How do you like this one as a sign of the times, and yet another example of aggressive government expansion into private life?
A 4-year-old girl goes to school with her lunch (a turkey sandwich, a banana, chips, and apple juice). A state worker inspects the lunch, takes it because it doesn’t meet “USDA guidelines”, and forces her to eat one of the school lunches. They then bill the parents for the lunch.
[sasrcasm]What’s the problem? We’re being told transfats, sugars, and salts are bad for us. We’re fighting a War on Obesity. We’re regulating them at the city and state levels. We changed the Food Pyramid back into a Food Plate. It’s hard for government to regulate what adults eat. It’s more efficient to implement regulation on children and create lifelong compliance![/scarcasm]
Schools and government’s have been trying and succeeding in having a large parental role in our kids lives. That makes it easier for them to seperate family values out of kids at an early age. Parents are no longer fit to decide what their kids eat…the ‘state’ has to do it. School is no longer going to be about teaching English, math, science, history, ect…they are teaching morals, values, politics, ect, and separating your own values out of your kids while replacing them with theirs.
Another War on ______ with a loss of liberty, rights, and individualism. Next step will be mass banning of lunches from home and the government will decide what your kid eats everyday.
Well to be fair, they were practicing earlier last year with cameras in Texas to document how many calories children took in. The next logical step was to jump in when sack lunches became too unhealthy
As a 9th generation Tarheel, I NEVER suffered through anything like THIS, graduating from hi skrool in 1985.
I’ll bet REAL money, that this was thought up by some sort of nanny state carpetbagger from New Yawk, New Joisey, or some other socialist paradise, that began to invade NC (again! :mad: ) beginning in the late '80’s. We NEVER had ‘TSA lunch inspectors’ when I was a kid. :mad::mad::mad:
this is why the federal govt shouldnt be involved in education. Camels nose under the tent and they try to combine jurisdiction with non education related agencies like the USDA to grab even more power.
What are the USDA guidelines for a healthy school lunch? How does “a turkey sandwich, a banana, chips, and apple juice” not fit into a good lunch? The parents should send the bill to the state, along with a lawsuit. This country is getting ridiculous.
While there is no doubt this incident serves as a clear example of some bureaucrat putting their nose where it doesn’t belong (in this case, the kid’s sack lunch), let’s not lose sight of another aspect of this story.
School officials took the kid’s sack lunch and made her eat the cafeteria meal which was … chicken nuggets? Fried chicken nuggets are better for the child than a ham and cheese sandwich?
Recall the actions of Congress late last year, when attempts by the USDA to create menus placing greater emphasis on fresh vegetables and fruits were torpedoed. Those efforts were defeated by members of Congress busily stuffing their pockets with money from the frozen food and ag industry lobbyists, thus insuring that pizza continues to be counted as a vegetable (and it’s not the toppings, it’s the tomato sauce chock full of sugar and salt) and french fries and chicken nuggets stay front and center.
Members of Congress demagogued the efforts of the USDA by characterizing the menu revisions as “the government telling your kids what they should eat,” when, in reality, it was Congress caving to lobbyists insuring that kids are going to continue to be fed what the frozen food manufacturers want to sell the school lunch programs.
I don’t like some school “lunch cop” snatching a kid’s sack lunch any more than the next guy. I also don’t like members of Congress making decisions about what kids are served in their school lunches based on how much money they’re getting from ConAgra, Schwann Foods, and Coca-Cola rather than the recommendations of nutritionists, dieticians, and pediatricians.
Follow the money. It was true back then and it’s still true today.
The mother lives here in Fayetteville. I was reading this article this morning and had to read it twice to believe it. Stuff like this is why I send my kids to a private Christian School! Our school system here in Cumberland and the surrouonding counties is horrible! This goes on all over the country though.
:nono:School never was about education. We imported the modern ideas about schooling from Prussia in the mid-1800s. The goal then ( and now) was conditioning the littlest subjects to be docile servants of the state and employers. An intact, involved family with it’s own value system constitutes a problem for them.
There are exceptions as demonstrated by results but in the main that’s true.
It appears that my young grandson will be home schooled, rather than be a sacrificial offering.
We do the same. It’s a sacrifice financially but well worth it, to escape the demagoguery and sheer brainwashing that are being substituted for real education in the government-run schools.
Yep it’s good for parents to think this through. There are definitely still some good public school systems around, where they still have some teachers with integrity who have not yet been squeezed out.
But if you have the more typical public school system in your area as we do, then Christian school, Christian school by correspondence (some of these courses are now pretty good), or home school, are much better options. You simply can’t expose a young kid to constant brainwashing, 7 or 8 hours a day at school, 5 days a week, 9 months a year, and expect that they won’t be affected by it.
Been a while since I wrote any local congressmen, so this will be my ammunition to do so. Just want to help make sure they know we are paying attention and that it’s totally unacceptable.
