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[Abe Scrap]

If what mom is giving little Johnny to eat in school is not healthy enough, perhaps we ought to check the home, too. Yeah, let's have the gov't check everyone's food pantries! Ya with me on this?

In One Chicago School, A Mom-Made Lunch Is Not Allowed

School lunches have always been the subject of much discussion within a school cafeteria. But, lately, they've gotten even more attention: First lady Michelle Obama and lawmakers passed the child nutrition bill aimed at bettering school lunches, last December. And star chef Jamie Oliver is leading a national campaign to prove school lunches can be healthful and cheap.

Today, the Chicago Tribune brings us word that one principal is facing the issue by taking on the old brown-paper-bag staple. Elsa Carmona of Little Village Elementary Academy on Chicago's West Side has prohibited students from bringing packed lunches from home, unless they have a medical excuse. The Tribune reports:

[hondaicivic]

[Leslie Cheswyck]

Ms. Carmona probably doesn't get enough sausage.

[comm]

It occurs to me that you would have to be pretty insulated from parents to make a decision which was obviously poorly thought out.

"As a government official who's job it is to liberate people from the slavery of free choice, I need to actively prevent parents from choosing what food their children eat. Surely they'll thank me for that."

[Leslie Cheswyck]

I mean this woman really must get some sausage into her.

[murmanjake]

yahm I know what you mean. An obsessive dieter fixated on making everyone else follow their hellish diet scheme. I see them everywhere. She just needs to eat some normal food.

[The Cosmic Hum]

[caniff]

Government knows what kids need to be eating.

And ketchup is a vegetable.

[Leon]

In a way I do sometimes wonder why a parents ability to choose for their children is so highly heralded, many parents are dumb, and what's best for the children is more important than what the parents want. If a parent wants to raise his child as a racist white supremicist is it their right, is it good. That said I doubt this will be able to be enforced.

[Kuros]

[Adam Carolla]

Assembly line + healthy food don't exactly mix.

With so many schools being under-funded, they simply don't have the staff to prepare healthy meals for hundreds of kids every day. What they do have the manpower for is throwing pans full of cheap fish sticks and pizza in the oven. I really don't see how that equates to "healthy" food for kids.

[ontheway]

[johnnyenglishteacher2]

[northway]

The bagged lunches that I took every day from elementary school through eighth grade was definitely healthier than the crap my schools were serving. Glad I dodged the nanny state.

[Steelrails]

Or the government could just give the kids a Korean cafeteria lunch. It's not the pinnacle of healthy eating- white rice, salt. But it would be light years ahead of brown bagged ham sandwiches/lunchables and fish sticks with tater tots.