Sounds very much like something my kid would do.
There is similar thinking at work wherever you see signs at schools admonishing parents who send dessert foods with their kidās lunch and then provide fruit juices and crackers during snack time. Juice and processed grains are really just sugar. That kidās lunch sounds pretty good to me.
Iām not ālikingā the post because you got sick, but because itās their own fault that you threw up on the table.
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I donāt see HFCS on the ingredient listā¦ I see glucose syrup, but thatās really, really different from HFCS (in terms of sugar).
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Potatoes are tubers - starchy roots. Theyāre technically vegetables because of this, but their nutritional value is that of a staple food such a grains or starchy fruits like plantain and breadfruit.
Nutritionally speaking, mashed potatoes is much closer to bread than it is to your ordinary āvegetableā fare, being almost nothing but straight carbohydrates. The point of eatting vegetables is to supply your body with certain nutrients and with dietary fiber - veggies give you vitamins and help you poop, and not much else.
Potatoes donāt give you either, they give you straight calories - hence why they are a staple food. You can live off nothing but potatoes pretty easily, but itās pretty much impossible to live off only carrots without eatting mountains of them - they just are so lacking in calories.
Grains arenāt much different. The primary point of eatting grain products is to supply yourself with calories from carbohydrates. Sure, whole grains add a little bit of fiber to your diet, which is nice compared to straight potatoes, but thatās not the point - if you want vitamins and fiber, eat fruits and veggies. āRitzā crackers are essentially no different nutritionally than mashed potatoes.
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Schools are getting scary.
I thought I had it bad, years back, and ever since graduating Iāve felt grateful for not having to ever go back to that little microcosm of ignorance and stupidity, but more and more I see signs that things have just gotten even worse since I escaped.
If I had to put up with this sort of garbage when I was younger, Iām not sure I wouldnāt have ended up going mad.
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Letās see - at US$2.59 per 16 oz box of Ritz Crackers, with 28 servings per box at 5 crackers per serving, someoneās pocketing a lot of change.
A buck a cracker for Ritz? Seriously?
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Follow the money, as they sayā¦
Or maybe the breadcrumbs?
Yeah, Iām a little confused. The hed states the parent was fined for not including Ritz crackers, when the story says that she was charged $10 for not including a grain, and that the daycare facility (which, the last I checked, was not a school) was the one who added the charge.
And can someone familiar with the situation fill us in? I looked up the Manitoba Child Care Association, and it appears to be just thatāan association. It doesnāt seem to be any sort of government agency, nor do they appear to offer daycare services. Whatās going on here? Are daycare facilities in Manitoba/Canada as a whole required to serve lunches that cover all the foodgroups as outlined in some Act or another?
So many people here seem to have all the answers, without anything more than an op-ed thatās all sizzle and no steak.
Amusing that weāre going all ānanny stateā when the parent is the one whoās a teacher (I feel dirty saying that, too, because my wife is one of them evil teachersāitās not their fault, honest!)
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Plot Twist: The child has a gluten allergy.
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At least itās not Comic Sans.
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Me too. Didnāt think to clarify that at the time.
Thatās exactly what I was thinking. And in this case, complaints about ānanny stateā would be exactly right.
I would be really uncomfortable if I had teachers checking my lunch box every day.
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You must have something to hideā¦
And Cosby solved the problem of his chocolate cake not having a fruit by giving his children grapefruit juice to drink.
Not to mention being sent back to his room which is where he wanted to be in the first place.
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Itās quite possible that the single stupidest school lunch policy on the planet comes courtesy of a strange interpretation of the Manitoba Governmentās Early Learning and Child Care lunch regulations (an earlier version of this article incorrectly pointed at the Manitoba Child Care Association as the source of the strangely interpreted policy).
So apparently it is a government service, but my guess is that the article is using āfineā to mean āfinancial punishmentā rather than āfinancial punishment paid to a government authority for a crime or other offenseā.
I wonder how many kids have complained about their teachers taking their candy for āhealth reasonsā.
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Sorry, Iām not seeing how youāre getting that itās apparently a government service. When I look up the Manitoba Governmentās Early Learning and Child Care, I get a website outlining the regulations that childcare must follow to be licensed. Unless Manitoba or Canada use a different definition of licensing than Iām aware of, that doesnāt sound like it absolutely follows that this was a government entity at fault.
Here in Canadaās Pants, in Illinois, my mother-in-law had to comply with a number of State and Federal regulations to become licensed. Receiving a license no more made her a branch of the government than my carrying an Illinois driverās license makes me a state employee. When my girls were in daycare, our daycare provider insisted on us complying with a number of regulations that she would be fined for if she was found in violation. I bet she wishes she thought of charging people extra.
Iām not really wanting to argue semantics, but the story just makes me think itās wildly inaccurate, and thereās so very little information thereā¦but then, I am commenting on a website that tends to be filled with the liberal equivalent of Freepersā¦
My wife has done that. Itās never for health reasons. Itās usually because some asshole kid is teasing another kid about how he doesnāt have any of his own, or because the kid keeps messing with the packaging instead of paying attention. :->
