Oct 5, 2012
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A New Jersey school district has ordered the PTA to stop selling ice cream to students on campus because the longtime fundraising violates state and federal law.
For years the PTA in Parsippany, New Jersey sold ice cream once a week on campuses across the district. The money was used to fund cultural arts programs and field trips for the students.
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But earlier this week, the district superintendent sent a letter to the group informing the parents that those tiny cups of ice cream could no longer be sold on campus.
“We don’t know the full extent of the issue, but the PTA cannot sell ice cream during our lunch time hour,” PTA president Liz Kadian told Fox News. “It’s disturbing to many parents.”
Supt. LeRoy Seitz told Fox News that the district has no choice in the matter.
“While we fully understand that our students enjoyed the PTA ice cream fundraisers in the past and that the ice cream sale fundraiser was very successful for our PTAs, we cannot approve activities, including PTA ice cream sales that are in violation of state regulations,” he said in a statement.
The law forbids any food sale fundraising efforts during the “hours when our school nutritional program is in operation.”
“It is unfortunate that we cannot permit the PTA ice cream sales during the hours that lunch is being served and again, we have asked our principales to work with his or her PTA to find other opportunities to fundraise that are in compliance with state regulations,” he said.
“I think it’s ridiculous and a majority of the parents feel the same way,” Kadian told Fox News. “It’s a once-a-week treat.”
Dozens of parents are voicing their extreme displeasure about the new ice cream ban on the Parsippany Patch website.
“I can only imagine what will be next,” one parent wrote. “Will the school board start checking lunch boxes making sure that parents did not pack too many Twinkies or yodels?”
“Whether it is federal, state or local government-mandated, another piece of childhood innocence is being taken away,” another parent wrote. “How sad that an elementary school child can’t look forward to buying something as simple as an ice cream bar once a week.”
Last week more than 1,000 students at Parsippany Hills High School staged a strike against the cafeteria to protest federal guidelines governing portion size. As a result, a number of parents are now packing lunches for their children.
Kadian said she understands the USDA’s concerns over healthy lunches – but she noted that the ice cream they sold met state guidelines. The ice cream cups contained about four bites of – and the ice pops were sugar-free.
Teachers also used the weekly ice cream sale as an incentive – offering students the chance to earn certificates for a free treat.
But Kadian said the bigger issue is fundraising. Without the ice cream sales, many student activities could be jeopardized.
She said the PTA will be meeting soon to discuss their options.
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First attack small things separated. Then make sure advertize it as if they were a small and irrelevant, so people won't care about them. Them step by step make bigger and bigger attacks, always making sure it's "No big deal" until the shit hits the fan and everyone has a stained shirt.
Conspiracies are fun and kinda scary when they're true.
What's next NJ? Banning diners from selling Pork Roll and Egg on a Hard Roll at 3am? May it never be!
I went all the way through high school eating one nutty buddy every day for my entire lunch. My more nourishing meal was dinner. These food dictators ought to get a life. Do we need to add a constitutional amendment for freedom of food choices?
You do not have the freedom to sell whatever you want on public school grounds. With that said this is ridiculous and I will personally be contacting my representatives and making them aware of my ridicule for this portion of the nutritional mandate.
Nutty buddy eh? Welcome to the club. It was a nice treat at lunch time back in the good ole days.
This justifies civil disobedience. Go ahead and sell the treats and see if there are arrests and, if so, go inot the wagons singing "We Shall Overcome."
You think groups have the right to trespass and sale food products on public school property? I do not agree with this mandate, but breaking the law does nothing to effect change. Contact your representatives and vote for people who will effect change.
Who's going to enforce the law? I'd love to see cops go to the school to arrest taxpaying parents for selling ice cream to raise money for their children. Yeah. That will go over well.
Trespassing is a crime and being a taxpayer does not grant you any special access to public school grounds. Would there be outcry? Sure I expect there would be, but the cops would not care they would enforce the law.
Well maybe that's what it takes to get things changed. We need to stand up to these dictators who want to control our lives. Push the issue. Say enough is enough and stop following their rules. Force them to waste money to jail us. Force the issue and make everybody wake up and realize how much of our freedoms we are losing in the name of public health, or security or safety or whatever asinine excuse they use.
Exactly! The state is getting their marching orders from the Obama administration and Michelle's takeover of the government-controlled schools. The Obama's have got to go.
Patrick, You just don't get it do you. IT IS THE PARENTS AND KIDS SCHOOLS they pay the bilss through taxes THEY make the rules.
The only thing that's going to start bringing the necessary attention to these issues is protesting and challenging these foolish regulations/laws. Too many people have no idea what's going on, how the government is getting far too involved where their noses don't belong. The more press coverage, the more people will start raising eyebrows and pushing back. The time for change is now and I have little faith in our politicians at this point.
Nobody will get arrested. What will happen is the school district will lose federal funding for not complying with the nutritional mandate. This is what happens when we depend on federal money. When the government is able to give you everything you need they will have the power to take away everything you have.
Patrick Mares Your Representatives ARE the ones who made this idiotic law. And to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson… Once in a while, a little Revolution is not a bad thing.
Patrick Mares Its SELL, not sale. Your high school education is revealing itself friend.
@Patrick Mares….I do beleive the taxpayers own the school and the goverment is suppose to represent the taxpayers. Therefore, they are not tresspassing if you wish to get technical.
ALL GOVERMENT IS OWNED BY THE TAXPAYERS….BUT THAT POINT SEEMS TO BE LOST ON MANY.
Patrick…get a grip…the OCCUPY jerks broke dozens of laws, day after…on private, state and federal property…eight in DC even…they were allowed o tdo whaever they wanted…
Any cop dumb enough to billy club or mace a ice cream selling mother would face a sudden career end.
The school could possibly lose state or federal funding.
If what you are saying is true then all those individuals who laid it on the line practicing civil disobedience during the civil rights movement should have left well enough alone since everything they did violated state and many federal laws. You know the ole blacks at the back of the bus, separate but equal restrooms, jim crow etc, All of those were state and federal laws that were broken by peoples during the civil rights movement and hailed as a stepping stone to civil right legistation being passed. Please don't speak about something you know nothing about, try reading our history first. Civil disobedience works, and I suggest they try it before we lose all our rights in the name of the Gov't doing what they think is best for its citizens.
Patrick Mares : If our founding father listened to the Patrick Mares of the world we would still be giving our allegiance to the queen…
Patrick Mares While I don't condone breaking any laws or rules, not one of these law-making characters have held up for display as proof of the so-called 'laws'. For all anyone knows, these rules are brought into sudden effect because some school district is pissed off for losing their funding for one reason or another.
Patrick Mares – Really? Tell that to Walesa. Civil disobedience is as old as governments themselves.
Patrick Mares – You can't trespass on what you own. The PUBLIC school property belongs to the people. Not the government.
I don't think Patrick Mares is advocating people being arrested. I think he's simply ensuring that folks are "forewarned" about what could happen to them should they engage in "civil disobedience" and sell the ice cream to the kids. Nothing in his comments indicate that he's an avid supporter of Mrs. Obama's "starve the kids" program. In fact, I'd take an educated guess that he's probably in support of this sort of action.
As a teacher, I see the frustration daily. The kids miss the "favorites" that they've had on the menu throughout their time in high school. They aren't angry with the folks working in the cafeteria, as they know that ultimately they aren't the ones responsible for making the decisions on what can and cannot be served. They are saving their wrath and disdain for the person that we've "elected" to be the first lady.
I've seen more and more kids packing their lunches in recent weeks, and I suspect that the trend will continue. I did stop by our Food Service Director's office yesterday, and told her that Michelle Obama said "howdy." She threw me out of her office.
With regards to trespassing on school property, schools have really cracked down on "strangers" in the building. I know that they are public schools, but they generally have the authority regulate who gets access to the building when students are present. Again, I don't think Patrick Mares was intending to be part of the "evil empire" that is the Obama administration.
The state, the state, the state….screw the state. What's next, the state taking parental rights away if these kids don't get the nutrition that the state demands that the parents provide for their kids? Government is getting too big for its britches in dictating its unholy will against the people and its about time that it gets slapped down royally. One has to wonder and worry what's in store for these parents and their kids where "rights" are concerned.
U know I'm for small government. Wat is it going to take for ppl to stand up and take their country back. Slowly but Shirley we r loosing our freedom do ppl not see this. They start w little things that don't seem to matter but then wham they hit us w something big that really costs us like wat we can say or not say. WAKE UP AMERICA! !!!!!!! This is serious.
Don't call me Shirly!
………Shirley, I mean. (grins winningly)
All started with the smoking it should have been stoped then opened a pandoras box play hell cloing it, anyone thinking that the goverment cares if you live or die is working with a short load.
Another All-American Asshole chipping away at the Corner of Democracy.
David Yatalese "Tommy, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"
Gaylene Barton – People can start taking our country back by pulling their kids out of these communist indoctrination centers. When the people do that in a mass exodus, that will finally get the attention of these idiots that we are no longer going to accept their BS.
We can start by taking our schools back from the grip of these socialist. We have to shut down the Department of Indoctrination (Education). That would be a great start.
What will it take for people to wake up? I think we are past that point. People will leave their kids in these institutions and continue to complain about them. They believe that it don't happen in their schools. It does. It is going on in every single one of them, because they are controlled by the DOE. You are right though, America needs to pull their heads out of their rears and wake up!!
Joel—Well said.
I have not lived in N.J. since 1969 but I did graduate from Parsippany H.S. in 1965 It was a different town and state then.
I have an idea. Set it up across the street. Or just say screw it and do it anyway. Force the bureaucrats in charge to call the police if they care so much. The only way that these rules and regulations matter is if we follow them. Call their bluff. Force them to make a scene. If these people care about students they will ignore the unjust rules and continue to raise money for their students.
Just have the sale at another time…we have the same law in Rhode Island and our PTA's adjusted to it by holding the sales of ice cream, baked goods etc. at other times and on school property. Some of the PTA's (with permission of the Principal) sell popcorn, ice cream at the close of the school day when parents are on sight for pick up. It accomplishes the goal of raising funds and it gives the kids a treat. I do agree the law is silly, since the food the kids are offered as "healthy" meals is nothing but junk!
NO ICE CREAM FOR YOU because the nanny state says so. WOW, how did were ever get here?
NO ICE CREAM FOR YOU because the nanny state says so. WOW, how did were ever get here?
You had ice cream on demand when you were in school?
Patrick Mares When I was in school ice cream was available every day at lunch for 10 cents. I'd get an ice cream 2-3 days a week. Some kids ate them everyday, and you know what, there were only a handful of chunky kids that I remember all through grammar school, and actually less in high school. This is clearly government over-reach and has to stop.
Patrick – as a matter of fact, yes, we did "have ice cream on demand." We could buy ice cream in school every single day if we wanted. right here in NJ. You could buy SEVERAL in fact.
How did we get here? Because not enough people thought it would ever happen to them. One day we will try to get on this site and it will be, first, monitored, second, restricted, and then, unavailable. Unbelievable? The plans are already in the works for the President to be able to seize control of the Internet in the event of a "national emergency".
Patrick Mares Yes, yes we did. We also had hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza slices etc. Believe or not, back then MOST kids ate a school lunch. Before the fed hired the Soup Nazi, that is.
Patrick Mares The issues is government intrusion, interference, and control. The ice cream is merely the trojan horse used.
Yes we had ice cream on demand at my school in vending machines. Does that shock you, Patrick? Imagine a free people making free decisions, REVOLUTIONARY. We also had playtime during recess & PE. The PC crowd took that away & now they tell our kids they can't have a soda or ice cream. Liberals are always looking for an excuse to tell us what to do. They especially like to go after our children in the schools like the Demo teacher who bullied the girl with a Romney teeshirt.
I ate icecream for lunch every other day in high school… because I was an American that lived in America. I had this thing called freedom of choice. Was it good for me, probably not but let the kid/parents decide what is right.
This is a case of taking the easy way out. I am certain that with a little thinking, that a solution could be found acceptable to the majority [[there will always be those against whatever]] —- Call me if you want a neutral referee ///////////.
As the Soup Nazi would say…"No ice cream for YOU!"
Another wonderful day in America. How do we get back to reality? unbelievable.
more asshole dems
Thank Moooooooooooooooooooooochele!
The ban violates the PTA member's rights.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
All laws and rules are out the window with the "communist in chief" Richard, but I get your point.
The rights of the PTA have been greatly diminished and are on the verge of being eliminated. Sound crazy? Think back just 30 yrs ago.
The rights of the PTA have been greatly diminished and are on the verge of being eliminated. Sound crazy? Think back just 30 yrs ago.
My friend and I run our local Elementary Schools Bake Sale. Last week the Regional Manager for food services showed up personally to shut us down. Meanwhile, my son was given dry cereal without milk for lunch because "food services" ran out of food. With this money the PTA pays for our librarian, PE Teacher, and our music teacher. These regulations aren't about keeping our kids healthy. Food services looses money if kids don't buy their lunches. This was all started by the Michelle Obama healthy food act. Thanks a million!
You should create a 'Take your luch to school Drive"..that would be interesting!!
LOSES LOOSES…SEE THE DIFFERENCE??
LOSES LOOSES…SEE THE DIFFERENCE??
Yep, thank the first nigger lady.
Hey Mindy, when we vote him out, Michelle will also leave.
Mindy, your PTA "pays" for the school librarian, PE teacher and music teacher? Do you mean salary? Just wondering..or do you mean you raise funds to help pay for extras the teachers need for the classroom?
Mindy, your PTA "pays" for the school librarian, PE teacher and music teacher? Do you mean salary? Just wondering..or do you mean you raise funds to help pay for extras the teachers need for the classroom?
Im sure if they wanted to sell gay pride tee shirts or Obama campaign buttons during their "school nutritional program" it would be just fine!
Great idea! Selll the ice cream in cups with "Vote for Obama" on them!
Or…"Dont Vote For Obama" on them XD!
My kids' school stopped doing this last year for the same reason. My daughter was devastated! If I want to send money for them to have ice cream, then obviously I am ok with them having ice cream! That was when my then 7 year old knew that Obama was a bad president! Haahahaha!
Yeah. You cant cut in on those government/union lunches.
It's time to tell big brother to stick it, they going to throw everyone in jail I don't think so no one to work and pay for their fancy vacations or their million dollars conferences.
People, you all did it to yourselves. You are like frogs in a pot…. the state has taken away a little at a time until it is now too late. You voted for the people who did this and for all those that greased the skids before them. Welcome to your 1984. All you do is talk, but no one does anything. What are they going to do if the PTA continues to sell ice cream. Call in the state police, arrest the PTA…if that happens more parents step into the breach, and continue until they have to arrest every parent out there or finally you win back a little of your freedom.
People, you all did it to yourselves. You are like frogs in a pot…. the state has taken away a little at a time until it is now too late. You voted for the people who did this and for all those that greased the skids before them. Welcome to your 1984. All you do is talk, but no one does anything. What are they going to do if the PTA continues to sell ice cream. Call in the state police, arrest the PTA…if that happens more parents step into the breach, and continue until they have to arrest every parent out there or finally you win back a little of your freedom.
You are exactly right! The old story… I didn't get involved with ______ because it wasn't about me. And I didn't get involved with ______ because it wasn't about me. Then one day, it WAS about me and there was no one left for me to get involved with.
AMEN Bryce..
John Wisnieski – You are absolutely right.
Bryce—Agree with ya. People will generally do or not according to what will effect them personally. It's the reasoning behind "do what ya want, just don't touch mines."
Nikita Khrushchev
"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism,
but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism,
until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."
Keep electing Democrats –Socialist,progressives -liberals what ever you want to call them me—I call them closet Marxists
I've been saying that we are "Frogs in a pot" for years. Stand up for your rights as parents, I did. Here is just one of the many examples…..The school nurse told my daughter that it was her decision as a "licensed professional" to determine wether or not my daughter was sick and refused to call me. Well……we took the decision out of their hands. The next time my daughter fell ill at school, she called me, I picked her up and then called the school and said she wouldn't be back for the day. Haha, they flipped out!
When my father died, they refused to call her out of class, I flipped out!! I barged into the principals office (while he was in a meeting) and guess what….they called her out of class! After dealing with the "professionals" in our schools for 16 years, they were glad to see my children graduate and Go!!
P.S. I packed them a sack lunch! P.S.S. Remember… You are in charge of your children, not them! Get involved, make your voice known and VOTE!
Oh crap…I feel like I am not alone….I have been flamed so many times, on so many sites, for my position. Folks, we have to stand up to this BS that's coming down on us…thank you all so much!
I swear on a room full of Bibles that if I win the Powerball, I will buy each member of the PTA their own ice cream truck (maybe their own ice cream store if the amount is big enough)! And pay for the permits to sell it just off school property. Is this insanity ever going to end?
Thank you John! As long as there is a strange desire by liberals to run our lives the "insanity" will never end…
This is nanny-statism at its worst! And as far as the change to the school lunch program, can you imagine what the outcry would be if a Republican president and Agriculture Secretary advocated a change to the school lunch program which reduced portion sizes AND raised the price AND said it was in the name of reducing obesity? Its amazing what liberals get away with!
While a ban on ice cream certainly is ridiculous, school lunch prices are largely dictated by state law in Pennsylvania and have nothing to do with liberalism.
Randy, this is no longer true (not sure if it ever was), but due to the new regulations, lunch prices will have to go up. There was an article about it in our paper in PA. The Feds only reimburse so much, but the states still have to adhere to the guidelines. The new guidelines call for more fresh fruit/veggies, which is more expensive. The district I live in was on the record in our local paper saying that prices are status quo right now due to deals they cut with local farmers (getting some of their excess), but once the season is over they are anticipating an increase directly related to the new guidelines. The Feds often enact things and then force the states to pay for them. I also regularly volunteer in our lunch room and the amount of food being wasted is incredible.
why don't we have say, an ice cream sale one time a month or week…and take the money to help pay for the better fruits and veggies??? The canned stuff sux. It does take finesse to make veggies palatable, especially to kids.
why don't we have say, an ice cream sale one time a month or week…and take the money to help pay for the better fruits and veggies??? The canned stuff sux. It does take finesse to make veggies palatable, especially to kids.
Yeah, it's a good thing Republicans don't want engage on any "nanny stating" in public schools … unless it wants to alter the curriculum to not teach evolution or human reproduction and force kids to pray. They can always opt out and feed their sprogs cheetos at home. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-27-2012/starved-by-the-bell—kids-protest-school-lunch-calorie-limits
Why are the Feds involved in the school lunch program, actually why are if the Federal Govt involved in education period. Think of the money available to the local and state schools if the Dept of Education were eliminated.
Randy Burch Sorry Randy. Ya have to be able to see the forest for the trees.
Give the ice cream away and sell the spoon to eat it!
Ohhhh a smart azz….. I like that ideal. But then again they would rule that spoons are bad for you health too.
Would have to learn to eat with chop sticks. Might not be a bad idea, Chinese are buying every thing in sight and not like we owe them billions, and if interest goes up we might have trouble paying them back. Will probably end up doing their laundry for them.
Way to go best idea i have heard PUSH BACK Americans . Stand up Now before it is too late
Our kids have access to junk food 24 hrs a day in our home, we eat it sometimes we also eat healthy. We don't make a big deal of it. My wife and I are reasonably active and our kids are skinny as rails. I think it is the active example you set not the food.
Wow! I went to ParHills HS! Good for them for protesting this Nanny state BS…
Those state laws are based on a federal mandate. They are breaking a law from the Fed, however ridiculous. This is DC's answer to every problem: legislate. If most people realized how controlling the fed is over every public school in the nation, there would be a national outcry. We need to end the DOE and all of this nonsense as well.
…and who warned us about this years ago, and included in his campaign to put an end to it? Go on, you can say it.
The law forbids any food sale fundraising efforts during the “hours when our school nutritional program is in operation.”
This law was most likely lobbied by ARAMARK who operates a very profitable snack bar during lunchtime hours. School lunches contracted out to large corporate entities are atrocious. I bet I could buy an ARAMARK school lunch, set it in my backyard and even the wild animals would refuse to eat it.
Full of GMOs and Idunnos.
True story, I don't know why, but I cannot eat most of the food they prepare. It causes my acid reflux to go full bore. Something they add, simply doesnt digest for me. I love our cafeteria people, but there is def something to your point about addititves.
True story, I don't know why, but I cannot eat most of the food they prepare. It causes my acid reflux to go full bore. Something they add, simply doesnt digest for me. I love our cafeteria people, but there is def something to your point about addititves.
As I am sitting in prison or filling out my employment application I can you imagine saying, "I got busted for selling ice cream."
Ann Miller you are so right! In Rhode Island Sodexho has the food contract for all of the public schools and they have within the contract a "no competition" clause which does not allow the school to offer anything but their products while the "nutritional program" is in operation. The state doubled down on the law by prohibiting any parties in the classroom that includes "unhealthy" snacks. But…the kids can bring whatever they choose in their own lunch boxes to have during lunchtime! Annnnnnnd…the "healthy" snack initiative is subjective because our teachers have been very creative with these "healthy" snacks while having a special party in the classroom..:)
It's just about the federal program getting the cash and not the PTA. School lunch is a for profit business.
This is crazy, especially when you consider that all schools use "Miss Chocolate" as a fund raiser.
Our school district inspects lunch bags and takes items away that have been banned. Next the "Gubermint" will determine which kids need meds and parents won't have a choice… Whoops already done!
Are saying that your school district actually checks every students lunch bag from home and removes items it doesn't like??? What school district is that???
THAT CAN'T BE TRUE?
And you are leaving your kids in those schools? Who is the crazy one here?
this is just getting to be effin insane.
Morons! Even apart from the nanny state thing, ice cream may have sugar but it also has milk. One of the more nutritious snack foods really. And fewer Weight Watchers points than something like cake (which I'm sure the school aslo bans.) Not that the nutrition matters since the MAIN thing is the nanny state business.
I just hope we get these fruit cakes OUT of office come November, get rid of "big brother" and go back to parents raising their children..
There is way more than just a few of them,vote very carefully!
Mindy and I have a major loop hole
Pipehole
Folks, next thing? Cookie sales will be off limits. The State Superintendent of Schools should focus on the education aspects and not the content of ice cream, provided by the PTA.
Welcome to the "Nanny State."
And so it goes. Something small. Just chipping away. What was once a mighty tree, will one day be a rotted stump. All it takes is to chip away at it slowly, a little at time, so no one notices. Chip, chip. No harm here. Not bothering anyone. Chip, chip. Nothing to see. Chip. Stop making such a big deal out of such little things…chip, chip…
Down with Michelle Obama. She should have made the OUT OF CONTROL VIOLENCE that plagues this country her main target. Instead, she picks something DING BATTISH and INTRUSIVE as people's weight.
This idea about selling products off school ground don't make any sense, the kids can't leave school property during school hours unless they are with their parents.
They only thing that will help this situation and every other idiotic situation that keeps coming up concerning these schools is to pull your kids out of them in mass exodus. That is not breaking the law and that is the only thing that makes sense.
When you pull your kids out of those schools, these indoctrination centers lose money. If everyone that is tired of this garbage that is going on in their communities pulled their kids out, they would be able to afford a private education. Tuition is dependent upon a student body. If there were an influx of kids in a private school near you, tuition goes down.
If you say that you still can't afford a private school, then home school them. There are plenty of home school curriculum's out there that offer sound, educational principles that are DVD driven. Many churches offer home school co-ops where parents that know different subjects, such as math and science and home-EC teach as well. There are other venues available, but you need to decide what is best.
Only you can affect change. If you want what is best for your kids and for your nation, pull your kids out and sacrifice for them, and get them educated not indoctrinate.
Quit complaining and start acting. Take charge of your kids' and your nation's future and save them from this garbage.
I have long said that the schools only pay lip service to caring about the family unit. They truly want a breakdown of the family and maintain more control over the children. I would also bet that soon the Food Service Personnel will be selling Ice Cream as a treat. They just saw an opportunity to make some money. Parents need to start standing up to these ridiculous school boards and completely over the top state laws. How do these things even get passed? Boycott school lunches and hit them where it hurts, it doesn't take that much effort to pack a cold lunch. At some point, in many areas, parents are going to have to boycott schools themselves. Have the students "go on strike" until things are brought to a less ridiculous level. Teachers need to focus more on education the children and less on influencing(bullying) them with their own political ideals and personal values. We as parents didn't have children to provide them with a job, they were given a job to educate our children.
It is called 'lip service' Government is all for… fully supports free, private enterprise… as long as it is not in competition with the government. As government's continued reach into all aspects of private life, these governments will have to shut down more and more 'competition' in order to maintain their control.
It is called 'lip service' Government is all for… fully supports free, private enterprise… as long as it is not in competition with the government. As government's continued reach into all aspects of private life, these governments will have to shut down more and more 'competition' in order to maintain their control.
I'd like to know how many parents were disturbed? NJ, if you're lucky, you'll soon have the government taking over the rearing of your children! Nightmare!
I've seen those school lunches, they look custom made for the little people from Oliver Twist. If you'd have tried to serve that to me when I was 15 I would have laughed in your face. My suggestion is to make a little more at dinner and pack your kids sustaining lunches from the leftovers – it seems to really school systems and the gov when you don't participate.
This is the problem when government runs anything. They lack common sense. Each school has to make some decisions on what works best for them. But instead they have to follow every government program to the t. And it seems to do abosolutely no good in the end. Eating healthy is great. But someone doesn't change all their bad habits overnight. The schools should have been allowed to ease into changes and make some of the choices for themselves. A little bit of icecream every once in awhile isn't going to hurt these kids.
Attention Disgruntled Parents: Having heard the complaints about the state law not allowing the PTA to sell ice cream to raise money for cultural arts programs and field trips, we, the State, would like to take this opportunity to explain why this is in your best interest. As you know, the children's obesity rate is skyrocketing and something needs to be done. Hence, the state regulations dictating what you shall eat and when you shall eat it. This state law has been implemented because evidently you can't control your child's caloric intake so we, the state, must do it for you. In case you are worried about who wrote these laws and what their qualifications are you need not worry. If you were qualified to do what we do, you would be writing the laws( makes sense, right?). We have also noticed contraband coming into the school during the morning hours ( Twinkies, cup cakes and the occasional snickers bar). Please be advised that on November 1st, 2012 school administrators designated by the state (these administrators have passed a rigorous background check and are fully loyal to the state) will be making random lunchbox checks to intercept said contraband. We appreciate your cooperation in this matter.
The students should be eating cauliflower and broccoli ONLY!
So says the government.
What about giraffes? I want to give away all my rights too! I want to be banned from eating the foods that the government deems unacceptable too. Why haven't they taken my rights away yet? Doesn't the government like giraffes? Why can't I give up my common liberties like so many people have? Why won't the government manage my life and make choices for me like they do for so many people? I feel so left out.
One day we shall all have had our fill of this crap. The sooner, the better.