School lunches...

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Registered: 03-26-2003
School lunches...
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Thu, 12-02-2004 - 9:33am

This is being discussed rather heatedly on another board and I thought it might liven things up since we are soooooo sloooooow.


Are you allowed to eat with your kids? Can you bring in restaurant food? Any guidelines on what you can pack for your kids? Does the school have vendors? Is the school lunch program considered a necessary evil or a money maker for the school?


If there are guidelines on what you can pack, does this make you mad? Does it make you think they are taking

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:04pm

To add to your post ... should we also get rid of Girl Scout Cookies? It's not a school system, but I'd bet that most parents feel their kids get as much, if not more, influence from their fellow scouts and their troop leaders as they do from a faceless, nameless school system. So, if that influential body is not only selling cookies, but having the girls themselves sell the cookies, what kind of message does that send?






Edited 12/7/2004 2:07 pm ET ET by savcal_ok

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:07pm
I don't like kids selling Krispy Kremes or the junk in the catalogs either. At one school my kids used to go to (notice the past tense) they used to have a food fundraiser every fall. One year, they had a class party for the class with the greatest percentage of parents participating in the fundraiser. It was our practice every year for the fundraiser to simply write a check for 25 dollars to the local PTA. But this year we got a call from the fundraising chair to tell me that that wouldn't count as participation since some parents couldn't afford to write a check to the PTA and they wanted to make it as fair as possible. Hello, if you can't afford to write a check for ten bucks to the PTA, you can't afford an overpriced pizza, either. So I asked her, "You are telling me that you would rather me spend 10 bucks on a pizza I don't want, and the PTA gets five of that, then me writing a check for 25 and you get all of that?" Her answer was that was the only way it was "fair." I'm sorry, that's just plain goofy.
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Registered: 09-08-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:09pm
It is a horrible message and must be stopped. Obviously there is no free will left in the world, these poor kids are being forced by their principals to chug soda so the school will have money. Trust me, my eyes have been opened and I shall be purchasing bubble wrap in quantity today. And the next time those pesky kids come to my door with donuts, I will march them right in and teach them about the evils of doughnuts and help them rise against their oppresors and demand that only organic whole foods may be sold to raise money. Geesh, I am out--have fun and take my helmet for protection:)
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:10pm
The big difference is that the purchasers there are ADULTS.
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Registered: 07-20-2004
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:12pm

I find the whole nazi thing really offensive. You've hardly experienced any sort of actual flamage or invective that would ordinarily accompany the usage of the term "nazi"; what is everyone who disagrees with you in any way a nazi now, forcing you to debate?

I think it was really uncalled for.

Karen

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Registered: 03-27-2000
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:19pm

I hadn't really given much thought to food fundraisers.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:25pm

Holy smokes is that dumb, but classic.

I'm not a big fan of schools using kids to peddle crap unrelated to the subject of the funds and which no one needs either, but at least the purchasers in this kind of situation are adults. (You'd think it would make sense to have orchestra kids selling tapes of their orchestra playing, tickets and refreshments at the concerts, football fundraisers selling hats or Tshirts with the school logo or snacks at the games, the library fundraiser selling books, wouldn't you?)

(BTW, Lois, nice to be agreein' with you today!) (tips hat)

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:27pm
On Hanukkah, no less.
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Registered: 10-28-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:28pm
Yeah, they buy it for their kids.
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Registered: 10-28-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:29pm
Well maybe if people would actually read what she wrote instead of twisting it into something else, she wouldn't have to use the term "nazi".

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