Food police reject preschoolers lunch. You'll eat nuggets!

[cantthinkofanything]

In short, the child took a lunch of " A turkey and cheese sandwich on whole wheat bread with a side of a banana, potato chips, and apple juice." But since she didn't have any fucking vegetables, they made her buy a full meal from the cafeteria but all she ate was the chicken nuggets. I knew there were guidelines in place but I had no idea they were enforcable to that point. "The Department of Health and Human Services requires students to eat lunches that consist of meat, milk, grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables." WTF

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2101354/Food-police-reject-preschoolers-homemade-lunch--favour-chicken-nuggets.html#ixzz1mT48XFmo

EDIT: To clarify, I don't have any problem having guidelines as to what the school offers. But to actually "require" them to eat specific foods and to then to actually enforce the rules and in process override the parents rights. And surely the food the cafeteria is serving is not organic or non GMA food or BPA free or whatever.

[CosmicCowboy]

wow

and CHICKEN NUGGETS of all the industrialized shit food, too...

[cantthinkofanything]

wow

and CHICKEN NUGGETS of all the industrialized shit food, too...

Yeah. The point wasn't to make her eat the nuggets. They wanted her to eat the veggies from the school meal. But the nuggets were all she ate.

WELL DONE GOVERNMENT!

[JoeChalupa]

That is wrong, IMHO. If I want to send my kids with bean & cheese tacos and barbacoa tacos for lunch I should have the right to do so. Damn liberals.

[Oh, Gee!!]

well North Carolina is the bastion of big-gov't liberalism

[cheguevara]

just another day in this police state of ours

[Blake]

Why didn't they just confiscate the chips? Isolated weird incident, imo.

I do know from personal experience that if you (accidentally) get $10 behind on the school cafeteria bill here that they feed your kid a simple cheese sandwich, apple and milk.

[mercos]

Big time government over reach. Schools should only offer healthy foods, but they have no right to dictate what a parent sends their kid to school with. Sad thing is the meal the kid brought was healthier than what the school was offering...

[Nbadan]

Some administrator was having a bad day and made a bad decision, but leave it to 'I hate conspiracies, but the government is out to get us' crowd to over-react...

[SA210]

Morons

[ChumpDumper]

How do you require a kid to eat anything?

[Wild Cobra]

Something is funny about the enforcement here. The rules cited (http://ncchildcare.dhhs.state.nc.us/pdf_forms/center_chp9.pdf) are stupid, but they do say:


When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements outlined in the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements.

They were required to give the child veggies. not make her have their lunch.

I think the parents should sue.

[z0sa]

just send pizza next time

[Oh, Gee!!]

or just reprimand (possibly fire) the cafeteria worker who misconstrued/misapplied the "nutritional requirement" rule, and reimburse mom the $1.25.

[cantthinkofanything]

Another incident, same school



When Jazlyn said she didn’t eat what her mother had made her, Zambrano went to her teacher and demanded to know what happened. She said the teacher told her an official had come through that day to inspect students’ lunches and that those who were lacking certain food groups were sent to the cafeteria. After she received her cafeteria food, the teacher told Zambrano, Jazlyn was told to put her homemade lunch back in her lunchbox and set it on the floor.


WTF China?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/exclusive-2nd-n-c-mother-says-daughters-school-lunch-replaced-for-not-being-healthy-enough/

[Wild Cobra]

Damn liberal authoritarians.

[Blake]

Damn liberal authoritarians.

Who exactly is a damn liberal authoritarian?

Need a name please.

[Wild Cobra]

Who exactly is a damn liberal authoritarian?

Need a name please.

Most schools have liberal people running them. The regulation they are going by is being used wrong. Typical liberal enforcement if you ask me.

[EVAY]

well North Carolina is the bastion of big-gov't liberalism

I was just about to say that when I read your quote.

Last I checked, liberals had been run out of North Carolina on
a rail.

Besides, weren't the chips potato chips? Doesn't that count as a veggie?
At least as much as nuggets count as meat?

[EVAY]

How do you require a kid to eat anything?

AS a grandparent of 6, I guarantee you I have never seen anyone force a child to eat anything in this world they didn't want to eat.

[Wild Cobra]

I was just about to say that when I read your quote.

Last I checked, liberals had been run our of North Carolina on
a rail.

Besides, weren't the chips potato chips? Doesn't that count as a veggie?
At least as much as nuggets count as meant?
I would think the chips would count as one, and the lettuce on the sandwich as the 2nd for the two veggie requirement. Even if it didn't, the regulation states the school will give the student what is missing from their lunch. Not replace the entire lunch.

[Blake]

Most schools have liberal people running them. The regulation they are going by is being used wrong. Typical liberal enforcement if you ask me.

No good. Need a name.

[Wild Cobra]

No good. Need a name.
LOL...

I'm not wasting my time on this issue in that way. If you don't see that as my opinion, then you need to understand what you read better. I did place facts of the regulation which is what should be focused on. I find it idiotic that who ever made the kids replace their lunch as stupid and authoritarian, and very strongly suspect a conservative would not have incorrectly interpreted the regulation.

[ChumpDumper]

LOL...

I'm not wasting my time on this issue in that way. If you don't see that as my opinion, then you need to understand what you read better. I did place facts of the regulation which is what should be focused on. I find it idiotic that who ever made the kids replace their lunch as stupid and authoritarian, and very strongly suspect a conservative would not have incorrectly interpreted the regulation.So you just made it up.

OK.

[Blake]

LOL...

I'm not wasting my time on this issue in that way. If you don't see that as my opinion, then you need to understand what you read better. I did place facts of the regulation which is what should be focused on. I find it idiotic that who ever made the kids replace their lunch as stupid and authoritarian, and very strongly suspect a conservative would not have incorrectly interpreted the regulation.

I know you won't waste any time backing up your over-generalizations.

It's who you are.

[Wild Cobra]

I know you won't waste any time backing up your over-generalizations.

It's who you are.
If I took the time for justifying all my statements to you guys....

My God. Who the fuck do you think you are for me to care?

[ChumpDumper]

If I took the time for justifying all my statements to you guys....

My God. Who the fuck do you think you are for me to care?Reasonable human beings who see through your bullshit.

[Blake]

If I took the time for justifying all my statements to you guys....

You do take the time to try to justify your stupid statements, and you still horribly fail.

But I didn't ask you to justify anything. I just asked for one name. One.


My God. Who the fuck do you think you are for me to care?

Who cares who the fuck I am for you to care?

I'm just asking for one name of one liberal.

If you don't have it, just say so. That way I can just call you an idiot and we can both be done with it.

[Wild Cobra]

You do take the time to try to justify your stupid statements, and you still horribly fail.

But I didn't ask you to justify anything. I just asked for one name. One.



Who cares who the fuck I am for you to care?

I'm just asking for one name of one liberal.

If you don't have it, just say so. That way I can just call you an idiot and we can both be done with it.
And if I come up with a name, you will just huff and puff some other way. I'm not looking it up. I already looked up the regulation. That's all that matters to me. Even if the person/people making the decisions were conservative. They were wrong.

[TeyshaBlue]

If you had even a single clue as to what you were talking about rather than let your fully symbiotic confirmation bias supply you with talking points, you would know that using the phrase "liberal authoritarians" is begging to be defined. That you cannot perform this simple task implies that there is very little thought to your labels.

And from an educator's perspective, you're fucking nuts.

[xrayzebra]

No problem, Obama and his bunch will handle the school lunch program in the next
term. They will just require parents buy the official government lunch, like they are
doing about the official government plan on health.

Well that is if the SCOUS says the obama care mandate is legal. Then Dear Leader
can require to you to buy anything they think is necessary for your well being or
for the good of Mother Earth.

[Wild Cobra]

No problem, Obama and his bunch will handle the school lunch program in the next
term. They will just require parents buy the official government lunch, like they are
doing about the official government plan on health.

Well that is if the SCOUS says the obama care mandate is legal. Then Dear Leader
can require to you to buy anything they think is necessary for your well being or
for the good of Mother Earth.
Hail Führer Obama...