Posted on 10/19/2011 10:56:49 AM PDT by IbJensen
(CNSNews.com) - First Lady Michelle Obama said yesterday that the government can affect who kids “will be forever” if it can shape their "habits and preferences" during the large part of the day they are at school.
Mrs. Obama was speaking on the South Lawn of the White House at a reception to honor schools that met the goals of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s HealthierUS School Challenge (HUSSC). The USDA Web site describes HUSSC as “a voluntary initiative established in 2004 to recognize those schools participating in the National School Lunch Program that have created healthier school environments through promotion of nutrition and physical activity.” The program has since been rolled into Mrs. Obama’s “Let’s Move!” initiative.
“When many kids spend half of their waking hours and get up to half their daily calories at school, you know that with the food you serve and, more importantly, the lessons you teach that you're not just shaping their habits and preferences today, you’re affecting the choices they’re going to make for the rest of their lives,” said Mrs. Obama.
“That's why we start with kids, right?” she said. “We can affect who they will be forever.”
At the reception, Mrs. Obama praised the 1,273 schools that have doubled the number of students eating federally subsidized meals that fit the program’s criteria.
Among the schools Mrs. Obama praised was the Burlington Elementary School of North Dakota, where, she said, the teachers eat two USDA-approved meals a day with the students.
“And the teachers eat breakfast and lunch with students every single day,” said Mrs. Obama. “Now, that's a sacrifice. You know it. That's love. They even send out a monthly newsletter called, “Nutrition Notes,” to provide healthy eating tips and recipes for the families.
“You’re affecting not just how these kids feed themselves, but how they’re going to feed their own children,” she said.
“So the beauty is, is that you’re not just making this generation of kids healthier, but the next generation as well. And that is truly, truly powerful stuff,” she said.
Mrs. Obama said that the children trained in these schools may have a trickle-down effect on their families.
“They're changing the way they think about their health and they're trickling that information down to their families,” said the First Lady.
. We need to shout that It is NOT Just The Economy!
She knows that that I am a conservative. I told her the difference between a conservative and liberal over the years. I advised her if you want to have your freedom and be an adult and have control of your life and decisions(you will have to deal with the consequences of bad decisions), be conservative. If you want to be controlled and told to do as an adult(if you still want to be remain and still treated as a child), be a liberal.
The Freedom or Chains lecture.
Michelle, I don’t WANT you trying to shape who my kids are. I want the schools to teach “reading, writing, and arithmetic”. It’s not your business to teach them anything else.
Depending on if the “super PC oh-so-sensitive” moderator is on duty today, your post might not last.
She is absolutely proud of that fact.
Summary: Chapter II
Winston opens the door fearfully, assuming that the Thought Police have arrived to arrest him for writing in the diary. However, it is only Mrs. Parsons, a neighbor in his apartment building, needing help with the plumbing while her husband is away. In Mrs. Parsons’s apartment, Winston is tormented by the fervent Parsons children, who, being Junior Spies, accuse him of thoughtcrime. The Junior Spies is an organization of children who monitor adults for disloyalty to the Party, and frequently succeed in catching them—Mrs. Parsons herself seems afraid of her zealous children. The children are very agitated because their mother won’t let them go to a public hanging of some of the Party’s political enemies in the park that evening.
One of the tactics of the left (ie, communists) has been to take over the education system.
You let the conservatives support their bigger families and send them to school where the leftists turn them out in THEIR own image, not yours.
BTW, this is why leftists HATE homeschoolers, because they are circumventing their master plan.
Just like your husband, he was brainwashed as a child & young adult, you see what that has brought us, you crazy lunatic!
STAY AWAY FROM OUR KIDS!!!
STAY AWAY FROM OUR KIDS!!!
The Bible says to train up a young child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. The Communist/Socialist plan is to indoctrinate children into the way the state wants them to go, and Voila! --the state has little menschen marching goose step when called up by said state.
It started the first minute the very first socialist government schools opened in the U.S.! ( mid-1800s to early 1900s) Indoctrination has **always** always** always** been the goal of compulsory, socialist-funded, government schooling.
Indoctrination of the next generation of voters has **always** been the goal of the Progressives of the 1800s who lobbied for universal, single-payer, compulsory, and socialist-funded government schooling!
Please read John Gatto.
Compulsory, single-payer, socialist schooling has **always** been a First Amendment, human rights, and freedom of conscience abomination since the beginning! ( mid-1800s to early 1900s).
Personally....I am done with socialist school teachers! DONE! I can no longer have one as a friend. They are either too evil or too stupid to be a friend.
***...Mrs. Obama praised the 1,273 schools that have doubled the number of students eating federally subsidized meals...***
This means that a whole bunch of kids’ families are now at or below the poverty line that were not there before - due to YOUR HUSBAND’S inept performance at the WH!
The leftists are like parasitic cuckoo birds.
Yeah, sort of, though the cuckoo doesn’t teach their offspring.
The liberals take others’ “eggs” and teach them as their own while the real parents are expected to feed, clothe, and board them.
Ok?...So?....What would your plan be?
May well have been started back then, but since I am not that old I can only comment since the 1960s! :-)
Well said. The rail is greased and ready BTW.
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