Kids lunch replaced because it was NOT healthy enough

[GeoFisher]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14...-with-nuggets/

WOW.

[DJD]

Sure would like to see some info on nutritional value of chicken nuggets. Why do I feel thus person was full of crap?? Fried food adds what value??
This kind of thing scares me. So now a school official can make a decision like this which I'm my mind is a violation of privacy.
I would be over the top pissed off!

[Tim_T]

I read that last night and was shocked. Not only does this seem illegal as hell, but the school lunch seemed like it was less healthy than the lunch she brought from home. If I were the parents and would get lawyered up and somebody would take a brutal beating on this deal.

[Tyme2fish]

Forget the lawyers. Just start the beating!!

[Bobby Headrick]

It sure would be nice if the schools would learn how to teach the children to read, write, add, subtract, etc. instead of trying to RAISE the children and butt in where they are not needed, If a chid appears in danger or sick, beat, abused, yes do something, but BUTT out, of everything else. The school systems in this country are a joke, our children are behind almost every other developed country, in education. We seem that all we want to teach in schools now is that, stay stupid live off gov. Geese. This is to much Geo.

[Big Gills]

The new lunch consists of fried nuggets and corn which is high high and high in fat!!! No wonder children are obese these days. Her homemade lunch was much healthier for her. In high school I always took a sandwich and fruit like my friends. The food they served was always hamburger and fries.The only ones that ate the fried foods were the football players cuz they worked it off in practice. Not much has changed since the 70's. You would think by now they would learn about proper nuitrition.

[kydonky]

Sure would like to see some info on nutritional value of chicken nuggets. Why do I feel thus person was full of crap?? Fried food adds what value??
This kind of thing scares me. So now a school official can make a decision like this which I'm my mind is a violation of privacy.
I would be over the top pissed off!

I read the Fox article and was left with more questions than answers.

1) the school lunch only had the chicken nuggets mentioned? I would assume there was probably a fruit and vegtable with other items in the school lunch that were not mentioned. Fair and Ballanced?

2) they mention regulations attributed to Health and Human Services. They say how these were interpited by someone but they don't say who this someone is or who employs her. So was this a decision of a local school board and not really the federal government? Who the parent sues my shed light on the answer. I bet the suit is against the local shool board.

3) there are probably over 300 children in this school minimum. How many of these kids came to school with 4 crackers and a spoon of peanut butter and then received a healthy lunch. How many would have had no lunch if it were not for the school lunch.

4) if this is truely a federal mandate to inspect all brought in lunches why is there only the one complaint in all of SC and none in other states?


So this article is just another hype grabber. There is little doubt that school lunches for developing children are very lacking in nutrition. News stories just today highlight improvements being implimented here in KY.

[GeoFisher]

I read the Fox article and was left with more questions than answers.

1) the school lunch only had the chicken nuggets mentioned? I would assume there was probably a fruit and vegtable with other items in the school lunch that were not mentioned. Fair and Ballanced?

2) they mention regulations attributed to Health and Human Services. They say how these were interpited by someone but they don't say who this someone is or who employs her. So was this a decision of a local school board and not really the federal government? Who the parent sues my shed light on the answer. I bet the suit is against the local shool board.

3) there are probably over 300 children in this school minimum. How many of these kids came to school with 4 crackers and a spoon of peanut butter and then received a healthy lunch. How many would have had no lunch if it were not for the school lunch.

4) if this is truely a federal mandate to inspect all brought in lunches why is there only the one complaint in all of SC and none in other states?


So this article is just another hype grabber. There is little doubt that school lunches for developing children are very lacking in nutrition. News stories just today highlight improvements being implimented here in KY.

Yea, FOX reports better then any of the other mainstream media outlets......But here is the article from a LOCAL station. They must be a FOX affiliated newspaper because the stated the same thing.

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclu...a-nuggets.html

[Tim_T]

I read the Fox article and was left with more questions than answers.

1) the school lunch only had the chicken nuggets mentioned? I would assume there was probably a fruit and vegtable with other items in the school lunch that were not mentioned. Fair and Ballanced?

2) they mention regulations attributed to Health and Human Services. They say how these were interpited by someone but they don't say who this someone is or who employs her. So was this a decision of a local school board and not really the federal government? Who the parent sues my shed light on the answer. I bet the suit is against the local shool board.

3) there are probably over 300 children in this school minimum. How many of these kids came to school with 4 crackers and a spoon of peanut butter and then received a healthy lunch. How many would have had no lunch if it were not for the school lunch.

4) if this is truely a federal mandate to inspect all brought in lunches why is there only the one complaint in all of SC and none in other states?


So this article is just another hype grabber. There is little doubt that school lunches for developing children are very lacking in nutrition. News stories just today highlight improvements being implimented here in KY.

Number 3 is totally irrelevant to this case. The fact that they made this child eat the school lunch, when her home lunch was sufficient is the issue here imo. This was an outrageous decision made by someone who obviously has too much control.

[pontooner]

Yea, FOX reports better then any of the other mainstream media outlets......But here is the article from a LOCAL station. They must be a FOX affiliated newspaper because the stated the same thing.

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclu...a-nuggets.html

Just for fun http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012170010 Regular Viewers of Fox News More Likely To Be Misinformed


Also about the lunch thing, the school is saying students are required to have milk and that she was told this but misunderstood and thought she needed a new lunch so she went to the cafeteria and got the schools lunch that consisted of the nuggets.

[Tim_T]

Just for fun http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012170010 Regular Viewers of Fox News More Likely To Be Misinformed


Also about the lunch thing, the school is saying students are required to have milk and that she was told this but misunderstood and thought she needed a new lunch so she went to the cafeteria and got the schools lunch that consisted of the nuggets.

Where did you read that? I didn't find it in the Carolina Journal article. In fact the article had this: While the mother and grandmother thought the potato chips and lack of vegetable were what disqualified the lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child Development said that should not have been a problem.

"With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein, your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that's the dairy," said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and statutory policy manager for the division. "It sounds like the lunch itself would've met all of the standard." The lunch has to include a fruit or vegetable, but not both, she said.

[GeoFisher]

Media Matters??

You're really using them as a legitimate source??