gov't intervention, thats whats for lunch today
 

http://myfox8.com/2012/02/14/nc-pres...wasnt-healthy/

NC preschooler’s “unhealthy” lunch replaced with cafeteria nuggets


3:12 pm, February 14, 2012, by Ryan Sullivan

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RAEFORD, N.C. — A Hoke County preschooler was fed chicken nuggets for lunch because a state worker felt that her homemade lunch did not have enough nutritional value, according to a report by the Carolina Journal.

The West Hoke Elementary School student was in her More at Four classroom when a U.S. Department of Agriculture agent who was inspecting lunch boxes decided that her packed lunch — which consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips — “did not meet USDA guidelines,” the Journal reports.

The decision was made under consideration of a regulation put in place by the the Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services, which requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs to meet USDA guidelines.

“When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones,” the Journal reports.

The student’s mother told the Journal she received a note from the school about the incident and was charged $1.25 for the cafeteria tray, from which her daughter only ate three chicken nuggets.

The note explained how students who did not bring “healthy lunches” would be offered the missing portions and that parents could be charged for the cost of the cafeteria food, the Journal reports.

The mother, who was not identified in the report, expressed concern about school officials telling her daughter that she wasn’t “packing her lunch box properly.”

WHAT THE FUCK? that's healthier than 99% of the shit kids eat these days... and some fried fucking nuggets are supposed to supplement that???

I'd be beyond pissed off... especially because the USDA is a fucking shill for big government... those standards are set by bureaucrats getting pockets lined, NOT nutritionists.

I guess her pre packed lunch didnt contain enough nitrates, MSG, steroids and antibiotics so she had ot have some processed nuggets.

Exactly what the fuck was missing from her lunch? Vegetables maybe? WGAF?

This is the first I've heard of government "agents" searching kids' lunch boxes. WTF? :?:

I'd have that lunch ladies job.

Kinda sounds like something is missing from this story.

Dubya Tee Eff....

No wonder 'Merikah is so fked.... we're not feeding our kids properly so we need Big Bro stepping in to help us out so we can see the error of our ways.... we must conform.

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Maybe to someone who doesn't have kids in public school....

After reading Paul's "full story" it is even more infuriating.

I'd be raising hell, for sure. I decide what my kid eats, not the school and not the government. Just because the kid doesn't get vegetables packed in their lunch doesn't mean there are zero vegetables in their diet. What's next? Federal inspectors in your house, monitoring what your kids eat?

Who is on the hook if those idiots at the school give your kid something that they're allergic to?

Fuck that.

That was my thinking reading Paul's post.

It mentioned milk a few times as something the school decided the child needed.

If a school decided it needs to feed my child milk, they would have a very big lawsuit on their hands.

Some significant and important differences from the Fox article.

Still retarded.

I will say that bananas and apple juices are shitty choices for fruit. Bananas contain little of merit except potassium, and they promote tooth decay due to their sticky consistency. As for apple juice, it's the cheapest type of juice, and spikes insulin levels faster than other types of juices.

If we can tell welfare recipients where they can spend their checks why cant we tell parents what to pack in their kids' lunches so we're not wasting money educating future fat kids. Theyre accepting government money so the goverement owns them, right?

Rhetorical nonsense and you know it. There is a difference between dictating every minor behavior of a person who utilizes a government program and dictating the acceptable uses of government money. No one cries about Pell Grants being only applicable to university fees. But support restrictions on welfare money and all of a sudden I'm trying to own poor people? Sell that crap somewhere else.

That being said, I have less of a problem with the story if the school simply provides a lunch. Providing a whole other meal to a student who already has a meal is just a waste of money, not a violation of rights. Forcing the students to eat one thing or another is a different matter, and not apparently what happened in this case.

However, if they actually try to force the parents to pay for an arbitrarily-provided extra lunch when the parents have already provided a lunch, that crosses the line.

I'm still looking for more details but so far it just looks like an auditor saw the girl was missing a veggie and said "Here ya go sweetie"..gave her the school lunch. Kid saw chicken nuggets and like any child went straight for that, filled up on the nuggets and ignored the turkey sandwich. Expected behavior for any 4 year old.

Mom sounds like she took it personally, as if the school is saying she is an unfit mother. Flips out and starts raising hell.

Why is there an auditor looking through children's lunches?

Did the auditor's actions achieve the intended results?

Doh..meant to say assessor.
Its stated in the article I posted...the inspector was assessing the program.

That's fine if the inspector wants to assess the school lunches.

Why was she digging through a 4 year old's home-packed lunch?

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Whenever welfare comes up theres a common theme that these people are using "my" money and therefore should follow my rules. Nobody has a problem with the government intervening to decide where the recipients spend their money. This is obviously a different situation but its still an instance of the government making rules that only apply to patrons of a particular government sponsored program.

Im just speculating but Ill bet that at some point a study showed that the children most likely to participate in this type of free preschool program are also the most at risk for obesity or other diet related diseases so they decided to add dietary requirements for everyone that participates. Thats a lot like what happened in Florida when they decided that all welfare recipients must take a drug test to get benefits.

Digging or just walking around the lunchroom taking notes?

Is this a federal inspector or state? If federal, that's BS and a waste of money IMO.

Does it matter?

http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~mafeval/pages/publications.cfm


If this mother is so fucking upset then take her child out of this voluntary program established to help her and her child out.

So to summarize the story.

Mom packs a shitty lunch for her shitty kid and sends her off to retard school.
the retard school program was established because guilt ridden people with normal kids thought something needed to be done for all the stupid poor people who couldn't afford to send their kids off to therapists and were worried that all the little poor retard kids would make start rubbing off on the normal kids.

Win win where poor people could drop off their kid at a free babysitter that would also help them with school and make sure they get a good meal.

Person checking up on the school see's little girl with a crappy lunch and gives her an approved lunch. (poor people with their sugar drinks...)

Mother gets "Oh noes they diddant" and shoots gift horse in face.

FoxNews reports Obama sends political appointee to take little girls lunch and replace it with fried chicken prepared by Hillary Clinton who then sends a cleaning bill to mother.


Hilarity ensues


However...I'm still looking into this so this is just a draft summary

Currently trying to find how the on site assessor is considered a "Government employee"
http://ers.fpg.unc.edu/ers-people

From what I've read so far, an Assessor is someone who completes the training at the University and not affiliated with any state agency...unless we're going to call everyone who works directly or indirectly for or with a state university a government employee.

Anyone want to head over to the University and take the training?
http://www.ersi.info/training_live.html
http://www.ersi.info/inpractice.html

.... on the fence now -- mainly because of shitty overall reporting.


But overall I don't think that was a super-bad lunch the mom packed for her kid -- beats the hell outta some of the shit I had when I was growing up.

From what I read these are not state employees but contractors.

The way I see it is some checklister had an empty "Vegetable" line on her form that needed a check mark so she ordered the kid some vegetables o she could finish her job. Since the meals are all pre-portioned you cant just order a cup of green beans so she got a full meal. They put it in front of a 4-year old and told her to eat the green beans so of course she ate the chicken nuggets. It seems like kids who bring their lunch should be exempt from these rules but other than that I dont see the big deal.

http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/...3?sac=fo.local

So now they're saying it was a mix-up and blame it on the kid --- that she didn't understand or "misinterpreted" what was being instructed? No kidding... You don't say.... the kid's 4 years old.

Sounds like a pretty good lunch, to me. When I was that age my lunch, on school days, frequently consisted of a bologna sandwich with mayo, on white bread, and a bowl of Lipton's chicken noodle soup (from powder mix).

Hell, these days no one can seem to decide if there are four food groups, five food groups, or a whole fucking pyramid. Let parents feed their kids.

werd,