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 cannot understand where these rules come from. I was under the impression things like this had to go thru the House and Senate so who is making these stupid rules and decisions, and bypassing the House and Senate?. .
The Dear Leader’s boy-toy Michelle Michael Obama, that’s who.
ISN’T REPEATING SOMETHING THAT IS PROVEN TO BE A FAILURE A SURE SIGN OF STUPIDITY?????? The moooo-cow in the white house tried this and showed her stupidity and arrogance!!! you cannot TELL parents what to do with their children as long as there is no imminent danger!!! This MUST be a lib-tard move… ANOTHER attempt at taking control and removing our freedoms!!!! BACK OFF… MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!! PARENTS DO WHAT THEY CAN AND DO NOT WANT OR NEED YOUR INTERFERENCE!!!! WE HAVE AN ASS IN THE WHITE HOUSE…. DO THEY HAVE TO BE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES?????
No, it’s a sign of being a liberal. Oh, wait a minute, being a liberal and stupidity are the same thing.
There seems to be no end to what they want to control. Next they’ll be demanding to hold our equipment as we urinate.
Snopes-I believe about 50% of that place.As far as lunches go,I am 58 and SOMEHOW without government intervention and the FDA,I survived!!!! We drank from garden hoses(OMG!!!) All food we ate was grown and/or made HERE(with few exceptions) We promoted this “global” economy,yet were unprepared to compete in it.Now we buy Chinese garbage at Wal-Mart(and to be fair most other places) we eat imported food,most of which sits in containers and is never checked and the glorious FDA allows so many parts per million of rat feces,sawdust and whatever else they allow in processed foods.We never had to buy “organic” cause thats ALL WE HAD!!! Progress??? You decide
I don’t know how to say this without offending someone, but the government will run over you and abuse you as long as you let them. It’s like if you don’t want to be a door mat, then don’t allow people to walk over you. Fifty years ago if something like this happened, there would be throngs of people at the school board or in the streets calling out the politicians. Seems to me like the large majority of people today are deathly afraid of the government and just go along with anything they decide. Don’r you realize all these things they do are a test to see if you will follow along like sheep? If you do, then they know you are being conditioned to be obedient and will take a little more from you again, to see if you comply. Eventually they have taken over your life completely and you may be unhappy but you got what you deserved. Freedom isn’t free and that’s why we are losing our freedoms,because we don’t want to fight those who want to rule over us.
the school should get a Dr. note to serve he unhealthy food they feed our children.
Sad that the government feels they have to get involved, but to play the devil’s advocate, as a teacher myself, I was appalled at what many parents sent for their kids lunches… empty calorie non-nutritive processed junk food (many with zero fruits and veggies); then Lunchables came on the market which were marketed primarily to food stamp recipients as ‘feel-good’ propaganda for their deprived children. Fancy packaging and classy ads. but overpriced crap mostly pa[d for by taxpayers.
We need to educate, not mandate.
No matter what the parents choose to feed their kods, its stil the parents right to choose that! I agree that people feed theor kids garbage, but its not just “food stamp recipients”. My educayed, middle class friends mostly all feed their kids food that I would never feed my kids- processed, chemical/additive/preservative ridden, and GMO filled junk. But guess what? The fod provided at school that is so called “healthy” is exactly the same!
School lunches aim to reduce calories, spduim, but are over processed and filled with pesticides, additives, GMOs. I would never allow ly oids to eat that garbage either!
Bottom line- it is the parents right to pick what their children eat. What you as a teacher may deem healthy, may not be what I deem healthy, and it likely isnt since I refuse all GMOs. Even most “doctors” wont come out and aay GMOs are a health risk, yet parents have to go to them to get “approval” to send their kods a non GMO lunch. Thats a joke and a threat to our fredom!
The government needs to BUTT out of peoples loves and stop micromanaging everyone!
The note should be required for loose screws at the ballet box!
correction please:
for government and certainly not the government.
for government and certainly not the PEOPLE.
As the author sums up, this is not about school lunches, but government eroding our common sense rights away at every aspect of our lives. When another rule, code, or regulation is dreamed up and put forth for citizens to trip over does not mean it is in fact for everyones good or have anything to do with the best interest of all. Government is for the most part, for government and certainly not the government. Ever growing big government is only interested in in getting bigger done by controlling people and as much of the peoples income as possible for government growth.
I am very unfortunately stuck temporally in Citrus county, FL. This is a highly dictatorial and government controlled society dictating what you may have in, on, and about your property. Dictating you must pay government to connect to the government controlled water source at ones own expense and pay them for the chemically treated water regardless of the fact you have a perfectly good well producing excellent pure water must be caped off. We are taxed in Citrus county, FL as well for support of government controlled land fill whether we use it or not plus a “fee” if we do.
And my rant can go on and on, cwc
When we hit 4th grade, our mother stopped making our school lunches and delegated the responsibility to us. A peanut butter & jelly or baloney & cheese sandwich, an apple or orange, and a couple of cookies tossed into my lunchbox at the last minute before school was my lunch for several years, plus a quarter for the milk machine (although the quarter was also known to find its way to the ice cream or candy machine.) At that point, food was pretty much incidental, as I mostly looked forward to lunch period as free time and being with my friends.
At age 12 I developed an interest in cooking and baking, so my school lunches became fancier. Wisely, my parents did not resist my activities in the kitchen and desire to experiment with different foods & recipes.
I’m 67 now, no weight or other health problems, still like to cook, bake, and try new foods.
Hell !!! I’m 80 yrs old and in good health. Peanut butter and jully or peanut butter and honey every day for 12 yrs The wholt thing is stupid today
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
Here where I live if your child doesn’t have a fruit, vegetable, Bread/grain, protein and a dairy in their sack lunch, they make your child take one and send you the bill. I worked at a school in food service for 20 years and was shocked when they started this. I moved my son into a private school. I don’t have all the problems anymore. I use my income tax refund to pay for private school and it’s the best investment I ever made. If they had sent home a letter stating I needed a doctors note, I would have said I will be home schooling my son from now on.
It happened to me in Southern California. I still have the note 20 years after my kids have grown and had kids of their own. I was told that my kids were not to eat the food that I had provided them and that they had to eat what came from the cafeteria. They held a PTA meeting and I along with several parents provided the board with photographs of the pre-made food that they were serving our children and the unripe fruit, little apples and pears and oranges. We plopped the trays of food that we had bought that very day and told the board to eat this for them selves. The burger was still in its cellophane wrapper, the lettuce mix had not wilted or turned brown, which proved that something was added to it to prevent spoilage. I got up and told these knuckleheads that their school cafeteria is well equipped with the state of the art equipment and yet they only use the heating elements on the service line to keep the food warm while they microwave the food in the back. I showed the board what I provide for my kids, peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches with carrots and a fruit juice that I make myself. Then as a snack, I included 2 cookies or one roll up fruit bar.
The board said that the only way my kids were going to eat a lunch from home is if I brought it to school just before they go to lunch. I told them that they were full of crap.
The next day I went to court and got an injunction to allow me and any other parent to give their children their lunches before they start school and that these lunches were to be placed in the cool shaded part of the classroom. You see the boards argument was that the heat would affect the lunches and quite possibly get the children sick with food poison. The board said that they could not guarantee that our children’s lunches would be placed in a cool dark place out of the sun. (We all knew what that meant.)
Anyway, after getting the other parents to stand up against the PTA board as well as local news coverage; the board amended their demands and allowed the kids to bring their own lunches from home.
You see the school board wanted to maximize the amount of money for their cafeterias by forcing everyone to buy through them. What we did instead is forced the school board to utilize the school cafeteria and all its equipment to make from fresh ingredients our kids lunches.
So yes, these school boards think that they are above the law and common sense seems to elude them. They are only interested in the ole mighty dollar, even when it is against the best interest of our children.
Amy, the Snopes article has to do with the rumor that the federal government has made a nation-wide requirement of a note from a doctor. The article to which we are responding has to do only with a Richmond, VA school district.
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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Your correct Frank,
the government is to blame, and to be a little more specific, it was never an issue, until Michele Obama made it so. Telling public schools what they could and could not serve our kids at lunch time, during Mr Obama’s first term in office. Sorry I cannot, in good conscience, refer to him as President Obama, as I believe that term should only be applied to a person who actually earns that title.
My wife works in a school lunch program and she complains constantly about what the government says that they have to serve her kids. She provides lunch for 3 different schoolsin grades K-8 and they have no choice of what they serve. If they do not serve what the goverment says they loose the federal money for the free lunch program for the welfare kids and others that need help and ask for it.
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]
Did we offend you sasquatch, I mean moochelle obozo?
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.
Most of their food os prepared by cooking pre made food in plastic! Heating plastic leeches the BPA and other chemicals right into the food. These chemicals disrupt hormones, build up in the blood and tissues and can cause cancer. So how is that prepackaged, overly processed, perservative and GMO laden food healthy for kids?
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.
Actually in Nv There are no laws or policies governing CPS regarding the type of fod being fed to ones children. As long as a child is being fed consistent meals, CPS doesnt care and can not step in. Even CPS here realizes that parents have rights and can feed their kids what they want.
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.
They actually try to destroy the family unit because of the exact reasons you cite! Strong families offer much to children and adults in then! Strong families stick together and fight for each other. There is a loyalty and bonds that can not be broken. The govt has been slowly eroding families by undernining men, teaching women men are bad and just want to oppress them- that they can do better without a man. Women then dont value traditional roles/values/family as much as they use to. Then for some women government steps in to “take care of them” with benefits to take care of their kids the way a father should. Things have been slowly eroding to what we have today and its terrifying!