"Inadequate School Lunches..."

[Anaxogoras]

Yeah, we hate to admit it, but we Americans could learn a lot from the French about how to eat well...and I'm not talking about fancy dinners.  I also have to praise the French for being the only European country (government) to encourage the afternoon nap!

[kennyhayes]

I am in 7th grade now just today i looked on the check out sign list 17 people out reasons all but 2 were sick almost all at the same time due to school lunch most likely or the fact that there been 6 bomb threats this year.

[eskimo2]

I am in 7th grade now just today i looked on the check out sign list 17 people out reasons all but 2 were sick almost all at the same time due to school lunch most likely or the fact that there been 6 bomb threats this year.

Do you know how hard it is to read what you just wrote?
Here, have a few free periods:
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[Meatwad]

 

[Fugita]

I am in 7th grade now just today i looked on the check out sign list 17 people out reasons all but 2 were sick almost all at the same time due to school lunch most likely or the fact that there been 6 bomb threats this year.

And I suspect you will have an opportunity to get more familiar with the 7th grade next year.

[RAIDER14]

 

Only a fraction of the money funded ever gets to where its supposed to be applied to

Have any proof for your claim?

I do the proof is the Dallas Independent School District

[Skyeho]

Here in NC the school cafeteria's budget is completely seperate from the school's budget.  So at the school level (not the state wide funding level) they cannot just take money from the lunch budget for other expenditures in the school.  I'm fairly certain the system is similar in many states.

Free school lunches are the biggest fraud scams for some of the less fortunate school districts.  Big controversy in the Dallas-FT. Worth area.

[Enker]

Back in the 60's I was introduced to tater tot's by my school...I have been grateful ever since.

shamus

mmmm, tater-tots... I once snuck a bunch of tots to my math class and ate them napoleon dynamite style. Plus I was voted the class's Napoleon Dynamite (they didn't know I had snuck in the tots)

However, School lunches are pains to get because of the lines and all, but worst, they take away from my Aces High money!

[bongaroo]

I do the proof is the Dallas Independent School District

Something to substantiate your "proof".  The name of the school district isn't proof of anything.

[DREDIOCK]

That one child may have such a horrible allergy that simply opening the peanut butter and jelly sandwich a couple dozen feet away could start a reaction.

So would it be fair to tell that child to not come to public school and become an outcast homeschooler or request the other students to refrain from peanut butter?

YEP. You dont inconvienience an entire population for the sake of 1 or 2

I talked about this very subject at length with the mother of the two children mentioned.
She is in complete agreement. In fact. she said it first.
And her kids ARE highly vulnerable just as you say.
Anytime she buys something new she actually has to call the manufacturer to make sure it doesnt contain any of the ingredients her kids arre allergic to.
she tells me its amazing the things food producers add dairy and meat by products to.
Her food bill costs an absolute fortune.

what about the kid. who that's all they are willing to eat for lunch? (and there are quite a few of those out there also)
He or she should just go hungry?
Are our kids not to eat peanut butter at home because they might bring some of the residue to school with them?

No. you make provisions for those few children to eat separately from the rest of the population.



Look at it from both sides before getting all ornery over it.  When most children realize whats going on they would rather have thier friend around and leave the PB&J at home.

In response to your funding issues I have to ask:  How many school lunch programs have you run?  Or better, how many cafeteria's have you actively worked in?

My mother is a Child Nutrion specialist, she runs the program for Asheville City Schools and before that helped run the lunch programs for Buncombe County Schools.  I've often discussed her jobs and work.  I helped run the meals at the camp for a few summers, 300-400 people fed in a couple hours daily.  Ordering and stocking the supplies has furthered my understanding of how the process works.

So where does your knowledge of school lunches come?  Just reckonings?

Have any proof for your claim?

I have looked at it from both sides.
Like I said. I feel badly for the kids. but. You make special provisions for the kid. You dont inconvenience an entire school population because of one or two kids.
By and large I just throw money on my kids lunch account and let her just buy her food at school.
though lately to save money I've been making her lunch more often. mostly its lunchmeat. But sometimes it is peanut butter.

The school did the thing that makes more sense.
The have a special area set aside for those children with special requirements.
Because it is simply unrealistic to protect against everything in the typically common area

On lunch programs. no I dont have experience on school lunches.

But all you have to do is watch how politics works in this state to see the obvious.
an example was just talked about on the radio here yesterday. Only about state workers.
 Our emperor..err I mean govorner cut state jobs by 3% to save money.
Yet state wages on average rose something like 8%.
One would think that your every day state worker got themselves a nice above 6% inflation pay raise.
Nope.
When looked at closer it was revealed that the positions making over 100K per year got an 11% increase. (almost twice the rate of inflation)

On another front.
Our King...err I mean governor is proposing our own economic stimulus plan and bailout package to "Help with home forclosures"
Yet on closer examination it is only going to be applied to 3% of foreclosures.

Our lord and master err I mean governor says "We cannot stand by idly and do nothing"

This is the same person. the same wall street expert who claimed he saw "nothing  to indicate" the economy was in trouble at the same time the markets were crashing and the bailouts were being proposed in Washington.

All you need to do is look at our avid districts Newark, Camden etc and see the money that is poured into those areas school systems with no improvments made. Then look at some of the salaries being paid to political buddies to figure our whats going on.



Skim milk is just milk flavored water, but just like quitting cigarettes, it sucked at first but is much healthier in the long run.  Now 2% and whole milk tastes too thick for me.  Personal tastes.

I don't drink cheap american beer (PBR, Bud, Busch, etc.) for the taste by any means.  But the drunk part is fun for us poor s.o.b.'s

Ehh least we agree on something LOL

[john9001]

I also have to praise the French for being the only European country (government) to encourage the afternoon nap!

Spain and Italy also.