Posted on 02/13/2014 8:14:36 AM PST by cornfedcowboy
LOL. Nope, not that I know of anyway, I’ve even heard there are some schools were kids are able to walk home for lunch. I would say that Alberta is similar to Texas/Wyoming, as such the people get saner the farther you go from the cities..anyway, I’m happy to be moving back to Texas next month.
I agree completely. My experience in 12 years of Catholic school was exactly as you describe.
Do away with the school cafeteria, and a lot of money and time will be saved.
What bothers me most is that these parents took this story to the TV station.
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Can you smell a lawsuit? I can. Sad.
Can’t do what with both parents working? Pack a kid’s lunch for school?
Interesting.
Maybe sometimes it goes a little too far, but Asian cultures (maybe most traditional cultures, maybe even ours, years ago) expects a reasonable level of responsibility from children. My ex grew up in China near Beijing, and she told me how students were responsible for making the fire (coal-fired stove) in their classroom in the morning, a maintaining it. They were also put to work on various tasks around the school.
We seem to have come to a point where we don’t expect children to do anything for themselves (never mind others). Heck, our governments don’t seem to even expect poor adults to do anything for themselves.
you have not lived till you get sent to bad check school!!!
You are so correct that it wasn't so different in America not so long ago. One day, in my senior year, the principal called me into his office. I was more curious than scared because I knew I'd done nothing wrong. He informed me that the kids were getting a little out of hand dropping trash around the school property and it would be my job, as student body president, to lead the student council around picking up trash on and around the school. What else could I do?
Yeah, it was a nice fall day and we all appreciated the opportunity to get out of the building during school hours to perform even such a menial task. But the image of jocks, rock stars, cheerleaders and other student leaders picking up trash sent a far more powerful message to the rank-and-file than any announcement or assembly could have done.
I didn't like it at the time, but I really grown to appreciate my high school principal since.
“what’s the problem with carrying your own lunch money?”
I suppose one answer is security - kids can’t have their lunch money stolen if its in an EFT system. Probably also easier to manage and quicker than handling cash.
I think another reason they’ve done it is so there is no noticeable difference in the lunch line between those who get their school lunch for free, and those whose parents pay for it (except, of course, the welfare kids probably don’t ever have to worry about being denied lunch because their account is empty).
just another subtle game to endorse govt as ‘helpers’ and reduce self reliance
I attended schools in Nova Scotia and British Columbia, and was just asking a co-worker who grew up in Ontario, and from what I can tell schools in Canada generally don’t provide school lunches, or breakfasts. Certainly the two elementary schools that I went to didn’t even have cafeterias. The junior high and high schools that I went to did have cafeterias, but they only had a snack bar - you could get stuff like chips, donuts, milk, a steamed hot dog, etc.
“I’ve even heard there are some schools were kids are able to walk home for lunch.”
Growing up in Nova Scotia, I used to walk home, or to the house of the lady who baby-sat me after school, to have a hot lunch every day. A lot better food than the slop I’ve seen served up in most US school cafeterias. Actually, I used to have lobster for lunch on a regular basis - the brother of the lady who took care of me was a part-time lobster fisherman, and would drop some off to her on his way to his day job in the morning, after he’d gone out lobstering in the early hours.
First day of school, most schools give parents their kid's password. You have a password for FR, so aren't you just so tech savy.
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