Lunch Police Strike West Hoke AGAIN!!

That day, Zambrano said she picked Jazlyn up from school and asked if she ate her lunch.

“She’s not picky about food but you have to be on top of her,” she explained.

When Jazlyn said she didn’t eat what her mother had made her, Zambrano went to her teacher and demanded to know what happened. She said the teacher told her an official had come through that day to inspect students’ lunches and that those who were lacking certain food groups were sent to the cafeteria. After she received her cafeteria food, the teacher told Zambrano, Jazlyn was told to put her homemade lunch back in her lunchbox and set it on the floor.

Zambrano said the teacher told her it was not the first time student lunches have been inspected, and that officials come “every so often.”

The Blaze

You folks in Hoke County, if you have a child enrolled in pre-school pull them out.  Pull them out now.  That is one sure fire way of putting an end to this nonsensical crap.  And the rest of you with kids in the Hoke County school system, get off your lazy behinds, show up at the next school board meeting and you tell those fascist educrats that under no uncertain terms is this so-called lunch inspector to set foot in those schools again or there will be hell to pay.  Stand up for your parental rights!

The policing of children’s food at West Hoke has been portrayed as an isolated incident, but a curious memo Jazlyn brought home to her mother seems to point to something more.

The memo Jazlyn brought from the school outlines the necessary nutritional requirements students’ homemade lunches must contain: two servings of fruit or vegetables, one serving of dairy, one serving of grain and one serving of meat or meat substitute. Included with the memo was a separate sheet, this one a bill for the cafeteria food Jazlyn was served.

The memo, dated Jan. 27 with the subject line “RE: Healthy Lunches,” was signed by school principal Jackie Samuels and said, while “we welcome students to bring lunches from home … it must be a nutritious, balanced meal with the above requirements. Students, who do not bring a healthy lunch, will be offered the missing portions which may result in a fee from the cafeteria.”

Click here to see the memo

Zambrano, who’s volunteered at the school in the past, said she was never told about any such nutritional requirements before her daughter’s lunch was replaced.

“That‘s not really the school’s responsibility,” she said

That’s exactly right, it’s not their responsibility, but they’ve been able to take it on because parents are not paying enough attention to the madness overtaking their schools by educative bureaucrats.  This should have never been allowed to happen in the first place and the parents have to stop this immediately and send a clear message that this kind of government encroachment in the lives of our families will not be tolerated.

Principal Samuels previously told the Carolina Journal he “didn’t know anything about” parents being charged for cafeteria meals after the first preschooler’s mother — who has not been identified — came forward.

Bull.  He’s lying.

Bob Barnes, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, told the McClatchy News Service Thursday that the first preschooler to make headlines just misunderstood her teacher when she thought she was told to ditch her homemade lunch for one from the cafeteria: the cafeteria items were only meant to supplement the food groups missing from the homemade lunch.

“We are not the lunch bag police,” Barnes told McClatchy. “We would never put a child in any type of embarrassing situation. But we are responsible to see that every child gets a nutritious meal.”

No, Mr. Barnes!  No, it’s not!  Your responsibility is to see that these kids are getting the education their parents are paying for.  It’s to teach them how to read and write and think.  It’s not to feed them.  It’s not tell them what to eat.  It’s not to tell them what to think.  You are not their parent!

In a statement to The Blaze, the Division of Child Development and Early Education said it is investigating what happened but flatly denied any of its employees or contractors “instructed any child to replace or remove any meal items.” The division issued a similar statement to McClatchy even after Barnes said it was one of their agents who examined the lunches.

Again, more lies, and I don’t even know why they would try to lie about this one when two parents have already spoken up and the school even admitted they were there!  Apparently the Division of Child Development and Early Education knows what they’re doing is wrong or they wouldn’t be so secretive and dishonest about it.

I’m telling you, you people in Hoke County had better take a few minutes out of your “busy” day to actually pay some freaking attention to your child’s education.  You’ve got a rogue government school system trampling over your role as a parent and if you don’t stand up and put a stop to this then you are just as much responsible for it.

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