So I’ve been listening to Rush every morning, having a regular school run now, and he mentioned a story about a little girl whose lunch was confiscated by her school’s resident food Nazi because it wasn’t healthy enough. It was a turkey sandwich and a banana.
No, really.
This story strikes a little too close to home at the Hyacinth household, as I recently received a weekly update from the little Bluebell’s new teacher at her publicly funded charter school, reminding parents to pack healthy snacks and informing us that anything deemed unhealthy by the teacher will be confiscated and discarded.
Needless to say, I did not take this news gracefully. I read the offending passage to Mr. HG, who immediately demanded a meeting be set up with the principal. I’m telling you, kids, these things do not sit well with me. I’m not ready to cede control of my child’s upbringing to the bloated bureaucracies of the state of California. I’m done with this place. The people who choose to remain here are comfortable with allowing the state to take all of their money and redistribute it, all the while intruding upon their lives with increasing frequency. I can’t take it anymore.
It is not the job of the government to raise my child or tell me how to live my life. This intrusion into what I feed my child is just one more calculated power grab by a government that wants to raise my child for me so that they can control how she thinks and what she does. It’s bad here in SoCal, but it’s becoming the norm everywhere. It’s unacceptable.
Parents, it’s time to take back the responsibility of raising our children. It’s a tough job, but we must do it. No one else is qualified to raise your child. Let’s take back our kids.
That’s right.
In a completely ordinary tone, ask the next person that tries a stunt like this if they know your child’s individual preferences, dislikes and personality traits. Ask if they accept responsibility (financial and otherwise) for providing all meals for your child and for all lifestyle-related medical expenses.. If the answer to any question is “No, of course not” then respond “(quietly) Then what my child is eating is (at the top of your voice) NONE OF YOUR F***ING BUSINESS. Since I have all the responsibility here, I GET TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS, so butt the **** out.”.
This is likely to draw objections that you are “disrespectful” in using profanity or some such noise. Suggested reply: “Wrong, what’s disrespectful is someone who accepts no responsibility for the outcome and who doesn’t know my child anywhere near as well as I do trying to tell me I am too stupid to raise him/her. What arrogance.”
As with computers, we need to remind government bureaucrats that they work for us, not the other way around.
True that.
Speaking, April, of civil institutions abusing their given authority, did you catch this piece on the latest TSA missteps?
‘Ellen Terrell was asked by a female TSA screener “Do you play tennis?” When Terrell asked why, the screener responded, “You just have such a cute figure.”
Terrell was then told to go through the naked body scanner not once but a second time. She then heard the TSA screener talking into her microphone saying, “Come on guys, alright, alright, one more time.”
After Terrell was forced to undergo a third blast of radiation from the body scanner, the male TSA agents in the back room who were obviously enjoying the show tried to send her through yet again to see more images of her naked body.
“Guys, it is not blurry, I’m letting her go. Come on out,” the female TSA screener said, finally ending the ordeal.’
It’s not blurry – wow, there’s a relief.
They are considering adding a person that could act as a passenger advocate, but as the advocate would also be a TSA employee, they are not sure that would fix the problem. My guess is ‘no’.
I just love the TSA.
Needless to say, we are paying for these “services”. The public needs to exert its authority and reign these clowns in.
If I think about this much longer, my head may explode. Muthertruckers are driving me nuts.
Well, if a picture of a gun or knife gets you kicked out of school, paste a pic of full cornacopia in the lid of the lunchbox. Or teach the youngins to draw one. And teach the inspector where potato chips come from. If they were Pringles, don’t ask me though.
I would bet that the school receives money for every student “requiring” school-provided lunches and every false positive adds to the check. And someone has to drink that three-week old fat-free milk. It’s starting to stink up the cooler.
A coworker of mine recently had it out with her 1st grader’s Principle. Her son’s teacher confiscated a cupcake from him because she thought he already had too many sweets in his lunch. The excessive sweets consisted of the cupcake, yogurt and a apple juice box. He also had a sandwich. (if my recollection is correct)
Who ate the cupcake?
Good question!
It was tossed after a single bite by the union employee when it was found not to contain pot.
I am so angry about this I cannot even discuss it coherently.
So, I’ll note a side issue, just for laughs:
I am so angry about this I cannot even discuss it coherently.
So, I’ll note a side issue, just for laughs:
While the mother and grandmother thought the potato chips and lack of vegetable were what disqualified the lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child Development said that should not have been a problem.
“With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein, your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that’s the dairy,” said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and statutory policy manager for the division. “It sounds like the lunch itself would’ve met all of the standard.” The lunch has to include a fruit or vegetable, but not both, she said.
There are no clear restrictions about what additional items — like potato chips — can be included in preschoolers’ lunch boxes.
(My emphasis. Thank-you to Pundette for the link.)
So, another area of private life that the government decided to put itself in charge of, spawning yet another horde of “inspectors” who can “interpret” any guideline or rule to satisfy their own neuroses and/or hidden agendas.
And another thing! ;) I’d love to see a nutritional analysis of the “nuggets” that the State is teaching our children are a healthful protein. How much salt? How much fat? How much refined white flour in the coating? And what part(s) of the chicken?
Crunchy, salty… I bet that’s how they got ‘em to eat Soylent Green.
(Cross-posted at Pundette)
“Crunchy, salty… I bet that’s how they got ‘em to eat Soylent Green.”
Funny. I laughed.
Not to mention the garlic ranch dipping sauce.
Why don’t you just grab the teachers lunch, and take her lunch money while you’re at it, and see if she likes it.
The bald faced assumption of authority that has not been ceded them – it makes me ill. Who in the hell do they think they are, looking through kid’s lunch boxes and grabbing up whatever looks tasty to them. Oh, they’re throwing it away. Well, who asked ‘em to? Somebody put those things in there with care and concern. A turkey sandwhiche and a banana, forsoothe. That sure as hell better not have ended up in the teacher’s after school snack.
The creeps.
Forget California, it’s toast–come to Texas. Sounds like you might like it here. If not Texas, Arizona or New Mexico or Oklahoma, or maybe (rural mountain country) Colorado.
Just let any other refugees know that they should remember why they’re fleeing California and should leave behind the kind of attitudes that ruined that once grand state.