You were lucky ! . . .
Posted on 05/27/2011 8:55:13 AM PDT by La Lydia
No matter how you slice it, the days of milk and cookies are long gone as schools aim to provide students with healthy fruits and vegetables as snacks. But raw onions? That's what several classes of students at Southeast DC's Turner Elementary were fed Tuesday, instead of the zucchini slices the school's food provider, Chartwells, said it would serve as part of a federal initiative to provide healthy food to young learners. When Trevor Rill picked up the snack bags from the cafeteria for his third-grade class, he found bundles of raw scallions... "I asked the cafeteria workers, 'Are you serious?' and they said, 'This is what they sent us,'" said Rill, one of nine City Year corps members assigned to Turner....
Turner Elementary is one of the District's 53 public elementary schools participating in the federal Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program. Under the 2008 farm bill, the District received $1.2 million this school year to serve students a vegetable or piece of fruit outside of breakfast and lunch hours. The program is likely to expand to more schools next year as funding increases to $1.7 million.
...Chartwells' executive director and dietician did not return calls from seeking comment.
... Chartwells officials confirmed that the scallions were intended as a lunch ingredient, but because of a mix-up, were packaged as the day's snack....
D.C. Public Schools also acknowledged the incident, saying "school administration took quick action" and that "ultimately students were served apples." As for Chartwells, DCPS "is confident that this was an isolated event," spokeswoman Safiya Simmons said.,,,
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Wonder if they let the kids bring in a snack from home??
“potatoe”
LOL! Good post.
Didn’t a restaurant chain go out of business because of contaminated raw scallions from Mexico?
What do you put on the onion sandwiches?
;)
May seem strange these days but scallions or green onions was a frequent snack for me as child.
But maybe I was an odd child. I liked dark chocolate, black licorice, spicy food and coffee as kid as well.
You were lucky ! . . .
mayo and salt and pepper...It was a great snack...
Cardboard box? LUXURY!
“I liked dark chocolate, black licorice,”
That makes you an odd person not just an odd child. Dark chocolate is not of God!!! ;)
Take a look at the garbage cans, you will see what kids refuse to eat. Some schools have made it illegal to bring sack lunches, trying to force kids to eat the stuff, which may be the only way they will eat it, guess if you get hungry enough you will eat anything.
Try a quarter inch slice of a fresh Texas Sweet Onion, on good wheat bread and slathered with Miracle Whip, then add a generous amount of black pepper.
Better than a burger.
I prefer raw garlic. If my wife gets to be President someday, I will force it on the populis.
Then I was an odd child, too, excepting the onions, which I am sure I would have munched had they been offered.
That looks like a gut bomb of the first order.
Love onions, cut off a good slice and little salt and I am all set.
The Texas 1015 Sweet Onions are OK, but not nearly as ood as Walla Wala Sweets.
I don’t have anything against onions. But if I were providing a snack to elementary school students, it would be the favorite snack that I was offered when I arrived home from school, which was apple slices frosted with peanut butter. Love them to this day.
You have all opened new horizons for me! (Except maybe freedomlover heh heh heh.) Thanks!
In my lifetime, I have seen schools go from providing a cheap lunch for students to buy, with a relatively small percentage of students (even in a fairly poor town) receiving “free or reduced” lunches... to today where the schools are feeding a large percentage of students a free lunch, free breakfast, a snack or two each day in-between, and even seeing food sent home with students (though I realize this latter is often supplied by a 3rd party or non-profit - for now, until someone decides that too is a “right”).
I have a question - what happened to parents being responsible for feeding their children? Before I exited my former position as a teacher in a public school, I knew of many families who had reasonable jobs, but their kids still qualified for the free/reduced lunch and breakfast program. Strangely enough, I also knew quite a few who “qualified”, but chose to not participate because they had no problem providing meals for their kids - and often those who made such a decision had less income than those who USED the system.
So what gives? Parents who are not parents - but only biological donors, who don’t really care about anything but themselves. Blew my mind to see kids show up to school with $100 shoes, a cell phone (often a “smartphone), parent driving a new vehicle... and lining up for the free meals in the cafeteria... Obviously, the parental mentality is - why should I pay for food if the government is gonna give it for free? Why spend money on necessities, when I can spend it on stuff I want?
But even more heart wrenching- those kids who barely had shoes or clothes, and pretty much never had materials for class - yet their parents were capable of providing...Far too often the “parents” were more concerned with getting liquored-up/stoned/etc. instead of providing for their family.
And I don’t believe anyone here on this board has an objection to helping those who really need help (not the deadbeats). But when did it become the taxpayer’s responsibility to “help” folks along - including those who make more than you do?
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