Chicago public school bans lunch from home

[fskimospy]

What difference does it make.
If I want to feed my kid a bag of marshmallows with a side of crisco, that is my prerogative as a parent.

Actually, it isn't. Deliberate malnutrition of your children is grounds for them to be taken away from you, as well it should be.

Not sure how you didn't know that. Then again, you're the guy who has been posting about politics for years and didn't know how the vice president was elected.

 

[Jaskalas]

Take the children away at birth.

 

[UglyCasanova]

heh the last two years of high school i don't think i ever ate the cafeteria food. i'd get a milk/juice and some prepackaged mrs baird's apple cinnamon rolls. i'd wait to get home for real food.

Hahaha I remember that thread.

 

[Tom]

You think a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is nutritious?

Yes it is.

 

[Throckmorton]

What difference does it make.
If I want to feed my kid a bag of marshmallows with a side of crisco, that is my prerogative as a parent.

While kids are at school their wellbeing is the responsibility of the school because they're "wards of the state".

 

[waggy]

lol i seen that article this morning. WTF that's insane.

i would be fighting it. my daughter enjoys makeing her lunch. She usually takes a sandwich (turkey is her favorite) but then she has a apple, grapes, watermelon (if we have it) etc. she usually has far more fruit then anything.

to tell her nope you gotta eat the slop we serve would just cause her to throw it away and eat when she got home.

 

[Scotteq]

Yeah... Because school lunches are so good for the kids

http://www.miller-mccune.com/health/do-school-lunches-plump-up-poor-kids-21822/

 

[rudder]

While kids are at school their wellbeing is the responsibility of the school because they're "wards of the state".

What parent grants custody of their children to a school? Do you even know what a ward of the state is?

 

[spidey07]

Actually, it isn't. Deliberate malnutrition of your children is grounds for them to be taken away from you, as well it should be.

Not sure how you didn't know that. Then again, you're the guy who has been posting about politics for years and didn't know how the vice president was elected.

See. In the liberal mindset the children are property of the government and can be taken away for any reason if you don't raise their property by their demands.

 

[waggy]

While kids are at school their wellbeing is the responsibility of the school because they're "wards of the state".

uh. no.

 

[Anarchist420]

At my schools, the food was awful and I felt pretty damn sorry for the people who had to eat it. On the other hand, they ate, so I guess it was better than nothing.

The principal is a tool if she really thinks 2% and whole milk is healtier than a coke. Coke doesn't clog the arteries. It's also very cruel to make kids drink milk. Milk only makes me thirstier.

 

[CycloWizard]

Wow. I came in here thinking that the only justification would be to avoid allergy problems, but she is saying that kids with allergies will be the exception.

 

[fskimospy]

See. In the liberal mindset the children are property of the government and can be taken away for any reason if you don't raise their property by their demands.

You are a moron. Maybe you were raised on crisco and marshmallows.

If children are being abused by their parents the state has not only the right, but the obligation to end that abuse. Feeding your kid marshmallows and crisco every day would almost certainly lead to severe health problems. Much as you do not have a right to kill your children through violence, you do not have a right to kill them through malnutrition.

That's such a simple idea that even someone as breathtakingly stupid as yourself should be able to grasp it.

 

[werepossum]

See. In the liberal mindset the children are property of the government and can be taken away for any reason if you don't raise their property by their demands.

In the liberal mindset EVERYONE is property of the state. This is merely a logical extension of Kelo v. New London.

Wait until we have single payer health care, then we'll REALLY be managed like cattle. Can't have a bunch of fat, inactive, corn syrup slurping smokers driving whatever private automobiles they want wherever they want and eating as much they want and keeping their homes at, you know, 72 degrees all year around and expecting government health care - or expecting the rest of the world to say okay. That's not leadership.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Chicago school lunches are much healthier...everybody knows this. You idiots...stop the rampant parental abuse and feed them healthy food!!!

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/thestew/2010/04/school-lunch-photos-.html

 

[Red Dawn]

The principal is a tool if she really thinks 2% and whole milk is healtier than a coke. Coke doesn't clog the arteries. It's also very cruel to make kids drink milk. Milk only makes me thirstier.

 

[fskimospy]

In the liberal mindset EVERYONE is property of the state. This is merely a logical extension of Kelo v. New London.

Wait until we have single payer health care, then we'll REALLY be managed like cattle. Can't have a bunch of fat, inactive, corn syrup slurping smokers driving whatever private automobiles they want wherever they want and eating as much they want and keeping their homes at, you know, 72 degrees all year around and expecting government health care - or expecting the rest of the world to say okay. That's not leadership.

Can you provide a single example of any mainstream liberal saying that people are property of the state? (also waiting on those examples of media bias, btw)

I don't understand you at all. Half the time you seem to be quite reasonable, and then the other half you fly off into weird conspiracy theories about what liberal people think.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X-5mk3BcfM&feature=related

Pizza for breakfast and nuggets for lunch based on a nutritional analysis.

 

[CallMeJoe]

In the liberal mindset EVERYONE is property of the state. This is merely a logical extension of Kelo v. New London...

Methinks you need to reread that decision before making more absurd statements.

 

[Red Dawn]

Chicago school lunches are much healthier...everybody knows this. You idiots...stop the rampant parental abuse and feed them healthy food!!!

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/thestew/2010/04/school-lunch-photos-.html

That and the enchilada looks like it's already been eaten once.

 

[waggy]

That and the enchilada looks like it's already been eaten once.

looks like beef nachos to me. actually looks like it might be ok.

now the enchilada in the story the OP posted is err looked like canned dog food.

 

[werepossum]

Can you provide a single example of any mainstream liberal saying that people are property of the state? (also waiting on those examples of media bias, btw)

I don't understand you at all. Half the time you seem to be quite reasonable, and then the other half you fly off into weird conspiracy theories about what liberal people think.

My mistake. I'm getting all upset at liberals treating kids like property of the state, as in the subject of this thread. I didn't realize that this is okay as long as they don't SAY they are property of the state. One of my persistent character flaws is the belief that people's actions show their beliefs more accurately than do their words.

The times I seem quite reasonable are the times when I agree with you - gay marriage, Birthers, Libya, environmental issues. I'm not actually any more or less reasonable on those issues, it just doesn't seem to you that I am unreasonable because you see no reason to argue with me. I assure you that to a Birther or a gay marriage opponent or a proponent of responsibly logging National Forests, I seem just as unreasonable as you find me here.

 

[fskimospy]

My mistake. I'm getting all upset at liberals treating kids like property of the state, as in the subject of this thread. I didn't realize that this is okay as long as they don't SAY they are property of the state. One of my persistent character flaws is the belief that people's actions show their beliefs more accurately than do their words.

The times I seem quite reasonable are the times when I agree with you - gay marriage, Birthers, Libya, environmental issues. I'm not actually any more or less reasonable on those issues, it just doesn't seem to you that I am unreasonable because you see no reason to argue with me. I assure you that to a Birther or a gay marriage opponent or a proponent of responsibly logging National Forests, I seem just as unreasonable as you find me here.

No, you really aren't being reasonable. You don't have to agree with my views on state/child interaction to hold reasonable views. It is not a reasonable depiction of liberal thought on state/child interaction to say that they believe them to be state property.

If you believe that there is an action which liberals have taken that show that they believe children to be state property, please list it here. Regulating the food being brought into schools for one meal out of the day will not be sufficient, unfortunately. (or even on the same planet as sufficient)

To be clear: the belief that liberals think the state owns people is every bit as insane and stupid as being a birther. I mean that.

 

[boomerang]

Chicago, the epicenter of big government.

 

[Red Dawn]

looks like beef nachos to me. actually looks like it might be ok.

now the enchilada in the story the OP posted is err looked like canned dog food.

looks like someone puked up their hot dog on a bunch of corn chips.