Childs lunch forcibly taken away by school officials

[Twilight Hue]

Article from NY Daily News....

A mom in North Carolina said her daughter ate three chicken nuggets for lunch — because an official thought the lunch she brought from home was unhealthy.
The offending ingredients? A turkey sandwich with cheese, a banana, apple juice — and potato chips, the Carolina Journal reported.
But the irate mom told the newspaper that a state employee inspecting lunch bags declared the food unhealthy because it was missing a vegetable and milk.
Instead, the preschool reportedly gave the 4-year-old a lunch from the cafeteria, which she apparently picked through.
"What got me so mad is, number one, don't tell my kid I'm not packing her lunch box properly," the mom, who wished to stay anonymous, told the newspaper. "I pack her lunchbox according to what she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of vegetables. She eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn't really care for vegetables."
The incident came amid a surging concentration on the nutrition in school lunches.
A spokeswoman for the Division of Child Development said the lunch the preschooler brought from home seemed to meet the guidelines, according to the Journal.
The rules, which can result in parents being billed an extra $1.25 in cafeteria fees, is to allow child care providers to step in if parents send blatantly unhealthy food with their kids, like a Coke and a Twinkie, the spokeswoman added to the newspaper. -Nina Mandell NY Daily News-

When do schools have a right to take away a child's lunch prepared by parents only to have it forcibly taken away from the child, thrown out, and parents charged a fee? When does the government have the right to dictate what foods can be eaten and what cannot? IMO this is disgusting.

 

[Revoltingest]

The gov has the right because they take the right.
They exercise the right because they love the power & need the income.

 

[Trey of Diamonds]

Just an excuse to bully children and steal money from their parents.

 

[Falvlun]

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When do schools have a right to take away a child's lunch prepared by parents only to have it forcibly taken away from the child, thrown out, and parents charged a fee? When does the government have the right to dictate what foods can be eaten and what cannot? IMO this is disgusting.

That is pretty revolting.

 

[Vinayaka]

As a teacher, it was sad to see the kids who were underfed, poorly fed, or just given 5 bucks to be spent on whatever. I eventually just gave up teaching nutrition as it seemed to have absolutely no impact. But it seems this official overstepped the bounds, given what the lunch was, if indeed we're getting the whole story.

 

[Twilight Hue]

The gov has the right because they take the right.
They exercise the right because they love the power & need the income.

Just an excuse to bully children and steal money from their parents.

Yep. Stand in line children and let the nice official ransack through all your lunchboxes from home......

Coke and Twinkies? Hmmm.... Well we just have to do something about that.........

 

[Revoltingest]

That is pretty revolting.

No, no, no...."revolting" is when we refuse to put up with government's cr**.

 

[Falvlun]

No, no, no...."revolting" is when we refuse to put up with government's cr**.

No, actually, I think that's a good thing, not revolting at all.

When do schools have a right to take away a child's lunch prepared by parents only to have it forcibly taken away from the child, thrown out, and parents charged a fee? When does the government have the right to dictate what foods can be eaten and what cannot? IMO this is disgusting.

It seems like schools are especially prone to these ridiculous applications of what otherwise seems like a reasonable rule. Like when they suspend the kindergartner for bringing a butter knife to class. Anti-weapon laws in school are reasonable, but the application is excessive.

It's like they go out of their way to prove that slippery-slope fear-mongering is true.

 

[Me Myself]

pathetic.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

This is stupid.

Republicans can't send the kid to Iran if she doesn't eat her veggies and drink her milk.

 

[Twilight Hue]

It seems like schools are especially prone to these ridiculous applications of what otherwise seems like a reasonable rule. Like when they suspend the kindergartner for bringing a butter knife to class. Anti-weapon laws in school are reasonable, but the application is excessive.

It's like they go out of their way to prove that slippery-slope fear-mongering is true.

I don't know if I want to compare this to rules set up for weapons and such, but I think I get the gist that overkill is habitual among a lot of school officials.

The fact that such rules are in place intentionally with real repercussions by way of fines imposed and confiscation for non-compliance as to what can and cannot be placed in a child's private lunch is what bothers me.
Never in my day in school such things were even considered and it seems that my generation somehow survived well enough*. I brought in tons of junk food into school without so much as an eyelid being raised.
On the surface, this may seem benign enough, but the fact that parents can even be fined over their child's food content in the first place seems well past what should be tolerated because this is actually something invasive. It's not like children were malnourished and underfed unless junk foods can be equated with endangerment on the level that weapons are. I think such regulations and rules like this need retraction and replaced with standard nutritional education of which schools should be doing in the first place. They have absolutely no business policing the personal affairs between parents and their children with some exception made to clear outright direct evidences of abuse.

It might be this one school but if there are more and more following the same lines of this type of enforcement it becomes less fear of a slippery slope and more of a reality. Hopefully it stops with this and school personnel learns to have more sense as to what is appropriate and what is not when overriding parental decision making in regards to feeding their own children what they feel is appropriate. IMO it's none of the schools business. Their business is to teach. Not indoctrinate.




*Gawd. How did we ever survive in those days?

 

[Revoltingest]

This is stupid.
Republicans can't send the kid to Iran if she doesn't eat her veggies and drink her milk.

It's yer boy who is ramping up tensions right now.
But I don't think the Repubs are any better.....except for Paul.
(That's why Paul will lose....too anti-war. That scares people.)

 

[angellous_evangellous]

It's yer boy who is ramping up tensions right now.
But I don't think the Repubs are any better.....except for Paul.
(That's why Paul will lose....too anti-war. That scares people.)

The Republicans are far worse.

The whole world knows that Obama AND the Republicans are just saber rattling with Iran.

Everyone knows that the Republicans destroyed our ability to make war.

 

[Revoltingest]

The Republicans are far worse.
The whole world knows that Obama AND the Republicans are just saber rattling with Iran.
Everyone knows that the Republicans destroyed our ability to make war.

You & the world might know such things, but I don't.
I truly fear that the Jews & Xians will push the Muslims into WW3.
Please, just leave us heathens (& others) out of it.

 

[Songbird]

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When do schools have a right to take away a child's lunch prepared by parents only to have it forcibly taken away from the child, thrown out, and parents charged a fee? When does the government have the right to dictate what foods can be eaten and what cannot? IMO this is disgusting.

What an appalling story. And a friggin (mostly) healthy lunch, on top of that.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

You & the world might know such things, but I don't.
I truly fear that the Jews & Xians will push the Muslims into WW3.
Please, just leave us heathens (& others) out of it.

I hope you're kidding.

The Muslims are too weak, the Christians are loud but politically castrated, and the Jews (Israel) are so strong that they don't need a nuclear strike.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

What an appalling story. And a friggin (mostly) healthy lunch, on top of that.

The mom should have said that she didn't want her child pulling the milk and veggies out of the idiot's ***. Gross.

 

[Revoltingest]

I hope you're kidding.
The Muslims are too weak, the Christians are loud but politically castrated, and the Jews (Israel) are so strong that they don't need a nuclear strike.

I'm serious.
The problem is that your reasonable arguments against war will fall when violent emotion prevails.
I've even discussed a possible reappearance of the draft with my kids. Resistance is not futile.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I'm serious.
The problems is that your reasonable arguments against war will fall when violent emotion prevails.
I've even discussed a possible reappearance of the draft with my kids. Resistance is not futile.

I hope not. I am very, very concerned about Obama and the Republican's rhetoric on Iran. It's obvious that they are laying the groundwork for public support of a war.

And a draft would be absolutely needed for it.

IDIOTS

 

[Revoltingest]

I hope not. I am very, very concerned about Obama and the Republican's rhetoric on Iran. It's obvious that they are laying the groundwork for public support of a war.
And a draft would be absolutely needed for it.
IDIOTS

Frubulicious!