Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school. “Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?” the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish and English. Dozens of hands flew in the air and fellow students shouted along: “We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch!” 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.
“Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,” Carmona said. “It’s about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It’s milk versus a Coke. But with allergies and any medical issue, of course, we would make an exception.”
A Chicago Public Schools spokeswoman said she could not say how many schools prohibit packed lunches and that decision is left to the judgment of the principals. Any school that bans homemade lunches also puts more money in the pockets of the district’s food provider, Chartwells-Thompson. The federal government pays the district for each free or reduced-price lunch taken, and the caterer receives a set fee from the district per lunch.
Does anyone really believe this is for the kiddies? If so, read the last line above for clarification.
Yay! I didn’t even mention a party. Good job. Here a bit of advice. The government grows just as much under republicans as it does democrats. Both parties hate personal liberty. Do you HONESTLY believe one side is better than the other when it comes to power grabs?
@21 nope both sides are only out for themselves.
bobbo, the psycho babbling troll… should be your name.
A young revolutionary? Lefty latinos are all trash. Discard them, they’re useless.
#13 & #15 are the same person.
@22
Not only for themselves but also for the Corporations whose funds they depend upon to get elected.
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I have heard a lot of voices talk about needing local control, because it would be so much better. So these decisions have been made by local BoE, not state or federal. So throw the bums out, and make a change!
UNITED DICTATORSHIP OF AMERICA!!!!
21–Well DerWreek==let me clue you in:
Dumbocrats = the Nanny Pro Government Party
Pukeocrats = anti-government Party
So, yes, you clearly identified the party, not by name, but by philosophy. Obviously, you need more basic education.
#22–So what==no, not quite. Notice the Nanny Party had power and was giving away lunches to everybody. The puke party in the same situation would have cut the lunch program out and given raises to the school principal. There is a difference.
I challenge anyone to set forth the argument that the Super Rich need more tax cuts while the poor, working, and middle classes need service cuts. Go ahead: make that argument.
If not, wake up Fools. The Republicans want to Kill America but they can’t do it without your vote.
Chicago = Democratic
Children = future Democrats
I’ll have the lowest bidder tuna salad and the mystery meat pot pie.
Animby==excellent choices. Much better than the mayonnaise and wonder bread sammaches brought from home.
# 28 bobbo, “The Republicans want to Kill America”
Robby, this is in Chicago. Somehow, I suspect the people involved in this decision were more often democraps than repulsives.
Can’t you change your tagline to read “Politicians want to kill America”?
Animby==you ask, evidently not reading the short answer given 1-2 days ago: “Can’t you change your tagline to read “Politicians want to kill America”? //// … and the answer is: of course I could, but I’d be lying!!!
Now, I already changed my tagline at another heartfelt request as shown above. You see, you just can’t please everyone, so who should you please? I say that monster TRUTH! Yea verily.
Are both political parties corrupt, self seeking, doing the bidding of corporations, hypocritical, liars? Well, of course, anyone with a hearing aid know that. So that is HALF and only HALF of the necessary analysis.
Now, are the two parties different in any significant way? Why yes they are: PUKES want to cut taxes to the lowest levels since the 1930′s in this second decade of the 21st century. They want to terminate womens’ access to basic health care, the right to abortions as restricted as they are, they want to fund the military for foreign adventures without limitation, they want to keep the nation addicted to foreign oil. They want zero regulation of banking, energy, pharmaceuticals, and food. Job equity and safety removed in a free for all fight to the bottom slave wages, and on and on. IF THE PUKES GET THEIR WAY—-America will be killed==not the nation any of us grew up in, not the nation we want for our kiddies.
Now what do the Dumbo’s want? They want to tax the rich until there are no rich no more right? All under the notion that this will fund the government providing the counter to all those things listed above. The very things that make America the land of opportunity we value so much. The highest personal tax rate in US History was 91% marginal rate with estate taxes corporate income taxes and corporate gains taxes. HORRORS you clam? No–it was the Golden Age of American growth and prosperity==the Eisenhower years.
Now, you may claim “Its more complicated than that” and I agree totally but within all those complications, it is clear that if the Pukes get what they want in their greedy rapaciousness, America will be killed. Meanwhile, if the Dumbos got what they wanit in their greedy rapaciousness, America can return to the days of respect/success for the working man.
PUKE Big Lie No 1: Rich People provide jobs.
I challenge anyone to set forth the argument that the Super Rich need more tax cuts while the poor, working, and middle classes need service cuts. Go ahead: make that argument.
If not, wake up Fools. The Republicans want to Kill America but they can’t do it without your vote.
For confused foreigners, American schools feed children at mid-day. This is called a “school lunch”. Parents, neighbors and tribal members are not invited.
Hi, A little word from Paris, France.
I’ve been 1 Year in Junior High School in Alabama, some 20 years ago, ate the school provided lunch. It was the worst food I ever ate: bad tasting, fat, little choice and variety. Most of the children here came with their own food.
Here in France, children either eat lunch at home( they have a +/- 2 hour break) or they eat the school lunch. Parents pay for the lunches, according to their income, it’s always affordable. The lunches quality and healthiness are very important to parents, and they have a say in these matters, thru commissions.
About the soda / fruit juice choice: We don’t have that problem. At lunch, children drink tap water. No other choice. It’s the only healthy drink, and they’ve never complained about it.
Of course, when children get older, they are tempted to eat lunch at other places, like the local fast food. It’s not that bad, as long as it’s not everyday. It’s the school’s duty to be attractive enough to keep the children eating at school. And the parent’s attitude is as always most important…
#32 How dare you bring some reality to a rample? Don’t you see that’ll induce a psychological trauma on him?
On top of that, you never argue with crazy people; you just tell them they’re right and run away from them.
As a kid I hated eating the school’s food, and my parents hated paying for it.
# 36 pedro said, “…you never argue with crazy people; you just tell them they’re right and run away from them.”
You’re right……………
…”that decision is left to the judgment of the PRINCIPALS”???????? Astounding.
“Not a lot of meat in these gym mats.”