Silly parents. You couldn’t possibly know what’s good for your kids.
When I was a kid, my mom would pack our lunches before sending us off to school. Not every day, but a vast majority of the time. She wanted us to have the healthiest food possible when we weren’t at home, and she couldn’t always count on our schools to provide that for us.
I can just imagine how my parents would have reacted if I had come home with a note from school like the one that parents received recently from a Richmond, Virginia, school district. The note from the school board informed parents that from now on, if they wanted to have their kids eat lunches that were prepared at home instead of in the school cafeteria, they would have to provide a doctor’s note explaining why.
I wish I could say I was surprised by this latest attempt by our government to control us, but I wasn’t. Actually, I’m surprised they waited this long to stick their noses in this aspect of our lives. But assuming that it was coming doesn’t make it any easier to stomach. What they’re doing is telling parents that they have to pay for a doctor’s visit in order to give their kids nutritional food to eat for lunch at school rather than the GMO-laden, preservative-filled, deep-fried, fattening foods often served up by our public schools.
But you know what? Even if the schools served fresh fruits and vegetables to the kids every day and I wanted my kid to eat a sandwich and a cookie, I should have the right to do that without a doctor’s note. It should be my right as a parent to feed my kids whatever I want to feed them without governmental interference.
Of course, this isn’t really about food at all. It’s just more of the same garbage that the government continues to dish out and spoon-feed us almost every day. It’s all about controlling people. They want to control what you say and do, where and when you go somewhere, and who you communicate with. It’s all part of their never-ending attack on individual rights.
How would you respond if a school sent home a note such as that with your child or grandchild? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this.
I home school my child and would be highly offended by this action. However, I question the truth behind this. Has anyone actually sen this letter or action in writing? I found this info on Snopes.com. http://www.snopes.com/politics/education/lunchban.asp
I would give my kids a home packed lunch EVERY day.
I would NOT get a doctor’s note.
I would NOT pay for any school lunches.
I would write, call, Facebook etc. all school board members.
I would take legal action. I may be a bit naive, but I still believe in our constitutional rights!
Let’s all chip in and buy each member of our local school board, as well as our state and federal representatives a cement block with a piece of paper with a large red dot on it. Ask each one of them to firmly bang their head on the block until they figure out what basic sense is. Free replacement blocks should made available as most of these people will break multiple blocks before anything sinks in.
I never could understand how or why it is that any and all school districts have the power and authority to tell the parents what they can and can not do when it comes to public education. With all the BS that these mental midgets, that run the school districts, get away with is beyond my comprehension. I just can’t understand how these school district authorities can thumb their noses at common sense or the laws of not only their County and State; but, the Federal government as well.
For years these educators cry out for funds proclaiming poverty when in fact they Hoard school funds, equipment, and supplies while Good Teachers leave the profession because of unfair politics and going broke for having to supply their own classes out of their own pockets.
Now these mental midgets want to stop the kids from bring their lunches from home. Well, how else are you going to get the kids to support the piss poor nutritional food programs that these school districts seem to have. Have you ever seen their cafeterias? They are decked out with all the newest and up to date equipment. Any kitchen would be envious of having such a kitchen; yet, this equipment is rarely ever used. To me this is a terrible waste of my tax dollars, a sin if you will.
I suggest that these so called educators get their noses out of my business and stick their noses back in their books and start teaching my kids how to read, write and to do their mathematics. Don’t try and be fancy with all this new BS. Give them a foundation they can use and build upon that with any new stuff. My grandchildren can’t do math with out a calculator. I had to teach them how to add and subtract, how to multiply and divide and to see the short cuts are in basic math and they are only 7 and 6 years old. According to their school, my grandchildren are two grades ahead of the rest of the class. Imagine that, sounds like someone isn’t doing his or her job correctly. Maybe they are in the cafeteria eating the precooked and packaged food(s), or stealing the snakes given to the kids. Any way you slice it – it is pathetic, a national shame.
If I had kids going to school and the school told me that my kids are not to eat food from home, then I would make it a point to make sure that I go to school and hand carry their lunches with me and make sure that they receive their make at home school lunches.
Don’t be the silent majority, be the out spoken minority and do something about it. Say something about it to the people that are trying to dictate how they are going to run their school district. After all you are the people that truly run the school district. You dictate to them what you want not what they want for you and your kids.
Here is an after thought – – – lets supply these schools with Food4Patriots. Its prepackage with a twist, its nutritional and tastes good and cost almost as the food they serve our kids now. How about it Frank, are you in?
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You all should live here in Commiefornia! I’ll have to see if I can get hold of the “list” of approved foods for snacks/lunches that a local school/daycare facility sent home for my granddaughter(who’s an RN) to fix for her kids each day. Because of the possible allergies of the other kids in class, she can’t include anything like peanut butter or anything that may have peanut dust in it ’cause it may send another kid to the hospital. That’s just a “for instance”. That’s how bad it’s gotten out here.
PS Someone ought to nuke Monsanto…..just sayin’!
Perhaps the school should ask themselves, why are not our parents sharp on nutrition, and consider improving the health cirruculum. Then ask for comments from parents about the price and good points and bad points of the districts lunches.
I have talked with nutrition majors at our local university and I was impressed by the amount of biochemistry they get but also impressed by how little real nutrition knowledge they are taught. I doubt that the PHDs that teach the biochemistry have made much of a connection between the theory and practical application of the theory. They are also probably handicapped by a worldview of evolution that does not give them a framework for their thinking to be able to discover a big picture of how to discover practical nutrition knowledge, and also probably discount the historical experience of of the worlds cultures nutrition rules. I am reasonably sure they are not used to thinking about the differences things like pesticides and herbicides and GMOs make to change the value of the standard diets of the past.
My father had a firm rule that we could not eat corn-on-the-cob without also eating bread. For years, I puzzled about the reason. If I asked every doctor and nutritionist in the country, 99% would say the rule is bogus, or came from superstition. My father spent his teenage years away from home during the depression, working on farms becasue there was not emough money for him to eat at home.
So that rule was based on practical considerations. Have fun asking doctors this question and you will realize how unprepared they are to dictate the diet of a family that is low income.
This is not new. 15 years ago I had a teacher take my sons snak away from him and threw it in the trash. I politely went to the school also in Richmond, Virginia and told her that when she purchased my groceries she could tell me what to send with my kid to eat. Have you seen the greasy pizza that they serve the kids for lunch three days a week as an option. They serve pre-packaged foods anymore filled with all the harmful additives that we try to keep AWAY from our children. So all I can say if you find yourself in this position is to speak up. I haven’t had any more problems with my children or my grandchildren as of today that is!
I’m sorry, but you can’t print what I would have to say to the School.
Michelle Obama is not a nutritionist, she’s a liar, I mean lawyer. I am the mother of two extremely Ill children, their diets are extremely important for maintaining good health. School lunch is a joke. Fat, salt, Gluten, steroids, hormones, antibiotics and the list goes on and on. When Obama girl first put her nose where it didn’t belong she starved the kids. My oldest came home telling me that the portions were smaller and the next thing she was telling me the kids were falling asleep in school, two months later , Obama girl changed the policies again. Obama’s need to experiment on their own children and stay away from mine. Our children are not animals. I suggest you ask if the teachers are eating the same toxic food or how about if the school board is? And then ask them why not? And where is your note? I want to see it. I pay taxes so you have a job,
Kelli
All I can say is HOMESCHOOL!! If the public schools lose more and more students to parents who care and are fed up, they’ll either change their policies or homeschooling will be made illegal. Probably won’t be long before that happens anyway.
This is actually very simple. The lunch goes to school with a note inside. The note reads as follows: if this lunch is taken from my child theft, assalt and child endangerement charges will be filed against the person and school that removes it from my child for depriving them of their normal lunch . My child would have instuctions to hand over the lunch under protest and not eat anything and ask to call home. This is called playing chicken on a chess board. Their move.
Living i a sparsely populated state in the Southwest I would suggest over ruling out the school board, If you take care of the matter locally, then county wide, then state wide…. just maybe the state will tell the feds where to go ( hint: not on vacation). If ANYONE tries to tell me how to rear my child you will have a fight on your hands. God gave each of us the responsibilities as parents to do what is best for our children NOT the government’s children. Stand up in numbers and be counted! May our politicians be freeze in hell before we give our rights as parents. Seize the day.
Very well written. the bottom line is control. How much will the dumbed-down average American willing to accept? School children – one of the testing grounds for government domination. What’s wrong with the gullible, dumbed-down, liberal population?
Although not a physician, I hold an academic doctorate. I would most certainly certify my child’s home made lunch as appropriate, even if I sent the kid in with boiled buttocks on gluten-loaded white bread!
Lock Step or Step aside, for you don’t know how to raise your child!
DROP DEAD AND MIND YOUR OWN DAM BUSSINESS.
O u want be nice like the leftys and the rest of them.well were we nice to King goerge were we nice in ww1 to the kiaser willham when he tryed push us around and tell us what to do. By telling who to sell ammo.
TO and not to. Or Hilter when he tryed to do the some as the other to. So tell me is it ok for washington to push us around and tell us what to do and order us around all the time or when the mood strkes them andnot ok for foreign goverments to try and push us around.so tell me what’s the deffrences. I do not see any deffrinces. So tell me is there a deffrences befor you tell me to softin my statment about the u.s. Goverment telling us what to feed our kids..End.Greg A. Warren.ps note that in singed my full name unlike the person whum told me to softin my remark..Greg A. Warre [email protected]
My first response to the school is first prove to me that the food contains GMO products, has never been exposed to round-up or any related products. Provide the names and location of the farms producing these meals. Next I would demand the removal of the school board for not acting in the best interest of my children. Kids this generation suffer from many illnesses that are managed with special diets. Unless this school district is paying for quality dietitians to work with each child they aren’t qualified to run this program.
. In the meantime this school district would be publicly petitioned to reimburse both the parents and the insurance companies or state for the Dr visit and note.(often an extra $15-?) For the note itself
I would be inclined as a protest to deliver my child’s lunch to them in the lunchroom at lunchtime every day, and make it very public if i’m told I can’t join my child for lunch.
Rules like this are the easiest to get changed. All it takes is the appearance of a group of vocal parents to the Principal’s office (to confirm where the order originated) and then to that source for action. Mistaken decisions in most other categories are much harder to change. Local decisions are easiest.
Very simple…if I got that note from the school board I would send my children to school with the meal I prepared them & explicit instructions not to eat any other food at school. Good grief it’s probably poison anyway. Then if there was a problem resulting from that then my children would no longer go to a school in the district overseen by that board. I absolutely will not tolerate a school board or a doctor telling me what to feed my children. Doctors are NOT trained in nutrition, they are trained in medicine & surgery. And good heavens! I would keel over if I looked in the kitchen cabinets of these school board people. Horrid.
I would first have a fit in my own home and then like someone else said I would be at the very next school board meeting. However I would have talked to as many parents as I could so that they would show up at the same meeting and every meeting until that stupid and dangerous rule was stopped. I live in VA and it concerns my greatly even frightens me.
Nancy Pelosi pushed for the wind towers becausse she had stocks in it & she made a fortune a couple times over. Does Michelle Obama have stock in the carcinagenic foods our children are eating because the phamaceutical companies will gain pocketfuls because of the children’s need of meds in a few years. Why isn’t our president impeached? We are just talking, but no action. Save our children from these political monsters
A comment to Jessica. You mentioned Hitlers plan. That is exactly what the gov’t is doing. They are following hitlers plan for taking over the US. Research hitlers plan and you can see what’s happening, and will happen in the US.
Government intervention can be good when it’s motives are altruistic but in this case it is Not. Currently, under this administration, in my opinion it will be causing more damage than healing. Altruistic actions will come from a different administration run by a Meritocracy and not under what we have now. We must all understand that we do not want government intervention because that intervention is hurting our pockets and our future generations health. We must understand that under a Meritocracy that will all change. We all will want government intervention because as a society only the brightest, most intelligent will be leading the way not like how we have now, which is only the most bought out taking charge and action.
America’s best and brightest do NOT work for government. Unfortunately, those who work for government THINK they are America’s best and brightest.
I complete clean out in Washington DC is way over due.
jessica,
You hit the nail right on the head. When the government plans on and for state control what else would you expect to see happening? If it’s not already too late, we need to take our country back…
The public school in our rural area of Indiana is somewhat conservative, though low-key. Although small, student performance is very high and costs are among the state’s lowest. When four of our children went some years ago the most irritating regulation concerned absence due to illness. The rule was that a doctor’s note was required to allow homework to be accepted. This required an unnecessary office visit that cost money and required a miserable child to brave the weather. We homeschooled our last child to escape one-size-fits-none school policies. The point: Even small conservative schools can be irrational and unresponsive to parental concerns.
They just want to ensure our kids are poisoned properly from an early age. Our govt has completedly lost its mind and its purpose. Time to take our country back from the criminals.
Thank you for that statement, that is exactly what they are doing
It is difficult to make your voice heard in washington. Luckily the local school boards are much more accessible units of government. If I lived in Richond, I would be at the next school board meeting with as many angry parents as I could muster to let them know exactly what we thought of that sort of interference.
You said it right
This type of government horse s%#@ makes me sick to my stomach . ( no pun intended ) . If one person stands up to fight back, they’ll take your kids from you and call it abuse. It will need a group of people like at the Nevada ranch to stand together in Virginia to stop this foolishness. STAND STRONG, LIVE STRONG. God Bless America. Some of us don’t want You kicked out of any part of our country Lord.
Parents were the custodians of children since the dawn of time- it’s the way God designed it! Any parent that allows govt to interfere with this human right is failing to recognize the rights of families & natural authority that is God given; the pursuit of life. Parentless children can’t be expected to care about aged parents…soon their allegiance might be to the very govt that stole them away. This was Hitler’s plan & it helped him greatly. What does our govt do for families- the family unit? Nothing. Nada. Zero.