Fernando waved his hand over the crowd and asked a visiting reporter: “Do you see the situation?”
At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago’s West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria.
Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their own unhealthful food choices.
via School’s food is the only option for some kids – chicagotribune.com.
In today’s nanny-state America, parents cannot be trusted to pack a lunch for their own kids. This school bans home packed lunches. I weep for this nation.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI had hopes when I saw this headline that it was to prevent weapons or drugs from entering the school.
Alas, the nanny state strikes again. This will be a burden to middle-class Americans. Lunches are much more expensive now than when we were in school.
I liked the kid’s response to the reporter.
When I was a kid, my parents always had me sign up to be a cafeteria worker so that I got my lunches for free. I worked the cafeteria all through elementary and junior high school, but stopped when I reached high school. By then I was buying my own lunches anyway using my job earned money.
When I was a kid, I’d buy a $0.75 mountain dew from the vending machine and work out rocketry equations while my peers were in line for the rubber spaghetti of the day.
I’m not sure what that says about me.
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