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School Lunch Fiasco: Only the Beginning
National Review Magazine, by Stanley Kurtz
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Posted By:Scottyboy, 9/25/2012 10:40:00 AM
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| Drudge today links a student protest video objecting to Michelle Obama’s school lunch regulations, and stories about school lunch complaints are cropping up everywhere.(snip)Her child happened to attend one of the first schools in the country to use textbooks created to teach Obama’s new national curriculum. Most Americans have no idea that the president has circumvented the legal and constitutional prohibitions and imposed a national school curriculum on the states. Nor will they wake up to this disturbing fact until a second Obama term.
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Comments: It's not only the lunches, it's also the curriculum. I haven't heard about this before. This is beyond the pale. Intentional dumbing down of OUR children. These people need to go - NOW! Please read this.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Straitpath, 9/25/2012 10:44:50 AM (No. 8888595)
Son is a sixth grade teacher. He claims by federal law he must accompany his students to lunchroom and oversee their lunch. If they have a pizza slice they cannot have bread. They must take fruits and vegetables which are often thrown away. The wealthier kids bring their own lunches.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
OdinsAcolyte, 9/25/2012 10:49:05 AM (No. 8888613)
I must say they have no authority to do anything about school lunches....so why does everybody seem to give a rat's a**? Ignore the words of these fools.
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lostinmassachusetts, 9/25/2012 10:49:49 AM (No. 8888617)
What give Michelle Obama the right to dictate the policies of our school lunch programs? She wasn't elected to any office. And her husband's election to the presidency was a terrible mistake, which many/most now acknowledge and wish to correct.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Scottyboy, 9/25/2012 11:08:40 AM (No. 8888684)
If you think the lunch edicts are bad, read the article.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Davids918, 9/25/2012 11:35:12 AM (No. 8888770)
We don't care! You eat what we say you'll eat. You'll learn what we say you'll learn. You'll receive the medical care we say you'll receive - not that Mayo-clinic level care you believe you'll received.
And your parents will STILL vote for us liberal Democrats or we'll stop their welfare checks, food stamps, etc...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
readaholic, 9/25/2012 11:56:56 AM (No. 8888841)
WaPoo has appparently removed their page demonstrating the lameness of the teaching method that Kurtz links to.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
oriton, 9/25/2012 12:15:21 PM (No. 8888910)
Why do people start doing what obama mandates when his mandates are illegal or unconstitutional? How does it happen that a school curriculum gets changed just because he says so? The pipeline should be proceeding. Ignore him; he is not a king!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
farmwife, 9/25/2012 12:21:08 PM (No. 8888928)
And of course, the school where the Obama girls go are not required to follow these mandates. It's a private school.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jimjr, 9/25/2012 12:42:16 PM (No. 8888997)
#2, It's the "Golden Rule"... "Them's that have the gold make the rules."
Obama and the progressives dream of a "Demolition Man" future. For those who don't see eye-to-eye.
(Denis Leary as) Edgar Friendly: You live up top, you live Cocteau's way: what he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other choice, come down here, maybe starve to death.
School lunches are only the beginning.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
attorneyforfreedom, 9/25/2012 2:56:25 PM (No. 8889366)
Did anyone see the picture of the moooch on Drudge report by this article? Yikes! That is one ugly -----
I am so glad I don't have kids in public school. I never needed some nosy do-gooder to tell me how to feed my children.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
judy, 9/25/2012 4:01:07 PM (No. 8889511)
The sad part is she is far from being a model for eating lite lunches.
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