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Phila. school lunches: Goodbye fries,
hello fennel
Associated Press, by Kathy Matheson
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/27/2013 5:20:52 AM
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| PHILADELPHIA- It sounds more like a restaurant order than a school lunch menu: baked ziti with a side of roasted fennel salad and, for dessert, cinnamon apple rice pudding. But that´s one of the meals offered in the cafeteria at People For People Charter School in Philadelphia. And it´s served family-style. Students pass serving dishes around circular tables, where they eat off plates, not cafeteria trays, and use silverware instead of plastic utensils. People For People is one of four schools participating in the "Eatiquette" program, which was designed by local chef Marc Vetri to provide
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
nina584, 2/27/2013 5:27:57 AM (No. 9198330)
I guess the gov is the parent for these kids.This used to be teacher by parents.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Spidey, 2/27/2013 5:41:51 AM (No. 9198333)
The food really isn´t the issue here,it´s the lefts development of these kids into communal thinking.You´re no longer allowed to be an individual in schools,you´re intrinsically tried to the group.. This is what irks the left about homeschooling,the miss out of this kind of brainwashing.
Individualism and independent thinking are the left´s worse enemies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
truthfetish, 2/27/2013 6:10:11 AM (No. 9198357)
Agree 100% with #1 and #2. The consolation prize is that they may learn some table manners.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
kane toad, 2/27/2013 6:12:36 AM (No. 9198360)
how long until the silverware disappears?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rather Read, 2/27/2013 6:30:49 AM (No. 9198379)
Just what I thought, #4. I´m all for good manners, but this is what parents used to teach.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 2/27/2013 7:49:00 AM (No. 9198492)
Problem with that is #5, is that nobody taught the parents.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
turninggrey, 2/27/2013 7:53:44 AM (No. 9198507)
Wait until the shared diseases start.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
southernboy, 2/27/2013 9:04:16 AM (No. 9198625)
#7 “..Wait until the shared diseases start.”
Exactly. Will the teachers explain about ‘double-dipping´ and not using personal utensils to serve from the community bowl?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
pindarjr, 2/27/2013 9:15:21 AM (No. 9198653)
My idea of a delicious serving of "fennel" involves cake, not salad.
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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Gay Connecticut couple accused
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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz
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Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM
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The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....
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