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[cravenchx]

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This was not a school official, and it was NOT impending on anyone else!

 

[Matthew3590]

This was not a school official, and it was NOT impending on anyone else!

Phones and other electronic devices don't impend on others either unless under certain circumstance but same with food as well.

Edit: Oh my bad it was a state official.

 

[OwlLover]

Give the government an inch, they'll take a mile.

 

[cravenchx]

Phones and other electronic devices don't impend on others either unless under certain circumstance but same with food as well.

Edit: Oh my bad it was a state official.

If, during class a phone rings, it is impending on the learning experience of others.
How would food impend on others at lunch time?
And, it was a federal official!

 

[Matthew3590]

If, during class a phone rings, it is impending on the learning experience of others.
How would food impend on others at lunch time?
And, it was a federal official!

Also the thing that impends more on "learning" in a class is the teacher trying to take it not the beep from a phone. The circumstance with food is if it would be thrown.

 

[cravenchx]

The circumstance with food is if it would be thrown.

Reread the original post. This is not about throwing food!?!

 

[Matthew3590]

Also the thing that impends more on "learning" in a class is the teacher trying to take it not the beep from a phone. The circumstance with food is if it would be thrown.

Reread the original post. This is not about throwing food!?!

I was only answering the question on how would food impend on others. Just throwing another one out their that someone who has to rely on free lunch could easily get jealous over someone who has their parents make it for them.

 

[cravenchx]

It's no one's fault that one child's parents can make them lunch while another's cannot or will not. If this causes jealousy, it's not the fault of the child with the homemade lunch. Are you placing blame on the parents who make their children's lunch? Should we take away all homemade lunches because the children get jealous? And since you're the one who brought up something that could be considered off-topic, (a cellphone in class), I'll throw this in: I get jealous when I see a Mercedes rolls down the street. Should we take it away so that I'm not jealous? Perhaps the child who gets homemade lunch is jealous of the FREE lunch that others are given? This isn't an issue with jealousy; this isn't about cellphones. There was no cellphone made mention in the article at all. Most middle and high schools allow cellphones, but only requite that they be off in case of a true emergency. If you have a problem with the policies regarding cellphones, that's fine, you're entitled to it, but you need to start a new thread.

This issue is about a lunch a mother made for her child that was considered nutritious by her, myself and many others; more nutritious than processed, deep-fried, frozen and then re-heated chicken nuggets. Here's a little idea of how those are made:

Obviously, the taking of food from a child is a horrible deal, and the power trip this federal agent was on is appalling.

The part that really disgusts me is that someone from the United States Department of Agriculture, the federal program in charge of nutrition at public schools and making sure that children eat right to avoid a lifetime of chronic disease due to diabetes and obesity, consider a processed and re-claimed meat patty to be more nutritious than a turkey breast sandwich. These people are making policies regarding what to feed our children, how to teach them about food, and what food they have to choose from. Clearly, as based on his opinion that chicken nuggets are a healthier option, they don't know healthy. Yet they alone decide what food is available to children in their learning environment. And now, not even a home-packed lunch is safe..

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

This has came up before. The school is required to feed kids by what the USDA says. That only applies to lunch bought there. If the kid brings his own food the school has no authority to intervene.

Also what is in a kids lunch (or pocket for that matter) is protected under the forth amendment. There is no age requirement to the 4th nor do you sign your 4th amendment rights away by entering a school.


I teacher that searches a child or child's lunch for contraband has broken federal law.


Could be also be debated that sack lunch is protected by the 1st amendment under religious grounds.

 

[chickened]

These are government run schools, that should explain any odd behavior by the administrators.

There is an idea being pushed by the first lady that in essence wants the federal government to force kids to eat healthy and as usual they will use government ran schools to push this agenda.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021103894.html