Students Forced to Eat School Lunch to Supplement Home Made Lunch

Civitas Institute ^ | 2/14/12 | Matt Willoughby

[cavdad]

Nanny state at work.

[Persevero]

“Let’s Move!” - childhood obesity campaign.

[DPMD]

Worse than that. To conclude that lunches are sub par, they have to be searching the lunches of students. Authority?

Have the kids eat off campus.

[brownsfan]

I swear, if that were my child, someone would get fired. And if I was ignored, there would be an unfortunate accident in someone’s future.

There is little that fires me up like a two bit bureaucrat abusing his or her power.

[FrankR]

"Nanny" obama at work...

[rockabyebaby]

OMG! LMAO!

[Bitsy]

There is little that fires me up like a two bit bureaucrat abusing his or her power.

PAID BY US!!! These cretins work for us!!!!

[Spok]

I have four chilren and I made a practice of having lunch with them in elementary school. The truth is kids pitch the healthy stuff on their tray in the garbage and just eat dessert. Getting children to eat what’s good for them at home is a struggle-when they’re at school, it’s a lost cause. Go to a school cafeteria and look in the garbage cans-it’s enlightening.

[Edgerunner]

There is little that fires me up like a two bit bureaucrat abusing his or her power. <-i>

Petty Tyrants

[iceskater]

I was about to suggest that this mom go have lunch with her daughter. Then see what the jack-booted thugs have to say about her lunch brought from home.

[donna]

Public schools are indoctrination camps. Rescue your kids before it's to late.

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’s not the Nanny State but the Food Nazis that are up to no good again!

NO BROWN BAG LUNCH FOR YOU!!!!

[A_Former_Democrat]

I remember a grade school teacher sent me back to my desk to finish a really distasteful school “lunch” I didn’t want it, it was gross to me, and finally she gave up and spend a good part of the afternoon ridiculing me in front of classmates.

Next day Mom was waiting outside the room when teacher reported for duty. Needless to say, Mom won.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I feel pretty sure the whole idea is to do away with the homemade lunch so all the little robots eat the same thing.

[Ohioan]

This certainly epitomizes the fundamental issues before us. There is no way that those who created America would ever have tolerated this. There is no way that this could ever be acceptable to those who intend to preserve the values that made America possible; that made her people succeed as no other in human history--when that was still the case.

America was Grounded On Experience & Reason; a people who had built local communities from the ground up, literally from scratch. They understood that what works best in every area of human social concern, is that which maximizes personal, individual responsibility. Parents, not the State, not a distant bureaucracy; not busy bodies with political connections in far off places; the parents, were responsible for their children's care & well being; their food, shelter & raiment.

This is not only insulting to the people in this school district. It is teaching a terrible--terribly unamerican--lesson to these children. But, then, perhaps that is actually the intent. We are no longer on the same page as to what fundamental principles we support.

William Flax

[cld51860]

“Next day Mom was waiting outside the room when teacher reported for duty. Needless to say, Mom won.”

Ah yes... Those were the days... When parents actually had a say in what was happening to their kids at school.

I had a progressive once tell me, flat out, that our kids did not belong to us, and it was the state’s responsibility to raise them.

The mask is off, folks...

[ScottinVA]

I feel pretty sure the whole idea is to do away with the homemade lunch so all the little robots eat the same thing.

Tainted with psychotropic drugs... all for the common good, you know.

[apillar]

I've come to the conclusion that this is all about getting children conditioned at a young age to accept, even expect government control over their diet (along with every other facet of their life). So in another decade, when the government decides it can regulate your diet and ban fast food and junk food in the name of national healthcare, there will be little to no resistance.

[DTogo]

I swear, if that were my child, someone would get fired. And if I was ignored, there would be an unfortunate accident in someone’s future.

Well said! Force my kids to do/eat something not part of the basic "Three R's" of school and someone's asking for it.

[GeronL]

“we” have given the federal government a free hand to be tyrants in the name of “health”.

Now we live in a tyranny.