Chicago school bans kids from bringing their lunches to school. have to buy there.

EL PRESIDENTE · Apr 11, 2011

Stimulus jobs. Keep the school chefs employed. Welcome to Obama's Amurrica.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...ade-lunches-the-latest-in-national-food-fight

Students who attend Chicago's Little Village Academy public school get nothing but nutritional tough love during their lunch period each day. The students can either eat the cafeteria food--or go hungry. Only students with allergies are allowed to bring a homemade lunch to school, the Chicago Tribune reports.
"Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school," principal Elsa CarmonaÂ told the paper of the years-old policy. "It's about ... the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It's milk versus a Coke."
But students said they would rather bring their own lunch to school in the time-honored tradition of the brown paper bag. "They're afraid that we'll all bring in greasy food instead of healthy food and it won't be as good as what they give us at school," student Yesenia Gutierrez told the paper. "It's really lame."
The story has attracted hundreds of comments so far. One commenter, who says her children attend a different Chicago public school, writes, "I can accept if they want to ban soda, but to tell me I can't send a lunch with my child. ARE YOU KIDDING ME????"

For parents whose kids do not qualify for free or reduced price school lunches, the $2.25 daily cafeteria price can also tally more than a homemade lunch. "We don't spend anywhere close to that on my son's daily intake of a sandwich (lovingly cut into the shape of a Star Wars ship), Goldfish crackers and milk," Northwestern education policy professor Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach told the paper in an email. She told The Lookout parents at her child's public school would be upset if they tried to ban homemade lunches.
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maxiep · Apr 11, 2011

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Just remember: the state knows how to better raise your children than do you.

MARIS61 · Apr 11, 2011

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Institutional food is high in sodium, low in vitamins, high in bpa's...

Cafeteria style dining promotes food poisoning.

School "lunches" are not lunches at all. They are snack trays.

It's only a matter of time before terrorists target our children's lunches.

Klinky · Apr 11, 2011

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Yes a single school in Chicago does this and it's all Obama's fault. It is definitely a dick move by the school, but I don't see where Obama told the school to do this. School lunches seriously suck and are just more buddy-buddy antics that let the food services industries profit while providing a less & less substantial product.

EL PRESIDENTE · Apr 12, 2011

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Michelle is an Obama.

http://sportstwo.com/threads/154159-First-Lady-Launches-‘Let’s-Move’-Campaign?

“We have everything we need, right now, to help our kids lead healthy lives,” Obama said.

Some of the goals include ending what Obama referred to as “food deserts” with a $400 million a year “Healthy Food Financing Initiative,” which will bring grocery stores to low-income neighborhoods and “help places like convenience stores carry healthier food options.”

Obama called for overhauling many federal laws and guidelines, including adding $10 billion over the next decade to “update” the Childhood Nutrition Act, which feeds 31 million children at school and would add funding to feed more children.

The federal food pyramid would also get a makeover through the campaign, and there would be new efforts to get manufacturers to add “family friendly front-of-package labeling” that discloses a product’s nutritional value.

The First Lady said a broad coalition of groups interested in children’s health are coming together to form the Partnership for a Healthier America, which will use professional athletes, members of the media, and state and local dignitaries to promote the “Let’s Move” campaign and its goals around the country.

Obama used anecdotal details from her own life to explain the challenges faced by overworked parents and children who spend too much time watching TV or playing video games because their neighborhoods are unsafe for playing outside.

“So many parents desperately want to do the right thing, but they feel like the deck is stacked against them,” Obama said. “They know their kids’ health is their responsibility but they feel like it’s out of their control.”

“They are bombarded by contradictory information at every turn, and they don’t know who to believe,” she said.

Obama said before she lived in the White House she struggled to balance the demands of working and being a mother, and occasionally fed her two daughters fast food or “less healthy microwavable options.”

“And one day,” she said, “my pediatrician pulled me aside and told me, ‘You might want to think about doing things a little bit differently.’”

She said it was a wake-up call and that the nation should see childhood obesity as a wake-up call, including the fact that children are victims of the epidemic.

“Our kids did not do this to themselves,” Obama said. “Our kids don’t decide what’s served to them at school or whether there’s time for gym classes or recess. Our kids don’t choose to make food products with tons of sugar and sodium in super-sized portions, and then to have those products marketed to them everywhere they turn.”
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barfo · Apr 12, 2011

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told the paper of the years-old policy
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Yeah, let's get bent about old news.

barfo

Klinky · Apr 12, 2011

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EL PRESIDENTE said: ↑

Michelle is an Obama.

http://sportstwo.com/threads/154159-First-Lady-Launches-‘Let’s-Move’-Campaign?
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Is that the entire quote? I think you left out the part where she said she planned to ban bagged lunches. I'd have thought you would've actually posted something that supported your accusation instead of a wall of text that really had nothing to do with it.

BrianFromWA · Apr 12, 2011

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On a tangent, I've seen television blurbs (60 Minutes or Sunday Morning or something) where there have been chefs who've volunteered their time and made menus (and worked with local farms and groceries) to meet the challenge of making a breakfast and lunch for kids that meets many of their daily nutritional needs for less than school lunches normally cost. It's not the "pizza, burger& fries or 'salisbury steak'?" choice I had in HS.

If I get a chance I'll try to find it.

On-topic, I think it's poor form to regulate away a parent's choice of food for their child. That said, I think it's horrible that the best we can come up with (and I saw this first-hand at some elementary schools I volunteered at) is $2.50 (even subsidized for free- or reduced-lunch kids) for a plate of greasiness that might fill you up, but doesn't help the body much.

BrianFromWA · Apr 12, 2011

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As far as the First Lady, she's one who started the "healthier school lunches" campaign, from what I've read and seen. I don't know that I've heard her call for bans of brown bags.

This is the first instance I came across of , but it doesn't talk about the pricing.

A sample menu at the Berkeley, Calif., school district where she runs food services: veggie hot dog on a whole grain bun, roasted vegetable fries, fresh fruit, and low-fat milk. A far cry from tuna surprise.

Read more: http://www.grandparents.com/gp/cont...s-healthier-school-lunches.html#ixzz1JJvGAFYW
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Here's the guy doing it in Baltimore and one of the problems:

Geraci says people don't realize that schools "get less than a dollar to buy the food they serve for a meal" — everything else is eaten up in labor and operations costs. "People have this crazy expectation that we are supposed to feed our kids all this great wonderful stuff, but they don't give us any money."

Trudeau says that the more nutritious foods generally cost more. For instance, the whole-grain bun costs 2 cents more than the white wheat bun.

"You have customers to please," Trudeau says. "You have customers who have the option not to spend their money with us. You have to give your customers a product that they want to eat. You have to give them options and changes. You have to give them a quality product."

Geraci agrees. "My customers are 86,000 kids. Why wouldn't I treat them with the same respect that I would for any other paying customers?"

He believes fresh ingredients and artful cooking are the key. "Local fresh ingredients are better. They taste better, and my customers come back," he says.

"The next thing we are working on is buying locally grown protein. There are more chickens than people in Maryland, so why the heck are we buying chickens from Arkansas?"
Kids deserve a lunch they can enjoy, Krieger says. Whether prepared at school or packed at home, lunches should be enticing enough "that kids look forward to eating it, and it should be loaded with nutritious foods to help kids succeed and thrive," she says. "Lunch doesn't have to be a perfect masterpiece of a gourmet lunch, but it should be fun, delicious and healthful."
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Reminds me a bit of "The Distinguished Gentleman", with Eddie Murphy:

Thomas: Hey, Rafe! Tell these kids what that vote was about. (to kids) Guy's got a real knack for explaining things.
Rafe: Well, it was a motion to reconsider, the motion to reconsider.
(Bo intervenes)
Bo: No, it was the rule on amending the reauthorization.
Tommy: Which means?
Bo: Clean Air.
Rafe (overlapping): School lunches.
TOMMY: Ah, you see the difficult choices we have to make here, kids?
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blazerboy30 · Apr 12, 2011

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barfo said: ↑

Yeah, let's get bent about old news.

barfo
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Yeah, let's dismiss something that isn't right because it has been going on for years.

EL PRESIDENTE · Apr 12, 2011

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RR7 · Apr 12, 2011

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The rule was put in place 6 years ago.

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