This is not the first time I have heard of this.
Four year old Natalee Pearson left for school with a ham and cheese sandwich, string cheese, and a 4-pack of Oreo cookies that her mom packed her for lunch. When she came back home the Oreos hadn’t been touched and she explained to her mom that her teacher wouldn’t allow her to eat them.
The teacher had sent home a note to clarify:
Dear Parents, It is very important that all students have a nutritious lunch. This is a public school setting and all children are required to have a fruit, a vegetable, and a healthy snack from home, along with milk. If they have potatoes, the child will also need bread to go along with it. Lunchables, chips, fruit snacks, and peanut butter are not considered to be a healthy snack. This is a very important part of our program and we need everyone’s participation.
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I saw this last week and about had a conniption. If a parent packs the lunch, then the parents’ nutritional oversight is all that should be involved. If the school calls that gruel they serve nutritional, considering my kid won’t eat half of it and still comes home starving because the portions are so small, then maybe the health food has affected their logic.
I don’t advocate kids eating junk 7 days a week but geesh, it was a few cookies for one lunch, mixed with other food. The schools have taken so much control over children the parents are not getting a say in it anymore with every “school policy” they create. Yet the parents are expected to pay for the school’s interference.
Asinine.
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Yep I totally agree. I can’t drink milk. I was forced to in school and we (me and a teacher) would sit inside every day while they waited for me to drink it. It never happened. Finally my mom told the school I was allergic to milk and can’t drink it. I was finally let out at recess and the teacher could do what they had to do.
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control is what it’s about and now they’re even trying to implement this into the curriculum
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They want to control every aspect of our lives.
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