Banning Home Lunches at a School Near You?

Thankfully in the Carolinas, not yet, but even though this is half way across the country I wanted to bring attention to it anyway.  Remember the other day when I wrote about my opposition to the no smoking in cars with children bill that a couple of South Carolina legislators are considering?  I said it was a bad idea because in the past the government has passed a lot of laws infringing on our personal freedoms in the name of “saving” the children.  Well, what do ya know, look what I ran across this afternoon.

Students who attend Chicago’s Little Village Academy public school get nothing but nutritional tough love during their lunch period each day. The students can either eat the cafeteria food–or go hungry. Only students with allergies are allowed to bring a homemade lunch to school, the Chicago Tribune reports.

“Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,” principal Elsa Carmona told the paper of the years-old policy. “It’s about … the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It’s milk versus a Coke.”

But students said they would rather bring their own lunch to school in the time-honored tradition of the brown paper bag. “They’re afraid that we’ll all bring in greasy food instead of healthy food and it won’t be as good as what they give us at school,” student Yesenia Gutierrez told the paper. “It’s really lame.”

The story has attracted hundreds of comments so far. One commenter, who says her children attend a different Chicago public school, writes, “I can accept if they want to ban soda, but to tell me I can’t send a lunch with my child. ARE YOU KIDDING ME????”

The AP

Granted, this is the authoritarian welfare nanny state of Chicago, but don’t think for a minute it can’t happen in Charlotte or Raleigh or Charleston.  I assure you there is some whack job fascist public “educator” somewhere amongst our two states that thinks this is a grand idea and is just salivating at the mere thought.

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