Food Fight: Chicago School Bans Students From Bringing Own Lunches
- Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:49am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Who would have ever thought that the youth would revolt over bringing their own lunches to school? But while young communists march against austerity in Britain, young people at one Chicago school are fighting their administrators for the opportunity to pack their own meals. All because the school wants to promote healthy choices.
“Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?” the Chicago Tribune recently observed seventh-grader Fernando Dominguez shouting to his lunch mates in Spanish and English at Little Village Academy. It‘s a public school on Chicago’s West Side.
As numerous hands reached for the ceiling, Dominguez led a chant: “We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch!”
At the school, students are only allowed to bring their own lunch if they have a medical excuse. Why? You guessed it: the school wants to protect children from food that’s unhealthy.
“Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,”Principal Elsa Carmona told the Tribune. “It’s about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It’s milk versus a Coke. But with allergies and any medical issue, of course, we would make an exception.”
Carmona said she instituted the policy six years ago when she got tired of seeing kids bringing chips and soda. According to her, it’s a common practice in Chicago. And according to a district spokesperson, that’s okay.
“While there is no formal policy, principals use common sense judgment based on their individual school environments,” Monique Bond wrote in an email. “In this case, this principal is encouraging the healthier choices and attempting to make an impact that extends beyond the classroom.”
The ban has had two effects. First, more government money funneled to the school lunch provider. And second, ironically, less students eating the meals. The Tribune explains the not-so-shocking details:
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.
At Little Village, most students must take the meals served in the cafeteria or go hungry or both. During a recent visit to the school, dozens of students took the lunch but threw most of it in the garbage uneaten. Though CPS has improved the nutritional quality of its meals this year, it also has seen a drop-off in meal participation among students, many of whom say the food tastes bad.
“Some of the kids don’t like the food they give at our school for lunch or breakfast,” Little Village parent Erica Martinez told the Tribune. “So it would be a good idea if they could bring their lunch so they could at least eat something.”
“This is such a fundamental infringement on parental responsibility,” J. Justin Wilson, a senior researcher at the Washington-based Center for Consumer Freedom, told the Tribune. (The center is partially funded by the food industry, the news outlet reports.)
“Would the school balk if the parent wanted to prepare a healthier meal?” he added. “This is the perfect illustration of how the government’s one-size-fits-all mandate on nutrition fails time and time again. Some parents may want to pack a gluten-free meal for a child, and others may have no problem with a child enjoying soda.”
Read the full story from the Chicago Tribune.
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bjornskis
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:07pmI just wonder what the teachers and administrators are eating and drinking
whats good for the goose is good for the gander
Report Post »pandora
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:26pmTeachers will live in state approved barracks from now on and they will eat in a government mess hall. They will wear uniforms and they are not allowed to leave the school compound without a pass.
Report Post »jerryod1627
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:41pmOh no, they are union, remember they can do as they want, obama is on their side!
Report Post »MrsMB2008
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:06pmThe government needs to control all of our food supply that way they can alter food whatever way they see fit to make us comply with what they want.
Report Post »pandora
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:06pmYou will only eat government approved food! We will feed you – you do not need to choose your own food – we will tell you what to eat, what to wear, where to live, what your job will be, who you can talk to, what car to drive, how many children you can have, what their numbers will be – yes I said numbers. It’s over unless we wake up and make some changes we “really” can believe in.
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:10pmCommrad Stalin would approve of this peoples committee plan to feed the state’s future workers.
Report Post »ms4kidz
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:06pmOur school lunches are between 650-950 calories with 8-25% of the calories being from fat. This is NOT a healthy lunch. I wish so bad our schools actually offered healthy food, even just a salad/fruit bar would be so nice. Perhaps the school figures the food tastes so nasty the kids only eat 1/2 of it lol.
Report Post »Florida_Freedom_Fighter
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:05pmGovernment knows better than parents ??? This is Frickin’ Ludicrous ! ! !
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:05pmSome parents shouldn’t have the right to be “parents” those are the 1%”s that are making the marxist Governement react (cause they feel they can get away with it). Argue the point and they wil say “what you want children to starve”? If I had the time I would homeschool my daughter but, since I HAVE to work she is at the mercy of HS teachers with tenure!!!! Lose money or holiday/“sick” time if I go to a parent teacher conference!!!!! Grades K-6 Reading writing and Math. Grades 7-9 Math History and Science. Grades 10-12 Math Reading Writing and History (only social programs should be Resumee Building and College entrance and Music/Performing arts). Sports/ROTC should be done in the community like Little League and Boy Scouts!
Report Post »harumph
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:05pmClearly, many of these parents have exited the responsibility train. I’d like to know how many of these parents are being heavily subsidized by you and me.
Report Post »MommaGrizzly
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:04pmThey try to pull this crap at my daughters’ school and I will homeschool.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:03pmGreat! Then we can ban our children from going to your schools.
AND, we can ban school-supported taxes for us to pay!!!
You go, nanny state…. you are SOL.
Report Post »southernORcobra
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:02pmpretty bad when kids see through the BS
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:01pmThere should be a few doctors in white coats outside of the school writing fake medical excuses for these kid’s lunches – taking a page from the book of the Wisconsin teachers.
Report Post »Softbrez
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:09pmBravo
Report Post »BrerRabbit
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:01pmHome schools……how long will the nanny allow them?
Report Post »Nigel2
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:01pmMooochele would be proud!!
Report Post »Justin.Long
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:00pmfollow th money trail if the school feel like they arent getting any money they will retaliate
Report Post »gopsnativeson
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:59amYeah, a great explanation from the administrator,.
While there is no formal policy, principals use common sense judgment based on their individual school environments,” Monique Bond wrote in an email. “In this case, this principal is encouraging the healthier choices and attempting to make an impact that extends beyond the classroom.”
Banning parents from providing their children with a homemade lunch is considered “encouraging a healthier choice”
Wow, how in the hell could this be going on for 6 years & parents just accept it.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:58amIn my family, we’re allergic to Communism. That would be the only reason I would give as our kids packed their own lunches for school.
***All grown now, but our kids always took lunches from home. They universally despised school lunches as being “gross” – their words, not mine. They went to private schools, too.***
Report Post »starman70
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:57amPeople, people you are now sheeple! YOU WILL FOLLOW THE COMMANDS OF THE NANNY STATE! Individual thought is is hereby banished! WE, THE ELITE KNOW WHAT’S BEST FOR YOU! Let them try to enforce that on my kids! HOMESCHOOL, HOMESCHOOL, HOMESCHOOL!
Report Post »Amren
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:57amParent‘s this is why you need to keep abreast of what’s going on in your child’s school. If I had a child at this school, I would pull him out ASAP! If you can, pull your child before the 100 day mark – a “magic” day at schools. Ask your pricipal “why?”. – it would be even better.
Report Post »Hephzibah
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:55amSoon we will have no freedoms whatsoever!
Report Post »retriever
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:14pmYou will have no freedom only if you let it happen!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:25pmI would respond but Cass Sunstein says I can’t.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:54amHow much do you want to bet that there is probably some link to the caterer and the principal somewhere – it is Illinois – home of graft and corruption – just sayin’…..
Report Post »1952
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:00pmsounds about right to me… no big surprise from Chicago.
Report Post »puck30
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:54am“The ban has had two effects. First, more government money funneled to the school lunch provider…….”
As Rush would say, ‘follow the money trail.’
Report Post »uncleskull
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:59amBingo!
Report Post »SaveTheRepublic
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:53amThis is absolutely disgusting, a little third reichy to me if you ask… But really, who didn’t see this coming…
Report Post »Gita
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:53amSuprise only in Chicage although coming to a school near you? Just try it here in Florida. The chunk a wunk lady in the white house is probably behind this. No pun intended.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:51pmthunder thighs strikes again Mooochell Obumbler, +ZIEG HEIL!!!
Report Post »Uncle Sham
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:50pmThat won’t fly in Tejas!!
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:53amLand of the FREE???????????? We must have given that up to people “Who know what is best for us”!!
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:14pmI guess most of you aren’t really old enough to remember how our parents were up in arms about the way the Soviet Union communists took children from their parents and sent them to kindergarden, made the parents work, and so indoctrinated whole generations of Russians.
There is no way to change this “education system” our children and grandchildren are trapped in if YOU refuse to care and chose carefully those you vote for – not just for congress or president – but the local school board.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:18pmThere is a way to “change” the educational system .. but they are trying to take it away .. HOME SCHOOL … that is the ONLY way to try to keep your child FREE!
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:26pmI’m willing to bet that the TEACHERS bring their own lunch.
TheGoverness
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:40pm@CATB~
Report Post »This is exactly why I chose to be a governess! I can give a child an excellent foundation in all areas of education, teach him HOW to learn and then set him loose. Anyone taught HOW to learn can learn ANYTHING with little to no adult “supervision”. I <3 homeschooling!
CatB
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:56pm@THEGOVERNESS….
That is right … as soon as I could financially I sent my son to a private school (home schooling was being “fought” in his public school even then .. they made all kinds of threats against me when I mentioned it) the difference with private was they gave him the tools to learn … not just the books and someone to monitor the class. He flourished and went on to college .. a private school not state institution even then, graduated and is a responsible adult.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:24pmHistory shows us what happens when we let others decide for us what is good for us. It was called National Socialism or its slang which is most known by “NAZIISM”, that is what happens when a Gov’t tells you it can put you to work, feed your children and heal your sick.
Report Post »ilovethiscountry
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:42pm@catb
Report Post »I homeschooled my grandchildren One through 8th grade The other full time throught 8th grade snd then for hs she went part time to public hs. They are conservative. The hs students are liberal If they speak up, they are pushed over, punched, ridiculed, etc. I am sooooo glad I homeschooled!
stormcrow53
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:33pmBy the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Report Post »Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
–Emerson–
Broken Arrow
Miguelito
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:52amChicago, ground zero for losing your freedoms!
Report Post »starman70
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:03pmThe Chicago mobsters reign supreme. Apparently the parents didn’t pay enough “Hush Money” to allow them to send their kids to school with their own lunches.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:03pmYou vill eat vaht I tell you to eat, jesss??
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:36pmYes but unfortuantely .. they are now running D.C. …. so it may be “ground zero” but it is coming .. everywhere … how long before soda, chips etc are illegal in your local grocery store? Don’t think it could happen .. who ever thought you couldn’t bring your own lunch to school. I would be pulling my child out of that school .. they have a BAD ATTITUDE!
Report Post »LadyLiberty
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:47pmuntameable kate just made me laugh SO hard… that post is gold. +LOVE
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:40pmMS. Untameable you sound eerily like that spooky dude!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:50amSaw this earler and posted about it.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:54amThe nanny state and her iron fist.
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:56amLiberals attempting to seek more and more control over our lives. Imagine not being able to eat food from your own house, because the government says it’s not healthy enough! Pure socialism: http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/03/socialism-explained.html This is the nanny state at its worst.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:57amOnly a matter of time before they ban the students.
Report Post »1952
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:59amWhat a joke. Our school serves 3 kinds of pizza, corn dogs, chicken products…. with these you can get a salad or greasy chips…. with milk or water. What is so wonderful about this mess?
Report Post »Stevsea
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:00pmCommunism, plain as day. What happens when ‘they’ stop serving meat because ‘they’ think that is unhealthy. Or anything else for that matter. People in this country need a brain enema.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:01pmMaybe they can start installing devices on our TV’s to monitor and control what our kids watch, internet control over what they visit, or maybe we can just have a Govt. person live with us to “Guide” our parenting.
Nah, they should just take our kids from us and raise them in the Hitl…er, America First Camps.
TAXLORDCOMETH
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:01pmWe won’t have to worry too much longer about Chicago tyranny. They’re totally insolvent and heading for economic meltdown. Oh, and I should add they have the highest municipal tax rate in the nation.
Report Post »Infected
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:02pmHealthy?… TaterTots?
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:02pmIt is no coincidence that as universal health care dreams loom, that government entities seek to exert more and more control over things they deem as helping control costs. Undoubtedly they will tout the benefits to some children as a mask for the real desires to control peoples diets. This is a stepping stone to other more scary developments to control costs under the mask of “caring” for people. It is the beginning of the birth pangs of more and more government intrusion and control, the likes of which would certainly have our founders grieving over the state of our republic.
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:07pmOne more reason not to go to Chicago and support any of this BS. Why do people choose to live in a state like this?
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:10pmYou will eat what we tell you to eat. You will learn what we think you should learn. You will go where we tell you to go. You will march in protest of what we tell you to protest. They have control of the young, how much longer until they control the rest of us???
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:11pmHere’s some common sense. How about punishing the kids involved in the food fight instead of every kid?
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:12pmConspiracy theory time:
What are the schools in Chicago putting in the foods they demand the students eat?
Just a thought….
right-wing-waco
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:18pmBIGJAYINPA
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:10pm
“They have control of the young, how much longer until they control the rest of us???”
It is a simple case of attrition. As us old people die off the percentage of robots increases.
Report Post »Infected
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:20pm“WTOH”, that is what I was telling my wife when Obamacare first started… I told her that it is more about control than health.. The part that scares me is when they decide that we all need some sort of “vacination”, and it will be mandatory.. Maybe use H1N1 as the excuse…. Now I am a little more “conspiracy theory” than most, but when I think of mandatory shots, I think population control.
Report Post »SoCal Patriot
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:21pmWhew…that was pretty wise of that principal to “protect children” from choices their parents make. Those tater tots are much safer than the roasted almonds I send my kids to school with. Who’s “protecting” my kids from my crazy ideas of a healthful lunch? I mean, let’s be honest, it’s really all about milk vs. a Coke…
Report Post »SoCal Patriot
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:23pmOn second thought…tater tots probably are quite a bit safer than roasted almonds in a food fight. I should arm my kids with safety goggles and a helmet before sending them off to school.
Report Post »Rearden Steel
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:23pm“All because the school wants to promote healthy choices.”
They aren’t promoting choices by making the decisions for you. (see also: CFLs)
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:27pmMom knows best on what to feed their kids…
Report Post »The school wants all kids to eat the same thing to prevent some kid having his lunch stolen by someone who though he/she had a better lunch…Therefore punish all kids to eat the same slop…
delhoghe
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:30pm” while young communists march against austerity in Britain .”, is the Blaze trying to insult my intellegence ? What does Britain have to do with school lunches in Chicago ? I suppose Blaze readers need a steady does of propaganda to keep them brainless and obedient, but this so obvious even the most intellectually challenged Blazer should see it.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:32pmHad to know this was coming…Chicago ??? Interesting
Report Post »Asmodeus13
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:35pmHmmm yeah healthier maybe, but does anyone ever remember eating the food schools serve? I do, it is some of the worst tasting crap ever concocted, using the cheapest, and lowest common denominator of ingredients. Soon we will all be eating this depressing food it is only a matter of time. I say if the principle is so sick, and tired of seeing kids exercise their freedoms by eating what they like then so should the teachers be made to eat the school lunches, and have harsh punishments for teachers who try, and circumvent this rule by going off campus for lunch….
Report Post »theonefromabove
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:36pmSounds pretty ridiculous to me as I always took my own lunch.
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Report Post »auntbea
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:38pm“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.”
Report Post »kschmud
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:39pmWouldn’t this be unconstitutional — that is the gov’t is forcing you to buy something you would not normally have to buy…and you would end up spending more money on food. Packing your lunch at home is cheaper
Report Post »LadyLiberty
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:44pmI think my child would suddenly have an allergy condition and therefore Carmona can take her liberty infringment and stick it up her @$$.
Report Post »http://ladyliberty1885.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/dont-touch-my-junk-nanny-state-edition/
nptden
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 12:52pmWere getting there. Next they will keep your children, maybe allow weekend home visits, ‘in order to protect them’….When will we rid this country of these deniers of ‘freedom of choice’. They want to ‘chose’ for the country….Time to oust them, ‘to protect our liberty’.
Report Post »Class2000Generation
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:01pmNo way would this happen in my child’s school without having heavy opposition from me. Ironically, I have my daughter bring cold lunch because it’s healthier. Whole wheat bread w/natural peanut butter and honey, lettuce, spinach, carrots, pudding… yes, it‘s much better than the cafeteria’s taco salad.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:17pmI told people a long time ago…when I started seeing what the government did to smokers in the name of “its not good for you” mentality. Well folks, we stood by when they took more and more privalidges from smokers, taxed the crap out of them and threw them out into the rain to smoke. If you agree with what we did to them, then you are OK with what they are doing in schools. I see the day when the soda tax, fast food tax and worse, what they can serve you…..You are already seeing it now with Micky Ds. You went along with them (government) when they allowed the EPA to make a ruling law with second hand smoke when a judge threw it out. Thats right, it was thrown out. The judge even noted the study as flawed. Any study that shows second hand smoke being more dangerous than what a smoker inhales, you know it was forged. So there was the wedge to the door….the judge threw it out and the EPA adopted it without congress. So when the EPA or FDA determines what is good for you and what isn’t good luck, we santioned them. By the way, its against the law to smoke tobacco in parks in San Diego…however, its OK to smoke pot…..
Report Post »ConsiderThis
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:20pmIt’s Chicago! Go figure, eh?
Report Post »Somewhere in the chain there is a money seepage.
darkknight91
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:25pmImagine that…Chicago. The whole ruling class of Chicago needs to move to the East Side.
Report Post »nosycophant
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:36pmCan you say SEIU????????
Report Post »48
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:43pmThis is just another way for the school system to try and show they need more money. The more kids they have to feed, the more money they need. The public school system is a joke with a bunch of liberal a$$es running it.
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:50pmWow! This is getting so out of hand. The liberals always knows what’s best for you, whether you like it or not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68uzsXdMLS4
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:55pmWell this does do one thing. It warns the soon to be parents not to move or relocate to Chicago. It will also give private schools a leg up no, im willing to bet. As extreme as this is I would hope the Chicago court system over-rules this piece of communistic crap.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:59pmResistance is futile. You must assimilate. Democrats = The Borg.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 1:59pmI guess they are worried that the parents may poison their kids or maybe the libs want to fatten ‘em up so they can complain about kids eating too much.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:13pmWhen we see these issues, imho, it’s good to contact the school and school district officials. They like to think they’re getting away with this stuff, behind closed doors, and no one knows. Telling them that they‘re getting National attention is what they don’t want to hear. Telling them that America doesn‘t like what they’re trying to pull off is something they don’t want to hear even more. Contact info for schools and school boards is very easy to find on-line.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:20pmIt’s not about the quality of the food. It’s about CONTROL!
Report Post »RonaldoMagus
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:22pmSo…… exactly how much does Carmona get from Chartwells-Thompson? Check the owner of the empty lot next door to her home she uses? Wonder if she uses the bribe money to send her kids to private school??? It’s about power, money, and control…..
Students should dump their school lunches in her purse!
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:26pmwhat do you all expect from communist country chicago??
I swear we are going to vote all of these communists out of office everywhere, then all the communists will be left with one thing to do – revolt on the streets, then we deal with them on their terms! come on pinko punks, make my DAY!
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:32pm@delhoghe – poor little troll, you don‘t even know you’ve been brainwashed, but you will find out soon enough my friend, soon enough…
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:38pmThe iron fist of communism alive in AMERICA. If you don’t want to eat our food, we force it on you. Next will be the mandatory brainwash boothes set up at the DMV forcing all of us to comply or die by the gestapo that is the liberal progressive disease in AMERICA.
Report Post »edcoil
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:45pmIf they have to now pay for the lunches is this a tax and school boards have no taxing authority.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:46pmIt isn’t their children and parents have the right to make their children their own lunches. This one size fits all sh## is getting old fast. And if the public education isn‘t careful they’ll end up losing alot more students to home education and charter schools.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:50pmIn order to create lock step lemmis schools need to control the kinds of protien the children can recieve. Much like cult leaders by depriving high iron,b-12,amino acids,and omega acids they can control the students thought processes easier. It’s the oldest trick in the book.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:58pm@ INFECTED…..Your concerns are most valid if you look at any and I mean ANY dictator, or communist leaning style of government that seeks to “promote” the welfare of the masses, they can only do so at the expense of their liberties. Of course they and those sympathetic to their cause don’t often see it that way (unless of course you have an evil intent to gain control and use these things as a ruse, which has and still does happen at the higher levels of authority typically with the “middle management and foot soldiers being sincere believers) because their conscience gives them the approval that they are doing what is good and right for society on a whole. They use the same cover of deception that it needs to be done for the overall good in one way or another typically parading personal accounts of stories that play on the emotions sympathetic to their ultimate causes and agendas.
Health control in the works —- Check
Financial control increasing ——Check
Educational financing control ——Check
Educational indoctrination ———Check
Industry control through EPA ——Check
Limiting freedoms for “security” ——-Check
Compulsory Vaccinations ——–Check
Debasing Currency by monetizing ——Check
Ever increasing Internationalism ——Check
Illegal Immigration and Entitlements ——-Check
You tell me what’s going on from the list above. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see where things are being pushed intentionally. People simply have difficulty connecting the dots to very powerful and wealthy people to believe it is possible to do such things, but our founders knew all to well it is not as hard as people think. Our freedom loving mentality fostered by attitudes that take those liberties for granted have dulled us to the fact that they are always under attack and to the manner in which they are assaulted. People just don’t want to hear, know or learn about the 800 pound gorilla in front of us for the most part. Heck most of those involved have even stated so much from their own mouths because they no longer fear exposure due to the indifference of so many………
Report Post »trt1
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:16pmUhmmm…where the hell are the parents? They just went along with this BS?
Report Post »stormcrow53
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:24pmGo to CountrySide Homesteading and Small Stock Journal Vol. 95, Number 2 March/April 2011 page 72 and read about the Food Safety Modernization Act. From Sebelius’ HHS there is no absolute right to consume or to feed children any particular food and there is no deeply rooted historical tradition of unfettered access to foods of all kinds. This is unbearable tyranny. Tarnation, there ain’t no deeply rooted historical tradition of freedom and liberty. It is less than three hundred years old. We cannot be politically correct anymore. This administration must be deposed and prosecuted. We must impeach the Marxist dictator, scour the government of the Marxist minions and Soros lackeys and restore the Republic.
Report Post »The enemy is within the walls.
restorehope
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:30pmThis administrator is not ‘encouraging’ them to pick healthy choices for lunch, she is FORCING them. If less of them are eating this heathy food, that means they are probably satisfying their hunger with lots of snacks later on. This nanny move on the school‘s part is counterproductive and typically a progressive’s tactic.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:06pmI dont see what the big deal is. Our dear leader is just trying to make sure that we are better parents than his were. after all I dont think his mom or dad ever packed him a lunch. Hard to do when you are off at a commie training camp.
I am now in Chicago boycott mode. And I am fully entrenched in anti lefty boycotts, to include hollywood. Mr Beck doesnt like boycotts, but we need to speak with our dollars. After all in reality, thats why he is transitioning out of Fox. Hard to stay on when you have 5 presidential boycotts against you.
And BTW, who is gonna be paying for all the blueberries and fresh fruit for these little kids? Didnt know chicago was rollin in the dough.
Report Post »pappy
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:19pmI went thru my jr. hi & sr. hi years eating chips & soda. I dined in the local pizza joint frequently. I never ate the school food. Back in the 60′s & 70′s it was pretty gruesome.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:21pmWho owns the meals provider and did he have a lobbyist in Washington with the ear of Michelle. Because whether the kids actually eat the lunch or not they still get paid a set fee. That is what this is all about collecting the fee for the “Connected” company(ies), because the set fee can be counted on and I would not be surprised that it is more than what food is actually consumed.
When you take away “Choice” you take away competition, you take away incentive to use the product you are pushing. And I thought that Progressives/Liberals were all about “Choice”???
Report Post »keepthefaith
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:42pmWhy do people just sit down and take this? WE ARE LOSING OUR FREEDOM PEOPLE!!!!
WAKE UP!!!
Report Post »RevPh
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 6:52pmI can certainly understand the concerns the principal has for the students nutritional health…who isn’t for healthy food for our kids? HOWEVER, what appalling arrogance to decide no one can send a lunch to school for THEIR child because some lunches don‘t meet the principal’s standards! I can’t control what kind of lunch other parents send to school…but I‘ll be darned if I’ll let someone else decide what my child eats. Who died and left her in charge?
Report Post »Action baby
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:09pmWhat if they get contaminated food…
The entire city of children die.
Sounds like Chinese tactics.
Report Post »nevadaracer
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:20pmMy question is whether or not the same policy applies to the administrators and teachers…Can they bring food from home or are they forced to eat the same fare as the students?
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:20pmYou have to LOVE government! Now only their goods are good enough! who says we aren’t a socialist state? Every body smile, now!
Report Post »exdem
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:28pmBLAZERS!!!
Report Post »Look up the Akshaya Patra Foundation , Mid Day Meal Scheme and Chicago schools Meals and Messages. This is not only feeding the kids but ensuring they recieve even more messages of the wonders of SOCIAL JUSTICE.
pajamash
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:29pm“All because the school wants to promote healthy choices.”
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Have you seen the crap they serve? It is NOT healthy!
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:32pmWhy don’t we just outlaw “civilians” from having babies? We’ll just let the Government tell us who can breed and then those babies could just be raised in government approved schools until they are old enough to go out into the world – of course they will require 24/7 communist immersion until then
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:33pm““While there is no formal policy, principals use common sense judgment based on their individual school environments,” Monique Bond wrote in an email. “In this case, this principal is encouraging the healthier choices and attempting to make an impact that extends beyond the classroom.”
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“The ban has had two effects. First, more government money funneled to the school lunch provider. And second, ironically, less students eating the meals. The Tribune explains the not-so-shocking details…”
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Is there a tie between Ms. Carmona and the lunch provider?
Real healthy for the kids to go without a meal there Ms. Carmona!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:38pmThat’s right kids, no more pb&J sandwiches for you, so sit down and eat your yummy, government approved Soylent Green like good little drones.
Report Post »hardteachings
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:47pmregarding the school lunch program in general:
Report Post »we the people subsidize the cost of these programs ostensibly to provide financial relief
for those families who cannot afford to pay for a full-price lunch at school; but…
if a family is that poor they probably qualify for food stamps and therefore could send
their kids to school with a ‘home-made’ lunch like my folks did fifty years ago.
vivrobbins
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:48pmIt is about CONTROL. f
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:53pmNothing but a control and money scam. Too many kids are bringing their lunches because the price in the cafaterias is too high. This way the choice is pay our price for our garbage or go hungry. Since when is a pizza healthier than a home made cheese sandwich? How about those greasy corn dogs healthier than a ham sandwich? what will kids dowhen they don’t like the food served? Go hungry. This country is going to he!! in a hurry. When will the stupid people wake up? when it is a day late and we are a dollar short.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:56pmLiberals know what’s best. Now everyone sit down and eat your tofu!
Report Post »martyw
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 8:01pmand you had to tell us THAT???? dang your on the ball
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 8:13pmFace it – Chicago parents are just dumb to pack their kids a meal. They did elect Deadfish.
Report Post »grannyjojo
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 8:24pmIf they tried to implement this where my kids went to school or where my grandchildren go to school I would find myself a lawyer and take it all the way to the supreme court. No blankety blankety way someone is going to tell me how to feed my babies…..at least not unless they want my foot up their rear end. This stuff has become about as ludicrous as it gets!
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 8:30pmyou know i worked in many school cafaterias, back in 1990 through 2000. we were told to accept anyones application for free or reduced lunch, we were told that if we had our ratio up, we (the school district) would be able to obtain more benefits, meaning more federal funding for the poor unfortunates who really need it. then they started having a food program during the summer for lunch and we were told just to feed whoever showed up, don’t even ask about if they were eligible, just feed them.
you want to blame someone for the increase in diabetes in our country, look at the schools. our little soldiers (our children) have been brought up to believe that going to school is important and they have the best teachers to teach them how to behave, how to learn and how to eat. mothers, fathers you are giving an early death to your children, your heirs will probably die before you do. wake up.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 8:35pmWhat the hell is going in this country, oh yea, Democrats are in control in Chicago. Vote these idiots out of office in 2012.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 8:45pm“It’s milk versus a Coke.”
What a great nutritionist we have here! OOOH, gotta love that pasteurized, homogenized, cow’s milk, which many doctors believe are at the origin of food allergy-related health and behavioral problems. Some even link habitual consumption of homogenized cow’s milk with osteoporosis later on in life.
If your kids can’t bring their own lunches, the school should be held responsible for any ensuing health problems. With no statute of limitations.
Report Post »jayjayson
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:29pmI remeber the school system down here doing the same thing when I was in high school. They found that the salad bar was get twice as much business as the other chioces combined. They closed it and tryed to stop home lunches. There were protests and the students orgainized. We had non-eat-ins. The school Admin then took five leaders of the protest and made examples of them. In the end the only result was that less kids paid for a school lunch and more of us just left during lunch (which was against the rules.) So by trying to get us to eat better, they just made us respect them less.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:48pmAhh, Illinois,,,particularly Chicago,,,,seems to be at the forefront lately showing what the socialists feel about what’s proper.’ Wait,,,,didn’t Obama come from …..Illinois? I‘m sure it’s just a ‘coincidence.’
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:50pmIt’s all about MONEY!
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:11pmNudge…
Report Post »Physicist_In_Training
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:14pmThank goodness Chicago finally took this initiative! Hopefully they’ll move on to banning home lunches at home, too. Who knows what kind of slop parents are feeding their kids in the mornings and evenings? Every child should eat government-approved cafeteria food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. (Sarcasm intended)
Report Post »Blazergirl
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:21pmI want My country Back!!! This is just blatantly Communism. Chicago thugs. Good thing I don’t live there. I would be home schooling.
Report Post »getalong
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:27pmSo let me get this straight….They ban parents from preparing their own child‘s lunches so that they can force the children to buy the school lunches so that the school can make more money for the food distributer and get more taxpayer’s money by adding more children to tax-subsidy lunches? This is Progressive insanity at its best because it involves children, lifestyle regulations and tax-payer’s money! It is comforting to know that, as the principal of the school stated, “alot of schools are doing this…”
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:17amWhat’s interesting about this is that those who get the “free” lunches must qualify–and you have to be dirt poor to qualify. This is just putting money in the pocket of the provider and the government while shifting the burden to the middle class. I remember school lunches being more expensive than my mother packing my lunch–so she packed lunches. We were not wealthy–but too wealthy according to the government!
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 3:32amGETALONG–thanks. How soon we forget when speaking of “health” and children. It’s all about the money–money and power through money. Health? Really? Homogenized milk for the homogenization of our children. Mediocre meals for mediocre minds.
Report Post »imreddog
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:46amThere is an epidemic of politicians that think that they have the right to run every aspect of our lives. IT IS WAY PAST TIME TO PUT THESE ARROGANT BA$TARD$ ON THE STREETS!
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:55amimreddog
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:46am
“IT IS WAY PAST TIME TO PUT THESE ARROGANT BA$TARD$ ON THE STREETS!”
Well put, my thoughts exactly. What would really put a stop to this budget crises is a good old fashion TAX REVOLT. Everybody just stop paying and them where to go.
Report Post »thale0530
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:32amI’m sorry, but when did it become the schools responsibility to tell us parents what our kids can and can’t eat? They should focus more on educating our children and not so much on our kids diets. Since they want to control what they eat, maybe they should start providing our kids health coverage since some of us can’t afford what our employers offer. That’ll be next, it fits right in with their socialist views.
Report Post »MG-42
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:52pmAnother MOO-Chelle taking away of freedoms! Get the government the hell out of our lives! We can decide what we need or want to eat! This is wrong & unconstitutional!
Report Post »UP, CHUCK!
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:33pmThe nanny state is out of control
Report Post »they really make me want to vomit mold
right in their face
that’s the place
for their moronic mindset, a total disgrace
HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 3:36pmEating properly begins at home. Proper diet and life style choices are set in the home. With that said if you’re eating a free meal on my dollar, I’m all for mandating that it be healthy. If you want to pack a lunch (which would cost MORE than a free public lunch) then I think the state needs to say out. Its a public school that HAS to admit all students, regardless of religion, sex, or ethnicity. Do you think they take into account vegan, Kosher, Kitnyos, Halal?
Report Post »dayofreckoning
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:18pmHere in Virginia, the school system gets money per free lunch or per free breakfast. The cafeteria makes sure that every child on free lunch eats and even packs a free bag lunch for field trips. No one cares if it is eaten or thrown in the trash. They only care that they get a total of free lunches to be reembursed by the federal government.
Report Post »AND, the cafeteria workers outright encourage students to purchase extra sweets and chips because that money helps pay the salary of the cafeteria workers.
Corruptgovernment
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:43pmRobert Walker,
former chair of PepsiCo and
Proctor & Gamble on water:
Water is a gift of nature.
Report Post »Its delivery is not.
It must be priced
to insure it is used sustainably.
PrfctlyFrank
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:54pmThis one is serious!! This is more than “nanny state,” behavior, this is tyranny!! They are telling children what to eat?? They are telling parents what their children will eat?? In taxpayer supported schools and they‘ve been doing it for 6 years and we’re just now hearing about it?? WHERE’S THE FRIGGIN OUTRAGE?? I have plenty and if I had standing I would have this moronic and very dangerous policy in court and halted immediately..
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:11pmIn Soviet America, lunch chooses you!
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:12pmI wonder how much of a profit margin the school makes off of their crappy lunches?
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:17pmAha! Chartwells is gonna make out like bandits with this home-lunch ban.
Our school contracted with Chartwells. Its effing terrible. My freshman year of college, I lost a bunch of weight because I could only stomach one Chartwells meal a day.
Chartwells also has a monopoly over catering on campus. If you want to have your event catered by, say, Pizza Hut, you have to pay Chartwells a kickback or they won’t let you serve the food. Its infuriating. Especially if you hate TERRIBLE food.
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