This HAS to be a joke.

[sking1001]

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

[f4thpathway]

It was for real. Even though technically the packed lunch was within state regs. The idea of Lunch Inspectors is absurd though.

[Jamie J. Skibicki]

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...-public-school

It's worse some places.

WHen I was in school, I would pack a lunch (hoagie with lots of meat and cheese lettuce tomato and oinion, bag of chips), eat that and then buy 3 milks and what ever was on special. I was super hungry.

[sking1001]

Wow. That reminds me, when I was very young, my Mom would pack an extra big lunch for me, and I would sell parts of it off...pretty good stuff I guess. I saved up and bought a new bike, but I should have eaten it and been bigger.

[f4thpathway]

I was a poor kid until I got a paper route. I ate whatever.

[tertius]

Also a thread in the other forum. Less civilized than this one... spar provides a bit of substance, and Hurling some insulting of the First Lady.

I think giving kids free food if they don't have enough is a pretty damn good idea, personally.

[sking1001]

Well I was surprised it hadn't already been discussed. I only searched for preschool lunch or something.

[Kyle Aaron]

Between that and stories like this, if i were living in the US, I would definitely have to homeschool my boy. Your schools are run by a mixture of leftie politically-correct wusses, and rightie paranoid fruit bats, taking the worst from each.

[Patrick]

Between that and stories like this, if i were living in the US, I would definitely have to homeschool my boy. Your schools are run by a mixture of leftie politically-correct wusses, and rightie paranoid fruit bats, taking the worst from each.

Eh, I was a product of public schools up through my undergraduate degree. Almost everyone is too busy with the business of running a school for this stuff to happen. The exceptions tend to make the news because, as exceptions, they're newsworthy. There's room for improvement, but they're far from the freakshow that a skimming of the headlines makes them seem.

[bob g]

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I think giving kids free food if they don't have enough is a pretty damn good idea, personally.

But, Tersh, taking food out of their hands to give them free food??