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: 10-28-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:31pm
We really arent' eating any differently now than when I was a kid -- its the fact that kids don't exercise. They aren't outside riding bikes or playing ball, they are sitting in front of the tv or their Playstations.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:32pm
How about instead of spending the money for food and using whatever is left over, spend the money directly on the programs? Will people truly only give 1$ to the 4H Club if they get a donut too?
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:34pm
Girl Scout cookies are a once-a-year treat. The soda vending machine is every day. The Girl Scout cookies send the message that having a treat now and then is fine. The vending machines send the message that having a treat every single day is fine.
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Registered: 10-28-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:35pm
Yes -- people want something for their money. These fundraisers sell what people want. I don't think you'll have much luck having a fundraiser selling good healthy vegetables. And nowadays there isn't a lot of trust with these charitable organizations so people aren't as willing to just hand over cash but they will if they get a Tootsie roll or a donut.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:37pm
Must be that epidural I went and had last weekend! ;-)
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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:37pm

<<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.>>


That's just stupid. It's in everyone's best interest to let them participate however than can/want.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:39pm
We talking school pizza or girl scout cookies here? I protect my kids from girl scout cookies at all costs -- by eating them myself.
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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:39pm

Oh, becasue YOU have never gone overboard and exaggerated on this forum?


Riiiiiiight.


Did you also write the producers of Seinfeld over the "soup nazi" episode?

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:43pm

Just a note ...


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That's not feasible because of copywright and royalty issues. The costs associated with royalties are enormous. Also the costs to make a quality reproduction would be way too high as well. Nice idea, but not feasible.


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As long as those refreshements were water and veggies right?


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Not a new idea. Our pta does that already.


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Again, as long as the snacks meet your health food criteria?


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Once again, not a novel idea (pun intended! lol). Our library does that 2x a year.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 2:47pm
You ought to look into the orchestra CD thing. Our school district honors choir (5th grade, district wide) does that every year. Most of the copyright holders only demanded a pittance in royalties because it was a non-professional non-profit group. They sell the CDs for 5 bucks each. The year our son was in it we bought four -- one for us, one for him when he gets older, one for Grandma and one for the godparents.

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