine what goes into their children’s bodies while at school. If you looked at Chicago paper’s photo of this, they were serving a pile of unrecognizable goo and calling it an enchilada. The kid in the photo had his face covered and not one kid at the table had eaten the entrée.
A more important point here, however, is the lack of respect some educators have for parents. If they don’t trust them to pack a lunch, they are certainly not letting parents having any input into their children’s education.
Can anyone say “homeschooling”?
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