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Schools can have reasonable, relatively specific guidelines on recommended lunch items, and parents could get a letter from school for not following them, but it is patently absurd for teachers to take away stuff they feel are not healthy. Anything in moderation is usually fine, and many teachers have shown to be ignorant about nutrition.
But why the hell would you give your kid (repeatedly apparently) friggin' slim jims? Do you want her to get a colon cancer at the ripe age of 9?
Mick
Strange to have these two sentences from the same poster.
And where did you read that is was repeatedly??
I hope you do know how absurd that last sentence is?
And I say good for the schools. And Im not the least bit liberal. These fat slobs are going to cost our entitlement programs and all of us more and more and more unless its controlled soon. You should see the projections in the out years.
And I say good for the schools. And Im not the least bit liberal. These fat slobs are going to cost our entitlement programs and all of us more and more and more unless its controlled soon. You should see the projections in the out years.
The UK's entitlement programs don't cost us American taxpayers a dime.
And I say good for the schools. And Im not the least bit liberal. These fat slobs are going to cost our entitlement programs and all of us more and more and more unless its controlled soon. You should see the projections in the out years.
Why should the school/teachers be able to say "What you brought for your child is unhealthy, we're going to TAKE IT?" That is 100% wrong. So what if a student shows up to school with a Slim Jim? Or Big Mac, for that matter? Back when I was in elementary school (1998-2004) no one would have dared thought "It's okay to take students' packed lunches." I got McDonalds a couple of times, I think during my time in elementary school they introduced a policy of no lunches brought from off campus. Heck, by high school (2007-2011) some of my friends went off campus and got McDonalds occasionally (around 2010-2011). They had a dual enrollment college class (I wasn't in it, so I missed out on the Mickey D's... and I didn't have a car until May 2012). The best way to combat this "nanny school" trend is to go back to the past. About 1995 ought to be fine, and stay there. Let the parents eat with their kids in elementary school and bring in McDonalds if they want to. Let the high schoolers with cars go off campus and eat. And for heck's sake DO NOT ALLOW SCHOOLS TO TAKE FOOD FROM STUDENTS THAT THEY DEEM "UNHEALTHY"!
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