Posted on 04/13/2011 6:57:37 AM PDT by Rhonda Robinson
Little Village Academy, by virtue of the “authority” vested in them by Chicago Public Schools (CPS), is no longer allowing students to bring sack lunches from home. School officials have lost all faith in parents‘ ability and/or willingness to provide “better” nutrition for their children than schools can, so they’ve taken over kids’ nutrition and squashed the role of the parent. In Chicago schools, kids can say goodbye to Mom’s peanut butter sandwiches and hello to whatever school officials decide they should eat…all based on the whims of the principal.
Conservatives are fond of the term “nanny state” to describe government overreaches, but forbidding parent-packed lunches goes far beyond what most people would refer to as a “nanny state.” CPS has soared headlong into full-fledged “Daddy Government” by claiming that principals have authority to push totalitarian nutritional policy onto families. Providing options for parents and their kids is one thing, but for a school to outright forbid lunches lovingly prepared by a responsible parent is a complete rejection of the centuries-old standard that the family is the basic unity of society and that parents have primary authority over their children. So it is with the Left’s utopian fantasies about the “ever-benevolent” and “all-knowing”government. To the leftist, government always knows better than individuals and families do…even on something as basic as what we eat.
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Soviet Chicago.
Don’t the kids in Chicago schools already get free lunches..Just the ones that the parents work and support the family they have to brown bag it or buy their own..
Okay, what about kosher or halal lunches? Do they provide those, too? Kinda hard to do either without a separate kitchen and staff..............
What makes people think that parents have the right to feed their own children? Where do you all think we are? America?
It’s Chicago — follow the money. Someone’s getting their palms greased.
Who has the contract to provide the food to the schools? There's your answer.
We don’t need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.
We don’t need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.
“Wrong, Do it again!”
“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?”
“You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!”
Follow the money. There are kickbacks flowing from the food service vendors to the school administrators. Without a doubt.
I don’t think this is really about food, it is about money. When my kids were in school the officials went on a campaign to get all the students on reduced or free lunches because the school recieved more money for those students than they did for those that paid for their lunches. The goal was to get every student in the program and the school would get a nice big check from Uncle Sugar.
I was a rebel, I refused to even fill out the forms because I was sure I could pay for my children’s lunches and didn’t want them on the program whether we qualified or not. Nearly everyone qualifies for at least reduced prices. It was a constant battle- the school would promise students an ice cream party if all the parents filled out the forms- I pitched a fit about that and put a stop to it. One school official actually told me I was hurting the school- so there must be some additional money involved.
At one point the school tried to force all the students to scan their cafeteria cards for free breakfast even if they didn’t eat it, and even if the parents paid for their card. The breakfast program was seperate from the lunch program and at the time it was for everyone and you didn’t need to qualify. My kids ate breakfast at home and I pointed out to the school officials that they were using the students to scam the system and my children would not be part of it.
It really was a constant battle, and I was flailing at windmills- the scam has been going on a good while and no one is willing to give up the money.
The students should go on strike or, umm, sick leave. And visit Wisconsin to protest.
The time has come to close the public schools.
Time for a student strike!
Don’t eat a dam thing thing they set out for lunch.
Better yet, play hookie, until your voice is heard.
So a lousy PBJ made by a hardworking dad and mom will be taken from little Johnny so he’ll be forced to eat what overweight Mooch-elle has dictated: grass, leaves, tree bark, and barn sweepings. We’ve come a long way.
This is more than a small, local issue. At the heart of this action is one of the root causes of the financial crisis plaguing America at all levels of government.
Once government money becomes available, every issue is perverted into a marketing opportunity. Government money perverts the free market system and has brought capitalism to its knees.
Government power is used to channel taxpayer money to a business, organization, or cause, then some of that money always manages to find its way back to politicians in the form of financial contributions, votes, sweetheart deals or jobs for family and friends.
Whenever government power is used to force us to buy a product or service, lurking in the background you will find lobbyists reperesenting those who will profit from the action.
That is how the teachers unions operate. That is how SEIU operates. That is why we end up spending hundreds of millions on a Rube Goldberg “virtual fence” on the Mexico border, that is why the government will spend $200 million to remake childrens TV shows to air in Pakistan, and that is why we end up repairing Mexican trucks on the taxpayers back.
In all of these cases, some well connected group or company will profit off the taxpayer.
This program, to ONLY allow scholl provided meals , has been going on for over a year.
Isn’t it interesting that no parents complained? Wonder why?
Could it be because they like it that they don’t have to worry about lunch which gives them even more in their food stamp account. double dipping.
The school gets $ 2.30 per student and then cuts a deal with a caterer for less.
Eveyone wins EXCEPT the taxpayer
Real reason: “Privileged” kids were bringing in lunches while poor kids had to settle for welfare lunches at school. Soon kids were noticing which kids got welfare lunches. The libs want all the kids to get welfare lunches so they can be the same.
Mom's unhealthy packed lunches are probably more of the tuna-fish, egg-salad, deli, or chicken-salad variety (appropriately packed with an ice-pack). The PB or PB&J sandwiches I'll venture to say are packed mainly by the kids themselves.
Just another reason to homeschool. Get your kids out of the collective now—while you’re allowed to.
Little Village is in the “Pilsen” neighborhood (named after a local brewery) area on the near southwest side of Chicago. It was settled first by Czechs and much later today is the largest Mexican American settlemet in Chicago. It’s store fronts along 18th stree from Halstead to Ashland as well as 26th street going furthur west to Pulaski are filled with latino shops and services.
The school was built on property which once contained a large super market which comlapsed while being reconstructed. The students attending this school are from this area .
I’’ll bnet if Marco Rubio went there to speak (despite he’s Cuban American) there would be SRO.
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