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As a family we have total lactose intolerance. The schools were all the time trying to kill my kids with that whole-milk stuff and would make no efforts whatsoever to provide acidophilous milk.

Removing the fat from whole milk (which is what makes it no longer 'whole') has no effect on the milk's lactose content.

So moving to Pennsylvania would not have helped you there.

Besides, if you wanted your children to have acidophilus milk, why couldn't you send it with them to school? Or better yet, supply your own children with lactase tablets?

Seems very un-conservative to me to demand that taxpayers pay for such minutely special provisions. Are we going to kow-tow to those who demand special lunches for Muslim children too? (Oh wait, they're probably already doing that in NYC.)

The schools here were catering to a minority when it came to lactose intolerance. The majority were the ones whose kids needed acidophilous. (This is neither an Hindu nor Western European dominated area).

BTW, sending your kids to school with lactase pills would probably get them expelled since the "zero tolerance" standards simply prohibit such a thing. Remember, public school teachers are too stupid to tell the difference between the narcotics they used in college and aspirins!

BTW, I know full well that the "whole" in "whole milk" does not refer to nutritiousness but rather to the fat content. Still, it has propaganda value and is used by the National Dairy Council to convince school boards to deny acidophilous milk to school children.