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.
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.
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.
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.