1. The child wasn’t told she couldn’t eat her lunch. 2. The child was sent to the line to get a vegetable to supplement her lunch.3. It was the child’s choice to get some chicken nuggets and not eat her lunch. 4. Neither the child nor her parents were ever asked to pay for any of it.
You miss the point, sottwell. We don’t need the Federal Government interjecting itself into decisions to be made by the child and parents. Big Brother is alive and well but hopefully changes will be made.
We already homeschool for other reasons; this only adds to my list.
Probably one of my bigger items on the list is that institutionalized schooling forces students to learn at a certain rate of speed no matter how they learn or how fast they learn. Kids who excel at the work wind up bored. Kids that have to put more effort in to do the work fall behind.
Those who are saying this is an urban legend had best do some research. There is even a copy of the bill to the parent from the school district. There was also an apology issued to the mother from the USDA.
But who is the school board to say anything about what kids eat at school. They don’t know what the kid had for breakfast, what the kid will have for lunch, what snack they may have when they get home. Besides that you can’t give chicken nuggets to a vegetarian.
hawgowar over 12 years ago
Yep, kom und get yur state-sponsored food, komerade.
sottwell over 12 years ago
An urban legend in the making.
1. The child wasn’t told she couldn’t eat her lunch. 2. The child was sent to the line to get a vegetable to supplement her lunch.3. It was the child’s choice to get some chicken nuggets and not eat her lunch. 4. Neither the child nor her parents were ever asked to pay for any of it.
blackash2004-tree Premium Member over 12 years ago
You miss the point, sottwell. We don’t need the Federal Government interjecting itself into decisions to be made by the child and parents. Big Brother is alive and well but hopefully changes will be made.
Taste the air Premium Member over 12 years ago
Yes, this is an urban legend. Only in the mind of someone from the far right is this possible; in reality it’s not happening anywhere.
songsparrow over 12 years ago
This is no urban legend. This is real. Glad I’m in Canada. If it was my kid going through this, I’d be home schooling.
dshepard over 12 years ago
We already homeschool for other reasons; this only adds to my list.
Probably one of my bigger items on the list is that institutionalized schooling forces students to learn at a certain rate of speed no matter how they learn or how fast they learn. Kids who excel at the work wind up bored. Kids that have to put more effort in to do the work fall behind.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 12 years ago
Those who are saying this is an urban legend had best do some research. There is even a copy of the bill to the parent from the school district. There was also an apology issued to the mother from the USDA.
obeney2000 over 12 years ago
But who is the school board to say anything about what kids eat at school. They don’t know what the kid had for breakfast, what the kid will have for lunch, what snack they may have when they get home. Besides that you can’t give chicken nuggets to a vegetarian.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 12 years ago
Just what Zack needed. Chicken nuggets.
Kathy M T M Premium Member over 12 years ago
if your school does this and your kid won’t eat veggies- put a bag of plastic carrots in the lunchbox- same bag everyday… :-p
Chewiek9 over 12 years ago
Is Zack having a nightmare?
pam Miner over 12 years ago
The anti-lunch people got here Oh noes!
789coolcatlane over 12 years ago
Zack’s lunch was probably fine. The school just wants to make more money.
Tue Elung-Jensen over 12 years ago
Yeees, obviously the cafeterias food is better – nothing to do with boosthing the economy of the school :)
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 12 years ago
School lunch contains drugs to make the kids more docile and open to suggestion.