Chicago school bans some lunches brought from home

darbs · 04-11-2011, 12:43

What in the heck are we doing in our schools? Since when has it become the governments job to tell me what to feed my kids?

So much for living in a free country...

Here's a snip:

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At Claremont Academy Elementary School on the South Side, officials allow packed lunches but confiscate any snacks loaded with sugar or salt. (They often are returned after school.) Principal Rebecca Stinson said that though students may not like it, she has yet to hear a parent complain.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/e...,4567867.story

**Pete** · 04-11-2011, 12:59

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Originally Posted by darbs

What in the heck are we doing in our schools? Since when has it become the governments job to tell me what to feed my kids?

So much for living in a free country...

Here's a snip:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/e...,4567867.story

It's all about the money.

School lunch is a federal cash cow. The more kids you get eating lunch the more you can get on the full or reduced price program.

CSB · 04-11-2011, 13:25

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Any school that bans homemade lunches also puts more money in the pockets of the district's food provider, Chartwells-Thompson. The federal government pays the district for each free or reduced-price lunch taken, and the caterer receives a set fee from the district per lunch.

Yeah, that made it into the article as well.

**Box** · 04-11-2011, 13:58

The government is here to help us...
...that is why we should raise taxes on the evil stingy rich people.

Only bad parents would dare give their kids a PBJ and a banana when they could pay the school for one of those nutritious 'pizza disks'

ZonieDiver · 04-11-2011, 14:13

One of the "hot new" restaurants in Scottsdale, AZ volunteered to provide lunch for a local elementary school - providing good food made from fresh local vegetables, etc. The staff loved it, the kids reallllly loved it, the district lunch "poobahs" hated it. It ain't about good food, it is about power, farm subsidies, and the USDA.

**Pete** · 04-11-2011, 14:24

The Kids at Short Round's School really love Chick-Fil-A day. Sign up and pay in the morning and get a Hot Chicken Sandwich for lunch from Chick-Fil-A. Then again it's a private school.

Private or Public it's the rare child that eats the healthy items in a school lunch.

I go a couple of times a month to eat with Short Round (Taco Bell or Mickie D's) and get a good look at the school lunch. Looks pretty healthy with a good mix of veggies and fruit to go with the main meal. Most of the kids just push the stuff on their tray around untill lunch is over and then they dump it.

Which reminds me - it's getting to be the end of the school year. How many of you with kids in K-5 failed to find time to go eat lunch with them at least once this year.