Tim drops ball, misses Biggest school lunch story of the year

[Darth Wagtaros]

http://fox8.com/2012/02/15/school-deems-childs-lunch-unhealthy-replaced-with-chicken-nuggets/

WGHP) — A Hoke County preschooler was fed chicken nuggets for lunch because a state worker felt that her homemade lunch did not have enough nutritional value, according to a report by the Carolina Journal. The West Hoke Elementary School student was in her More at Four classroom when a state employee who was inspecting lunch boxes decided that her packed lunch — which consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips — "did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines," the Journal reports.
The decision was made under consideration of a regulation put in place by the the Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services, which requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs to meet USDA guidelines.
"When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones," the Journal reports.
The student's mother told the Journal she received a note from the school about the incident and was charged $1.25 for the cafeteria tray, from which her daughter ate three chicken nuggets.
The note explained how students who did not bring "healthy lunches" would be offered the missing portions and that parents could be charged for the cost of the cafeteria food, the Journal reports.
The mother, who was not identified in the report, expressed concerns about school officials telling her daughter that she wasn't "packing her lunch box properly."

[Caliga]

Princesca was telling me about this while we were driving to dinner earlier.

[Neil]

Aren't chicken nuggets worse than anything?

[Ed Anger]

Private schooling looks better and better.

[jimmy olsen]

WTF!? That packed lunch sounds way better than anything an American school would provide.

[Caliga]

a state employee who was inspecting lunch boxes

This is the piece that I found most disturbing.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Well you post every pit of trivia that makes its way to the net, so I imagined you had skipped this as it would put the spotlight on your liberal agenda.

[crazy canuck]

For the Land of the Free you guys have some pretty screwed up government intervention.

[Caliga]

For the Land of the Free you guys have some pretty screwed up government intervention.

This is either an Ohio thing, or a new thing.  When I was in school, no 'state employees' went around inspecting lunches.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Babyboomers.  If the story is true.  I see a lot of articles and it was all over talk radio, but I haven't seen any confirmation beyond the original Journal story.

[Ed Anger]

For the Land of the Free you guys have some pretty screwed up government intervention.

This is either an Ohio thing, or a new thing.  When I was in school, no 'state employees' went around inspecting lunches.

What the fuck. It's north carolina.

[Caliga]

I saw 'Cleveland' at the top and assumed it was a story from Cleveland..

[Ed Anger]

I saw 'Cleveland' at the top and assumed it was a story from Cleveland..

We are not amused.

[11B4V]

Aren't chicken nuggets worse than anything?

They are pretty gross.

[CountDeMoney]

Aren't chicken nuggets worse than anything?

They are pretty gross.

Don't even try the new McBites;  they're even worse.