Another attack against parents’ rights
Shortly after Barack Obama took office in early 2009, his wife, Michelle, started badmouthing America and letting everyone know how embarrassed she was to live here. When she realized her comments were not sitting well even with the liberals who got her husband elected, she shifted gears and was soon focusing on childhood obesity.
Like her husband, it’s not enough for Michelle to just spout off her opinions. She wants to make laws that will force people to behave the way she wants them to. And even if she can’t get laws passed about what should or should not be in a kid’s lunchbox, at the very least she figured she’d influence school officials to carry that torch for her.
Well, it looks like she’s had some success in the Denver area. Recently a grade school in Aurora, Colorado refused to let a 4-year-old child eat the Oreos her mother had packed in her lunchbox. Instead, the school sent a note home to the mother, telling her that the cookies were not healthy enough to be feeding her young child.
The girl’s lunch also included a sandwich and cheese, which the school graciously allowed her to eat. The note told the girl’s mother that in the future she needs to include fruit and a vegetable in a lunchbox, plus a healthy snack to replace items such as Oreos.
Forgetting for a moment that the Oreo is the greatest cookie in the history of cookies, it’s just mind-boggling to me that schools feel they have the right to overrule parents in terms of what a child should eat at lunch.
But it’s all part of the Obama agenda. Just keep giving more and more power to government and the places that control easily-influenced children and less and less power to the people. It’s the exact opposite of what our Founding Fathers had in mind and it’s time we elected officials who want to shrink the government down to its intended size.
Just out of curiosity, if you ever received a note from a school telling you what you should or shouldn’t put in your child’s or grandchild’s lunch box, how would you respond?
I’d send my child’s next lunchbox with a whole package of Oreo cookies and a note telling the teacher they don’t belong to the school to steal. I’d also hide some more nutritious food but that’s another story, maybe like caviar, liver pate, watercress, and cucumber tea sandwiches. ;-)
Or should I pack bananas, and cucumbers so that the teacher could teach the children how to put on condoms?
(satire folks)
There is more than meets the eye here. It’s all called “ONE WORLD ORDER”. Are you people blind? The power houses that dictate the laws and rules and run the government is all “ONE WORLD ORDER” . That’s the wave of the future, until everything breaks out into chaos. First your privacy rights will go, then your weapons, then the state will declare martial law, then the united nations will bring military groups from other countries to control the uprising and chaos. You are not going to be able to talk to them due to the language barrier. They will heard everybody into detension facilities like the FEMA camps. They will take everything from you. Your families, children, wife, girlfriends what ever. You will have nothing. If you resist? Guess what? you’re history. So wake up people. ask yourselves. Who is controlling everything? Who is making all this changes? Why? Yeah you can say everything I’m saying is stupid, or is it something that is coming? Think about it. I can only say be ready for when the SHF. I wish you good survival. :)
Yes USA Dan, we’re all blind except you. EVERYONE in America except illegal immigrants and Muslims will be herded into FEMA camps, then to the gas chambers and ovens.
By the way, I doubt you wish anyone a good survival unless they walk lockstep with you.
We spend more, per child, than any other civilized country in the World for Education, yet we are so far down the list for what our children learn, remember and who can go onto college and Universities it is sickening. You have teachers and administrators trying to blame our children’s educational abilities by distracting us with crap about Oreo cookies, learn to teach instead of trying to intimidating a young child just trying to survive school with out being shot, starved or bring terminally embarrassed by bureaucratic pencil pushers. Tact, try to use some next time.
It seems to me that parents should be able to warn the instituion(s) involved that, should they touch, confiscate any part of, or otherwise interfere with the child’s lunch going forward, they will be bringing a law suit against them for theft, custodial interference, and anything else their attorney and they found applicable. They’re behavior is intimidating and frightening to a small child and underminds parental authority in the children’s minds, as I’m sure it is intended to do. This is not in their pervue. The government has created this food plague and, judging from the society they have openly encouraged, their objective seems to be to take over the rearing and indoctrination of the children, just as was done in Nazi Germany. It is extremely important that we become aware of what is going on in virtually all aspects of our lives and start standing up and just saying NO! Always remember, and take to heart, the government is NOT your friend. It cares absolutely nothing for your true welfare and will only ever pass laws and regulations that work to further empower them and strip you of your rights and autonomy.
I was a school police officer. Trust me, the parents can, if they try. God help the school if it had been my child.
My children are all in their mid to late twenties now. (thank the gods)
When my children were small I fed them as well as I could. I tried to buy healthy foods but because we were a poor one parent household with a non-child support paying absent sperm donning father we did not have a lot of extra monies, I used food stamps for most of our food stuffs. I learned through the years that I was able to purchase seeds and plants for planting a garden. This is something that is not readily common knowledge.
I know a lot of inner city people do not have the space to grow a garden nor the time. But it did help me and mine quite a bit. The children helped me when I would make them. We were fortunate not to live in a city that fluoridated its water yet, so we escaped this hazard completely.
I worked two and sometimes three full time jobs to provide a living for my children. It was a very hard time for me as a single mother. But my children were always provided a hot home made meal. They got sweets on a regular basis but not allowed to gorge on them and they never acted as though they were put out by this fact. They were allowed to play video games when home work was done, but most of the time they got bored pretty quick and wanted to go outside and play.
My children were never fat except when they were babies and are not fat as adults.
I took them camping almost every weekend weather permitting and sometimes not, so lessons could be learned. I pushed them to excel in and with nature.
My twin sons are now in the Navy, ten years and excel,they are the top of their fields, one is a Blue Angle the other a Secret Squirrel. My daughter is in college trying to complete a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
I adopted another son before my state stopped single parents from adopting children, he now has his own lawn care business and is doing very well for himself. I also raised another 14 children without the help of the state or even being registered as a foster parent with my state. It was my choice to do so. How can you turn away a baby that has no one else that cares. My children brought most of them home and asked if we could feed them and give them a place to sleep, how could I say no to those innocent eyes?
My children’s school principle knew I was caring for these children and would call me first before their birth parents, because he knew I would come no matter how tired I was at the time.
The school never questioned what any of my children brought for lunch. My children’s school superintendent threatened on many occasions to call the police on me because I would jack boot into the school and give them a good what for on many occasions because of one or other of my children many infractions! But it never happened.
Many times the schools tried to push a drug of one sort or another on my babies, this was never allowed! I spanked my children when ever it was really needed or I could not find out the truth about what had happened.
I threatened many a person that went against my children when they were small and helpless. I would do the same today!
My point being it is not the government it is US! We have allowed to much power over our lives and our children’s lives and our grandchildren’s lives to be controlled by politics.
People wake up and take control of your prodigies future, before there is no future to take control of.
A simple humble opinion from a single mother of 19 children.
Peace and love to all with the hopes of a brighter future.
all I can say about you and your family, is WOW! You’re great. Talk about as much lemonade as you could get from lemons! I am fortunate enough to live in the country, and I’ve gotten some great ideas from you. Thank you, for being all that you have been, and to your children, for all that they have done and do, and prayers for their safety.
Dear Mystery, I admire you !!!!, I love you !!! My biological mum gave me away I can never understand this!!! And I shall do the same incase any baby and or child needs me !!!
I do my ultimate best with the children I care for.
Forget the whole “cookie” thing….What is this teacher teaching the children about respecting the property of others? When Bobby takes Billy car from his cubbie she has NO ONE TO BLAME BUT HERSELF. She modeled that behavior for the entire class. (PS. The teacher doesn’t get a say in what I feed my child unless that child is disruptive after eating a certain food. Then it is conference time)
The lunches she set up were no good. The kids threw it in the trash and what a waste of money.
Since she said she was ashamed to live here, she sure didn’t mind spending the taxpayers money on their lavish vacations and very expensive clothes. She has no shame.
As far as I know moochelle Obama doesn’t have the right to make laws, even though she thinks she does.
I’m sure glad I don’t have kids of school age anymore.
If she’s go embarrassed to live here, she’s free to leave anytime. But I guess she isn’t embarrassed to take all the lavish vacations that they take at taxpayers expense.
Lets face it the real reason why this child wasn’t allowed to eat her Oreo cookies is because she didn’t bring enough for the whole class. Therefore, the teacher had to confiscate it to prevent any problems or jealousies between the children. That is why the teacher ate the cookies herself.
How many times have you heard that the teacher was eating the deserts that the children brought from home. Everyone knows that an Oreo cookie is a special treat. What would have happened if Mom make homemade cookies instead. Would the teacher confiscate (eat) them too?
Personally, I would have written a note telling the teacher and/or school administration that the lunch that I fix for my child is the lunch I would want my child to eat instead of the precooked crap that the school system is trying to force upon the student body to consume at the expense of good, nutritious, fresh food. I would put a well made PB&J sandwich against anything the school system may provide any day of the week. Two or three Oreo cookies wouldn’t hurt a thing. If you or I went to this school to evaluate their food, I am sure that we will see that they are sadly lacking the basics in nutritious well balanced food(s). Usually it is crap you would never serve your child. After all the school is only to provide the basic in nutritious food and to provide food for those children that are usually to poor to have any food at home. That is why the school district is quick to provide meals to any and all students a breakfast or free lunch meal. The school district gets double the funding from the State and Federal Government.
It seems that all schools have a full, well equipped kitchens. But these kitchens go to waste because they are never used to their fullest potential because, 1.) requires man hours to cook and keep a large kitchen clean. 2.) It is easier to make simple items that meet their standards of nutritional needs. 3.) It saves the County a lot of money by making simple items than to cook a regular meal that requires more ingredients. 4.) and I can go on and on. The true proof on how good the school lunches truly are is in the waste that the kids leave behind after their meals. So why worry about three Oreo cookies? If it was so important to the school why didn’t they just send a note home first then inform the parent that a healthy snack should be provided? Answer, IT IS NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS! It is call “parent prerogative”; where the right of the family supersedes that of the school district. This is part of the American makeup of being an individual. If I feel that my child deserves a special treat like an Oreo cookie then I expect that my child eat his or her lunch including their snack, period!
I agree with you completely. Michelle O lacks any nutritional education to be instructing anyone on a healthy diet. It’s none of her business what parents send to school. Maybe the parent was rewarding the child for accomplishing a goal with their favorite cookie – Oreo. The school cannot step in and assume that child isn’t receiving good nutritional foods. Besides everyone needs to have a “treat” once in a while – even adults! That teacher was nothing more than a “busy body” sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong! Get a life teach!
Packing a lunch is more expensive – so the only reason people usually do it is to have their child eat what they want them to eat. What you feed your child is YOUR decision – not the school’s. If you think the child will eat fruit and vegetables – by all means put them in. But I know from my own experience that if they don’t like it they won’t eat it – often they trade it for something they DO like. Otherwise it ends up in the trash can anyway.
We had an experience with the schools when my children were young. We kept our one boy home because he was sick that day and the principal showed up at our door to check on him (really on us – to make sure we weren’t keeping him home because we were abusing him!) That principal had no authority to come to our home to spy on us. They also have no authority to spy on the lunches we send with the kids. If it happened to me, they would hear about it – just like they did with the principal’s visit. We ended up taking our kids out of school because they were getting way too much liberal crap and not enough education. They learned more at school in one year than they had in several years in public school. They also got a lot less bullying and teasing and outright violence from their “peers” as a result.
Our school system is messed up and the liberal colleges that spawn the teachers and administrators just created it all. No wonder we have the worst educational system in the world.
The craziest thing out of Michelle Obama’s mouth was that school lunches were contributing to obesity in children. Someone of authority should go into the schools and see how little the children get and how rushed they are to eat. The fruit thrown away is also crazy. I taught school 27 years in a middle school. When I started teaching the school lunches were very good. They were homemade. Now they are prepackaged food that is reheated. Some children get their best meals from school. Michelle has ruined school meals.
Maybe, the schools should look more at allowing more time for the kids to eat. By the time the kids get through the line, they are lucky to have 5 minutes to eat. Eating as fast as you can is a major cause of obesity, as well as what they are eating. Freedom means you are able to make your own choices in life. Judgemental people should learn tolerance, most have their own problems they should be correcting.
You can only educate using real facts, not opinions, and then let the people decide what they want to do.
I agree with you, Laurie. While fuit & veggies clearly ARE better for anyone, the way to educate is to give the parent the nutritional info in the the best interst of the child, as a friendly SUGGESTION. suggestion is the way of freedom & fairness; MANDATES are for NAZIS!
the kids that have obeastey is the paents fault they don’t do what it takes to get there kids down to a normal wieght. muchie obama does not have the right to tell our schools what to feed our kids. if any, the stae should have more cooks and use those kitchens. in the 60’s we had great tasting food in school. we had hash lines to the cafateria windows.
Note back to the school:
“What I pack in my child’s lunch is what I expect my child to each. When I desire the opinion of anyone else at the school, I will personally ask for it.”
In this particular case I am inclined to agree with the school. Oreos contain nothing but sugar, flour a tiny bit of chocolate and several chemicals for taste and freshness. IMHO they are non nutritive and serve only to ramp up a child’s anxieties and ADHD if the child happens to be prone to it. The school’s recommendation consist of what caring parents should be supplying for their offspring to eat.
Another of Osama’s Sheeple heard from. Damn Socialist S.O.B’s.
Your right Jon, Gar is so much smarter than we are. Didn’t know oreos are full of sugar. LOL
It doesn’t matter if the School system is right or not. They have no business telling us to raise our kids. The Government would rather we were all on some sort of assistance so they could have more control over us. People like Gar are used to letting someone else think for them and make decisions for them which is exactly what the government wants.
What happens when a parent includes a small lunchbox size bag of chips? Would the school take them away too? Dude get real for a minute will you. Three Oreos won’t hurt anybody. If it really means that much to you then send a note home and ask for a conference on the matter. Just be certain that your school provides a superior lunch meal to back up your claims.
thats a bunch of bull crap. suger in 1 cookie will not harm your body. it’s good if you need a boost. after lunch . my kid had ADD and suger did not do carp to his head. the meds. fucked him up thats speed you give to your kids with ADHD. i was not for it, but my ex would not listen. now he is 19 and a slug. if hes not in colgee, or at worlk he’s playing video games. no drive bad attitude.
Dear Gar, to assume that all the girl eats are Oreo cookies would be as ignorant as assuming she never eats fruits and vegetables at home. I am an RN with extra training in Nutrition do not assume that just because I send my child a treat at lunch that is all she eats at home what did they do to her blood glucose levels, her attention span her ability to even stay awake, her emotional well being ..they did her no favor. To be centered out like that may cause years of therapy later in life. Will she be more prone to drop out, now that school has scared her? What HAS HAPPEN TO COMMON SENSE in schools today? Children’s egos are fragile change behavior with praise not punishment the school and the teacher blew this one.
The way the multinationals and corporations behave I’m very surprised that Oreos aren’t on the must have list in a childs lunch box.
I think that poor diet is the number one problem for children and adults in this country. Diabetes, obesity, and overweight have significantly increased with all the accompanying health problems as well as increases in health care costs. The reasons may be “secret” ingredients in our food such as antibiotics fed to livestock, fertilizers and herbicide resiidues in plant, genetically engineered corn and wheat and soybeans, etc. or simply the fat and carbohydrates that have become the nation’s go-to foods. If that kid’s sandwich was white bread and bologna, cheese and Oreos aren’t going to improve the nutrition content but may increase a sugar high, not what anyone looks forward to when faced with a class of 4 year olds. Fruit and vegetables are better choices.
I suggest to take the time and investigate the meals served at and in your school district. You may have a change of heart, after you get out of the bathroom.
So… it’s OK for the school to Illegally confiscate that little girls lunch. This smacks of big brother. Perhaps a better way would have been to send home a letter stating that better choices need to be made.
I live in the burbs of denver and the whole state is a little off just like california.
But I would expect no less from the left that run things in my state.
My daughter packs her son’s lunch because the Obama approved school lunches don’t meet her standards. My grandson, now a first grader, knows enough about what good nutrition is that 2 years ago he took his preschool teacher to task for feeding them only junk food. Yes, he loves cookies, too, A few years ago, we all began eating clean, with virtually all processed foods eliminated. He watched as his father went from couch potato to pretty active, dropping more than 100 pounds in the process. My daughter lost 85, and I lost 50.. This happened without “dieting”.We don’t live together, but have embraced a lifestyle built around a truly healthy diet.
I work in a large medical center and would never argue that obesity is a major problem. But it will never be solved by the lunch box police. Maybe Michelle should set her sights on the real problem, which in my opinion is first, the massive agribusiness producing substandard food, followed by the folks who sell us convenience food, junk food, and sugar laden treats. Growing your own and/or joining a CSA , searching out local meat, poultry and dairy products, and actually cooking can make a huge difference.Alas, it is not convenient. I used to buy the crap, too, so I get that. My health is worth a bit of inconvenience! And back to your question, if someone did that at my grandson’s school, I believe they would soon regret it.
Good thing they didn’t get to the grocery stores yet! You can’t get any junk food if you have children. What is next?, curbing hour liquid intake? No soda, no Kool Aid , no iced tea, nothing that is enjoyable to us and of our own free will?
If they were in New York City they would definite be unable to get a large soda.
Oreos are vegan :)
I’m not surprised. The first time I heard the first lady declare childhood obesity her “thing”, I knew they were going to start dictating our foods (as well as everything else). :(
The first LADY, ;-} (what a joke) should practice what she preaches. She could shed 50 and in doing so may lose an inch or two of her body mass. Not that it would really be noticed.
Look on the bright side, she didn’t have her husband make it an Executive Order, yet.
Send nothing but Orion’s and milk for child to eat , then when school suspends child or puts some sort of charges against you, take it to court. Bust Thier Asses!!
Oreos are made of shortening and refined sugar. You are always touting healthy food and pushing life insurance scams as ancient money secrets and you’re mad at a school trying to keep the obesity in children down?!?!? Good for that teacher, its bad enough that our school lunches are basically sugar and plastic. I am happy that teacher did that! Your blogs used to be alright, please go back to what you used to be.
It’s none of anyone’s business what is packed in the child’s lunch except for the parents.
Doesn’t matter, get rid of the sugars and then try to get rid of GMO’S. They are in everything. Not going to happen. Monsanto is under government control. We can’t even get the Congress to let us have GMO labeling so we can make a choice of what we want to buy.
It cost the school district more to package the preheated food in plastic than to make fresh nutritious food. A child would do better with Food4Patroits than what they serve them on a daily basis. At lease the kids would eat everything if they were given a package of Food4Patroits meal. I know because mind do.
It’s school , not prison camp. Frankly more concerned about what’s no longer taught than a childs lunch.
Don’t have to do lunches any more, thank goodness because I would send what I want and they better stay out of it, I will say even tho my youngest is now, on occasion I see one of their teachers in a store and they almost always comment that what they remember most about him was that he would take a bell pepper or carrot, or raw green beans to school for a snack instead of cookies or candy and he still likes them better! I do think enforcing their idea is going out of bounds!