(04-28-2015 11:11 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 10:43 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

Quote:AURORA, Colo. — A Colorado mother claims a teacher at her child's preschool refused to let the little girl eat part of her lunch because it wasn't nutritious.

Leeza Pearson, of Aurora, Colo., is upset her child wasn't allowed to finish part of her lunch.

Pearson packed her 5-year-old daughter a ham and cheese sandwich, string cheese and a 4-pack of Oreos on Friday. The child came back home from Children's Academy with the Oreos and a note from her teacher which read, in part:

"Dear Parents, it is very important that all students have a nutritious lunch. This is a public school setting and all children are required to have a fruit, a vegetable and a heavy snack from home, along with a milk. If they have potatoes, the child will also need bread to go along with it. Lunchables, chips, fruit snacks, and peanut butter are not considered to be a healthy snack. This is a very important part of our program and we need everyone's participation."

http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/nati.../26498493/

There was a thread about a disgusting lunch featuring a fish sandwich and what looked like corn a week or two ago.

To combat disgusting lunches served by the cafeteria, people suggested packing a lunch to get around the food nazis. I posted that lunches that do not follow the guidelines would be confiscated and was called out by some for proof. I provided my own interaction with lunch nazis and provided two other examples.

Lunch content monitoring is not an isolated made up thing. It is real.

When the government feels like it is their right to monitor what your children eat, we should all be concerned about the intrusion into our freedom and privacy.

me thinks we started getting fat and fatterer when this first appeared.....

(04-28-2015 12:30 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:11 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 10:43 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

Quote:AURORA, Colo. — A Colorado mother claims a teacher at her child's preschool refused to let the little girl eat part of her lunch because it wasn't nutritious.

Leeza Pearson, of Aurora, Colo., is upset her child wasn't allowed to finish part of her lunch.

Pearson packed her 5-year-old daughter a ham and cheese sandwich, string cheese and a 4-pack of Oreos on Friday. The child came back home from Children's Academy with the Oreos and a note from her teacher which read, in part:

"Dear Parents, it is very important that all students have a nutritious lunch. This is a public school setting and all children are required to have a fruit, a vegetable and a heavy snack from home, along with a milk. If they have potatoes, the child will also need bread to go along with it. Lunchables, chips, fruit snacks, and peanut butter are not considered to be a healthy snack. This is a very important part of our program and we need everyone's participation."

http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/nati.../26498493/

There was a thread about a disgusting lunch featuring a fish sandwich and what looked like corn a week or two ago.

To combat disgusting lunches served by the cafeteria, people suggested packing a lunch to get around the food nazis. I posted that lunches that do not follow the guidelines would be confiscated and was called out by some for proof. I provided my own interaction with lunch nazis and provided two other examples.

Lunch content monitoring is not an isolated made up thing. It is real.

When the government feels like it is their right to monitor what your children eat, we should all be concerned about the intrusion into our freedom and privacy.

me thinks we started getting fat and fatterer when this first appeared.....

The fatter and fatter we get is more likely linked to the increasing sedentary lifestyle of Americans and high fat/high sugar convenience foods not the food pyramid.

Kids don't play outside anymore. More Americans work in jobs that are majority desk work than 40-50 years ago. We watch too much tv and spend too many hours on computers and playing video games.

BMI rates have steadily climbed and correlate pretty closely with our increasing sedentary lifestyles i.e. desk jobs, watching television and now video gaming.

http://obesityinamerica.org/understanding-obesity

(04-28-2015 11:55 AM)gdunn Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:53 AM)Niner National Wrote:  If her mother didn't pack milk with those oreos, I support the school's decision. Oreos taste like trash without milk.

They can buy milk at the school..

I wasn't being serious (except about Oreos tasting like trash without milk)

Way to go, Moochelle!

(04-28-2015 12:22 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 12:07 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 12:04 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:49 AM)chargeradio Wrote:  I think the peanut bans have to do more with the allergy concerns, as allergic reactions to peanuts can be fatal.

Probably. Glad my son's teacher had the common sense to allow peanut butter because nobody in the class has a severe allergy.

My kid's school makes all the peanut folks (my daughter was one) sit together and allows others to eat peaunut butter products elsewhere throughout the cafeteria.

My kids' school actually has a "peanut free zone" in the cafeteria and one wing of the building has a section that is peanut freed (I am sure a hand full of the kids have allergies but cannot imagine it is that many).

My mom packed my lunch for maybe 2-3in the late 70s and early 80s. Staples were pb&j sand which, fruit, a cup of chicken noodle soup (packed in my thermos) and a hostess cupcake/Twinkie. I was all skin and bones until high when I started lifting weights and putting on mass. Biggest difference is that I played outside during recess and after school.

What dumb ass kid can't be told not eat something that will kill them. A peanut free zone? You gotta be kidding me. Does the school have a don't bang yourself in the head with a ball peen hammer zone too?

(04-28-2015 01:49 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 12:22 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 12:07 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 12:04 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:49 AM)chargeradio Wrote:  I think the peanut bans have to do more with the allergy concerns, as allergic reactions to peanuts can be fatal.

Probably. Glad my son's teacher had the common sense to allow peanut butter because nobody in the class has a severe allergy.

My kid's school makes all the peanut folks (my daughter was one) sit together and allows others to eat peaunut butter products elsewhere throughout the cafeteria.

My kids' school actually has a "peanut free zone" in the cafeteria and one wing of the building has a section that is peanut freed (I am sure a hand full of the kids have allergies but cannot imagine it is that many).

My mom packed my lunch for maybe 2-3in the late 70s and early 80s. Staples were pb&j sand which, fruit, a cup of chicken noodle soup (packed in my thermos) and a hostess cupcake/Twinkie. I was all skin and bones until high when I started lifting weights and putting on mass. Biggest difference is that I played outside during recess and after school.

What dumb ass kid can't be told not eat something that will kill them. A peanut free zone? You gotta be kidding me. Does the school have a don't bang yourself in the head with a ball peen hammer zone too?

It's not that simple; however, schools have found ways to appease both allergy and non allergy sufferers.

I have no problem with schools setting up peanut free, gluten free or whatever free zones to appease the Munchausen by Proxy helicopter parents as long as it doesn't affect me or my child.

(04-28-2015 11:24 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:23 AM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:18 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:08 AM)DexterDevil Wrote:  Peanut butter is not considered nutritious? What is this liberal nonsense?

I believe peanut butter is outlawed due to the fat content. It's a shame because peanut butter is a good source of protein, kids will eat it and it doesn't taste like crap if it isn't refrigerated which most packed lunches aren't once they get to school.

My daughter tood PBJ sandwiches to school for lunch all the time. She is one of the most fit people I know.

PB&Js are a lunch staple. I think it is idiotic that kids can't eat them now in a school lunch.

Cause someones precious might feel left out if he or she can't have one if they have a peanut allergy. I say tough schit, the whole rest of the school has to change a staple of school lunches for decades cause of that?

Errr, no. Go sit over there for the 20 minutes, it'll build character...

(04-28-2015 02:10 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:24 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:23 AM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:18 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:08 AM)DexterDevil Wrote:  Peanut butter is not considered nutritious? What is this liberal nonsense?

I believe peanut butter is outlawed due to the fat content. It's a shame because peanut butter is a good source of protein, kids will eat it and it doesn't taste like crap if it isn't refrigerated which most packed lunches aren't once they get to school.

My daughter tood PBJ sandwiches to school for lunch all the time. She is one of the most fit people I know.

PB&Js are a lunch staple. I think it is idiotic that kids can't eat them now in a school lunch.

Cause someones precious might feel left out if he or she can't have one if they have a peanut allergy.

That doesn't really make sense if you think about it. Why would a child feel left out about eating something that could kill them instantly?

(04-28-2015 01:02 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:55 AM)gdunn Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:53 AM)Niner National Wrote:  If her mother didn't pack milk with those oreos, I support the school's decision. Oreos taste like trash without milk.

They can buy milk at the school..

I wasn't being serious (except about Oreos tasting like trash without milk)

I think you need to link up to prove that

(04-28-2015 02:03 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  I have no problem with schools setting up peanut free, gluten free or whatever free zones to appease the Munchausen by Proxy helicopter parents as long as it doesn't affect me or my child.

When I started out in the fire service we would ask parents about their child's medical history on calls and maybe get "He had an appendectomy" or "He broke his arm two years ago". By the end of my career it was like writing a childhood illness and allergy book.

(04-28-2015 02:49 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 02:10 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:24 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:23 AM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:18 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  I believe peanut butter is outlawed due to the fat content. It's a shame because peanut butter is a good source of protein, kids will eat it and it doesn't taste like crap if it isn't refrigerated which most packed lunches aren't once they get to school.

My daughter tood PBJ sandwiches to school for lunch all the time. She is one of the most fit people I know.

PB&Js are a lunch staple. I think it is idiotic that kids can't eat them now in a school lunch.

Cause someones precious might feel left out if he or she can't have one if they have a peanut allergy.

That doesn't really make sense if you think about it. Why would a child feel left out about eating something that could kill them instantly?

That's the argument I've seen for some years now about NOT having a separate table for allergic kids- that they will feel ostracized or embarrassed because they are "different". So, if we can't have a separate table, then no one can bring anything with peanuts if there is a highly allergic kid in the class.

This is a private school, yes?

Quote:Questions over the note remain. Brenda Dean, the director of Children's Academy, a private preschool program...

/end thread.

(04-28-2015 04:51 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

Quote:Questions over the note remain. Brenda Dean, the director of Children's Academy, a private preschool program...

/end thread.

Not so fast my friend. You conveniently edited out a most important part:

"Questions over the note remain. Brenda Dean, the director of Children's Academy, a private preschool program through Aurora Public Schools, said she is investigating the note, adding that it should not have gone out to any parent.

So parents no longer decide what their children eat.

I prefer Ametica circa 1970 over America circa 2015.

(04-28-2015 12:30 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  me thinks we started getting fat and fatterer when this first appeared.....

I was particularly struck with the 'if they have potatoes, they will have to have bread to go along with it'

WTH?

Sugar is the national drug of choice and make no mistake, it kills.

(04-28-2015 05:21 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  So parents no longer decide what their children eat.

I prefer Ametica circa 1970 over America circa 2015.

The America of 1970 led to this obesity epidemic. America in 2015 has at least started to slow it down.

As for the actual topic on the OP, it seems silly unless there is a legitimate and acute medical reason behind it. It's preschool though, there are all sorts of silly requirements they'll come up with.

(04-28-2015 01:01 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 12:30 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 11:11 AM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(04-28-2015 10:43 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

Quote:AURORA, Colo. — A Colorado mother claims a teacher at her child's preschool refused to let the little girl eat part of her lunch because it wasn't nutritious.

Leeza Pearson, of Aurora, Colo., is upset her child wasn't allowed to finish part of her lunch.

Pearson packed her 5-year-old daughter a ham and cheese sandwich, string cheese and a 4-pack of Oreos on Friday. The child came back home from Children's Academy with the Oreos and a note from her teacher which read, in part:

"Dear Parents, it is very important that all students have a nutritious lunch. This is a public school setting and all children are required to have a fruit, a vegetable and a heavy snack from home, along with a milk. If they have potatoes, the child will also need bread to go along with it. Lunchables, chips, fruit snacks, and peanut butter are not considered to be a healthy snack. This is a very important part of our program and we need everyone's participation."

http://www.13newsnow.com/story/news/nati.../26498493/

There was a thread about a disgusting lunch featuring a fish sandwich and what looked like corn a week or two ago.

To combat disgusting lunches served by the cafeteria, people suggested packing a lunch to get around the food nazis. I posted that lunches that do not follow the guidelines would be confiscated and was called out by some for proof. I provided my own interaction with lunch nazis and provided two other examples.

Lunch content monitoring is not an isolated made up thing. It is real.

When the government feels like it is their right to monitor what your children eat, we should all be concerned about the intrusion into our freedom and privacy.

me thinks we started getting fat and fatterer when this first appeared.....

The fatter and fatter we get is more likely linked to the increasing sedentary lifestyle of Americans and high fat/high sugar convenience foods not the food pyramid.

Kids don't play outside anymore. More Americans work in jobs that are majority desk work than 40-50 years ago. We watch too much tv and spend too many hours on computers and playing video games.

BMI rates have steadily climbed and correlate pretty closely with our increasing sedentary lifestyles i.e. desk jobs, watching television and now video gaming.

http://obesityinamerica.org/understanding-obesity

Boom, hammer meat nail.