Chicago school bans homemade lunches

[gremcint]

actually here's a question, are the meals kosher?

[Kheldarson]

*snerk* Are you kidding me? There's no way the meals are kosher.

[Andara Bledin]

I used to get free lunches in high school. They were actually pretty decent.

But still, that doesn't make this policy any less bullshit.

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[Racket_Man]

Unless things have changed since I graduation almost 25 years ago, school cafeteria "food" is gross. I flat-out refused to eat that crap. I packed a lunch every day. Even if the food was halfway decent, I'm kind of a picky eater, and there's a lot of stuff I just don't like.

I've seen some shitty moves by our schools, but I never thought they'd pull something like this. I hope some parent takes them to court and the school board gets their asses handed to them.

my grade school had somewhat decent food.

I remember HS lunches from 35 years ago. the "hamburger" someone whispered the word meat over the soy mix, the "pizza" was some kinda thin cardboard crust with something that may or may not have been tomato sause with something that may or may not have been cheese (at one time) and meat (what meat??? OHHHH those little black dots there under the cheese???)

the only really GOOD thing about our cafeteria was the dinner rolls/buns. they ROCKED your world. the funny thing is 30 or so years later I find people on Classmates begging for the recipe.

[Lace Neil Singer]

People who do not qualify for "free" or "Reduced" lunches are going to end up paying a shit-ton of money to eat the school's rancid food.

I'll pull my kid out of that school, pronto. We were dirt poor growing up and still didn't qualify for free or reduced lunches. I can't imagine my parents having to spend upwards of $3 a day for lunches for two kids.

Same. My parents would have pulled me out of a school that banned packed lunches. My mum always tried to give me a healthy lunch; it wasn't her fault that I used to buy loads of junk on the way to school to supplement it, due to my compulsive eating disorder.

By the way, my school tried to give healthy options; a choice of a wilted brown salad with yucky cheapo salad cream or a so called "proper" meal which was usually weird brown stew stuff with mystery meat and lumpy plastic mash. The only thing worth eating in the canteen was the junk.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

My class had a zero tolerance policy for bullshit policies. .

Now THAT is the first "zero tolerance policy" I could wholeheartedly get behind.

[DrFaroohk]

I hate it when big brother does this. It's not so bad that they insist the kids eat school lunches, but where I come from, if you want something done, you're responsible for it. Which means that if the school insists the kids eat their lunch, then the school can pay for it too.

if the school doesn't want to pay for it, then the parents can pay for the lunches. And if the parents are paying for the lunches, then the parents can pack whatever they damn well please.

[IDrinkaRum]

My daughter would be going hungry at least 4 times a week if the county I live in decided to do that.

Let's hope that school doesn't have an autistic children who attend because they'd probably all go hungry.

One little boy in my daughter's class for a whole month would only eat green beans. Every day. For a month. Nothing else. Then it was on to something else.

If my daughter doesn't like the smell of something, she won't eat it. (The only candy I can safely keep in my cupboard that I know my daughter won't snag is York Peppermint Patties as she hates the smell of mint). If the texture doesn't sit right on her tongue, she'll spit it out and refuse to eat it.

I can get her to consistently eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, bologna sandwiches, chicken nuggets, and popcorn shrimp. She'll eat green beans and broccoli most of the time. But otherwise? It's a crapshoot on whether she'll eat it. It's really frustrating.

Today she wanted a Lunchables thing for lunch. She got that along with a Capri Sun juice drink plus a go-gurt thing to go along with it. That's it. Oh, and she got a Nemo Fruit Snack for snack time.

Yeah ... I'd be raising Holy Hell over this if it came to my school/county school district.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

if the school doesn't want to pay for it, then the parents can pay for the lunches. And if the parents are paying for the lunches, then the parents can pack whatever they damn well please.

Thank you. Exactly.

Yeah, Rum, I hadn't even thought of that. Or the kosher angle.

My nephew suffers from some sort of eating disorder (I don't know what it's called). He can't tolerate certain textures. They literally make him gag, even if it's something he likes the taste of. He's having to undergo therapy for it. He's always been like that and I don't know if he'll outgrow it or not. So eating is kind of traumatic for him because sometimes he genuinely wants to eat whatever it is he can't eat. My sister would have someone's ass for breakfast over this.

[tropicsgoddess]

That is the most asinine thing I've ever heard of! Ban homemade lunches to make kids eat healthier at school, WTF is that?!! I honestly don't see how processed school lunches can be healthier than a brown bag lunch. Besides the kids with allergies, there's the kids that are fussy eaters and you have the parents financial issue to think of too. Not everyone can afford a school lunch.

[DrFaroohk]

If they did this at my school I think I'd have all kinds of fun with it. Send my kids to school with a bag lunch that's booby trapped. The second a teacher grabs it to take it away, it explodes animal blood and whiskey all over them.

what sucks about the exceptions is that once you make one, you've got to make more. Ok, diabetics can bring food that matches their needs. Lactose intolerant or food allergic people can bring their food. Now autistic children can bring their own food because it makes them more comfortable. Ok, now other mentally handicapped people can also bring their food.

But what about other people? Me, I hate seafood. Anything that swims, (excepting tuna, I love tuna!) is disgusting to me. If they're having fishburgers, I would get sick. Can I bring my own lunch?

I know, let's develop a SYSTEM! Put people in charge of it, requiring doctors notes and constant monitoring and supervising to make sure certain people are allowed to bring their own lunch, provided they filled out the right forms and went through proper channels. There will be people in the lunchroom supervising this at all times. If you bring your own lunch but don't have your special Bag Lunch ID, you get sent home for the day or something.

OR...the school system can just pull it's head out of its ass, leave the issue alone, let kids eat whatever they want, and actually do something PRODUCTIVE with their time and resources like...I dunno...TEACH????

[Crazedclerkthe2nd]

I just came here to post this but someone already did. God help me if my kids ever end up in a school that does this. I will either find another one for them or keep them at home.

Anyone who thinks this a good idea ought to have their head checked.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

My city didn't even participate in the school lunch program until a few years ago. Kids had to bring their own lunches from home.

When I got to high school, the district allowed pizza and sub places to sell their items in the cafeteria. I guess it was sort of baby steps on the way toward getting back into the hot lunch program.

If this kind of law were in effect, kids would have no choice but to shell out for greasy pizza and subs every day. This is an "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" rule if I've ever seen one.

[insertNameHere]

This is an "i'm from the government and i'm here to help" rule if i've ever seen one.

... Now give me your lunch money !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Greenday]

If my daughter doesn't like the smell of something, she won't eat it. (The only candy I can safely keep in my cupboard that I know my daughter won't snag is York Peppermint Patties as she hates the smell of mint). If the texture doesn't sit right on her tongue, she'll spit it out and refuse to eat it.

Today she wanted a Lunchables thing for lunch. She got that along with a Capri Sun juice drink plus a go-gurt thing to go along with it. That's it. Oh, and she got a Nemo Fruit Snack for snack time.

Sounds a lot like me. Don't like the smell of something or if the texture is weird, fuck that shit.

...Lunchables pizza and a Capri Sun pacific cooler sound amazing right now.