I guess the Chicago public schools know better than parents on what to feed their children? "Mom" no longer knows what is good for her child.
School's food is the only option for some kids - chicagotribune.com
Here is an example of our government's thinking as to one size fits all and they know better than the parents. I thought this was interesting. Way overstepping, and obviously some parents really are idiots who don't care for their kids properly but to ban ALL home-made lunches?
Why not set guidelines like "no energy drinks" instead of simply banning everything?
And I'm curious about the money. The school contracts out lunches to a 3rd party vendor. Since this is in Chicago is it unreasonable to ask about kickbacks
Strikes me that this is simply WRONG.
School's food is the only option for some kids - chicagotribune.com
At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago's West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home.
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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.
At Little Village, most students must take the meals served in the cafeteria or go hungry or both. During a recent visit to the school, dozens of students took the lunch but threw most of it in the garbage uneaten. Though CPS has improved the nutritional quality of its meals this year, it also has seen a drop-off in meal participation among students, many of whom say the food tastes bad.
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For many CPS parents, the idea of forbidding home-packed lunches would be unthinkable. If their children do not qualify for free or reduced-price meals, such a policy would require them to pay $2.25 a day for food they don't necessarily like.
"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," education policy professor Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach wrote in an email.
Here is an example of our government's thinking as to one size fits all and they know better than the parents. I thought this was interesting. Way overstepping, and obviously some parents really are idiots who don't care for their kids properly but to ban ALL home-made lunches?
Why not set guidelines like "no energy drinks" instead of simply banning everything?
And I'm curious about the money. The school contracts out lunches to a 3rd party vendor. Since this is in Chicago is it unreasonable to ask about kickbacks
Strikes me that this is simply WRONG.