Exclusive: 2nd N.C. Mother Says Daughter’s School Lunch Replaced for Not Being Healthy Enough

The Blaze ^ | 2/17/12 | Madeleine Morgenstern

[Nachum]

North Carolina officials have said there was a misunderstanding when a preschooler’s homemade lunch was sent home for not meeting certain nutritional requirements, but now a second mother from the same school has come forward exclusively to The Blaze to say the same thing happened to her daughter.

Diane Zambrano says her 4-year-old daughter, Jazlyn, is in the same West Hoke Elementary School class as the little girl whose lunch gained national attention earlier this week. When Zambrano picked Jazlyn up from school late last month, she was told by Jazlyn’s teacher that the lunch she had packed that day did not meet the necessary guidelines and that Jazlyn had been sent to the cafeteria.

The lunch Zambrano packed for her daughter? A cheese and salami sandwich on a wheat bun with apple juice. The lunch she got in the cafeteria? Chicken nuggets, a sweet potato, bread and milk.

“She never eats breakfast or lunch at the school,” Zambrano said of her daughter during an interview with The Blaze. “We always wake up early and make her lunch.”

[The Antiyuppie]

Great post. I especially like the “personal liability” angle. If the family doesn’t have enough money to pull this off, the parents whose children get harassed can pool their resources and randomly pick one family to hire a lawyer.

Sometimes, people only “understand” things if they get hit in the wallet area.

[The Antiyuppie]

“School lunches are very heavy on the carbs, and lightweight on protein. “

By remarkable coincidence, kids are generally fatter and dumber than they were 50 years ago...

[ApplegateRanch]

then I had to carefully slice thin pats to completely cover the bread...if you tried to spread cold butter; you ripped your Wonder bread all to hell...

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...sprinkle lightly with sugar (when Mom wasn’t looking) then roll it up, and gently squeeze it into a ‘sausage’, and eat it.

[caww]

I shared this with my son last night when he took me to dinner....He has his teenage girls in Charter School this year and says it’s going very well and they love it! No longer have to deal with all the nonsense and crud going on at the schools. Says the “drama” has all but ceased in their home and remarkable how focused the girls are now...without the distractions and tensions at school...though they were good students before they no longer have the stressload and are overall better for it.

[sheana]

We never put sugar on mayonnaise sandwiches but we did have butter and sugar on bread for breakfast.
The food nazis would have a cow, lol

[Peet]

From the article: “...but now a second mother from the same school has come forward...”

Once is happenstance.

Twice is coincidence.

Three times is enemy action.

[Parmy]

I live in Central Washington. One of the school districts farther down the valley purchased a shredder type of machine to dispose of all of these scraps so that the public couldn’t witness the waste.