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I work in a high school cafeteria, in a smaller, largely rural district. The kids here are given healthier options than I remember my oldest daughter having in the city school she attended before we moved here. You still have crap, granted - like chicken poppers, pizza, pierogies, nachos - but the kids are now able to have healthier alternatives like yogurt, a choice of homemade chili, homemade chicken noodle, or vegetable soup, a salad bar, etc. The whole wheat sandwich rolls are baked on premises. I subbed at the elementary school yesterday, and the lunch was a meatball sandwich on a school made whole wheat roll, baked potato wedges, celery sticks with low fat ranch dressing, and an apple half (a fresh apple, not canned fruit). These kids are monitored when they eat, and they are not permitted to buy ice cream or the junky extras until most of their tray is finished and their vegetables are eaten. But that kind of policing in a crowded, city school would not be realistic. Kids here still get recesses, as well, and they are allowed to REALLY PLAY.
Wow the anger here.....the hate I tell you the HATE!!!!!!!!!!!
Her kids, the democrats want to wipe your butt, since you don't know how to...but don't worry about your parents, they are laying on the couch collecting a check....
Glad that's going to be your child on the couch and not mine....
My mid-twenties child is off working and going to college full-time. LOL, round my house we work for graduate degrees, pay for them, and stand on our own two feet.
Sarah's comment about Michelle Obama is totally inappropriate and uncalled for, unless, that is, S. is running for president.
I don't think it is inappropriate. I think it is absolutely on target and I am not a Sarah Palin fan at all but she is right about the fact that the government should have zero say about what we should or shouldn't eat. It should be our own choice.
It might be nice if the government instead would control BIG FOOD and BIG AGRA's penchant for putting more and more additives in our foods and the genetic engineering of them.... which is what is killing us, rather than giving them the go ahead to do more and more of it.
I don't think it is inappropriate. I think it is absolutely on target and I am not a Sarah Palin fan at all but she is right about the fact that the government should have zero say about what we should or shouldn't eat. It should be our own choice.
It might be nice if the government instead would control BIG FOOD and BIG AGRA's penchant for putting more and more additives in our foods and the genetic engineering of them.... which is what is killing us, rather than giving them the go ahead to do more and more of it.
Do you feel that way about food stamps, too? I've seen several threads suggesting limiting what people can buy to healthy food, and some posts way over the top, even for "healthy" food. Why should the govt. not have standards for meals it provides?
My mid-twenties child is off working and going to college full-time. LOL, round my house we work for graduate degrees, pay for them, and stand on our own two feet.
Good for you....my son is 10, his college is already paid for...up to and beyond a doctorate if he wants....(this is because of working hard on my part and a very fortunate life).
I don't think it is inappropriate. I think it is absolutely on target and I am not a Sarah Palin fan at all but she is right about the fact that the government should have zero say about what we should or shouldn't eat. It should be our own choice.
It might be nice if the government instead would control BIG FOOD and BIG AGRA's penchant for putting more and more additives in our foods and the genetic engineering of them.... which is what is killing us, rather than giving them the go ahead to do more and more of it.
And it is still your choice. But if you go somewhere and expect to be served a meal you don't get unlimited choices of what to eat...even at the finest, most expensive resturant you are limited by the menu. Schools are not different. There are going to be limited choices no matter what so make them healthy choices. Nobody can seriously have a problem with that. NOBODY.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee took a moment on Tuesday to counter Sarah Palin's recent claim that Michelle Obama is out to rob children and parents of their rights to eat dessert.
"With all due respect to my colleague and friend Sarah Palin, I think she's misunderstood what Michelle Obama is trying to do," Huckabee said Tuesday during a radio appearance the "Curtis Sliwa Show. "Michelle Obama's not trying to tell people what to eat or not trying to force the government's desires on people," Huckabee said. "She's stating the obvious, that we do have an obesity problem in this country."
I think Palin has a way to go to top Michelles "we can't just leave it up to the parents" (to raise their own children) line.
You can't. There are a **** load of flat-out terrible parents. Now would you recommend turning these kids over to the state or spending a lot less $$$ to feed them right? I know people who've gotten heart surgery before they knew what a times table was. This is not sustainable, and at least Michelle Obama recognizes this.
You can't. There are a **** load of flat-out terrible parents. Now would you recommend turning these kids over to the state or spending a lot less $$$ to feed them right? I know people who've gotten heart surgery before they knew what a times table was. This is not sustainable, and at least Michelle Obama recognizes this.
That isn't even what Michelle meant. If you listen to the video in the link I posted, you will see that she says it's the parents' responsibility, but the schools NEED TO HELP! The RW won't tell you that; I just did.
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