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Oh, here we go again.
May. 1st, 2011 11:07 amOver elsewhere they're talking about taking flavored milks out of school cafeterias. And there's Ms. Self-Righteous to say "I'm tired of people telling me what I can't feed my kids!!!"
Ma'am, nobody is telling you what you can or can't feed your children. If you want to give your children soda all day (her example was of the high school no longer selling soda, so she has to - horrors! - send one in every day (and at a cheaper price because she buys six-packs at the store rather than one can at a time from the vending machine!), and that's just WRONG!), you can go ahead and do that. Be my guest. It's your money you're spending.
If I or anybody else says something like "I don't want the schools to sell candy/chocolate milk/soda/ice cream at lunch", that's not at all the same as saying "I don't want parents to feed this stuff to their kids". Some of us might also be saying that, or saying the much more reasonable "I don't want parents to feed this stuff to their kids all the time", but even then, a move to alter what is sold in schools does not, in fact, abridge your parental rights at all. You can always send in a little something to be eaten/drunk with or after the school provided lunch.
Ma'am, nobody is telling you what you can or can't feed your children. If you want to give your children soda all day (her example was of the high school no longer selling soda, so she has to - horrors! - send one in every day (and at a cheaper price because she buys six-packs at the store rather than one can at a time from the vending machine!), and that's just WRONG!), you can go ahead and do that. Be my guest. It's your money you're spending.
If I or anybody else says something like "I don't want the schools to sell candy/chocolate milk/soda/ice cream at lunch", that's not at all the same as saying "I don't want parents to feed this stuff to their kids". Some of us might also be saying that, or saying the much more reasonable "I don't want parents to feed this stuff to their kids all the time", but even then, a move to alter what is sold in schools does not, in fact, abridge your parental rights at all. You can always send in a little something to be eaten/drunk with or after the school provided lunch.
