Banning Sack Lunches:
Seriously?
By Eric Fink,
for dumbhoosier.com
I saw on www.infowars.com this week that a school in
Chicago has recently banned sack lunches (i.e. allowing students to
bring in their lunches):
http://www.infowars.com/chicago-school-bans-some-lunches-brought-from-home/and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZYPGD0hOb0&feature=channel_video_title.
I have two thoughts on this. First what right does any school have to
ban lunches from being brought in? It is also my understanding that
some schools are going as far as telling parents what they can/cannot
bring for the lunches. My second thought is to just give me another
reason to homeschool my kid.
Although I would love to later right an article on homeschooling, I am
going to stick to the first thought: what right does a school have to
ban lunches and/or tell students what they can or cannot bring for
lunch?
Granted the one case I could understand is if a student at school is so
allergic to peanuts that they could die from even the smell or dust
particles from it... as I have known a few people with such bad peanut
allergies. So I am not 100% against this, just about 99% against this.
However, in any case whose children are they that are going to school?
Are they the schools or are they the parent's children. If I want to
send my kid to school with a sack lunch. I worked some as a substitute
teacher last year, and I was always disgusted with it. There was one
day where I did in fact buy the school lunch. I felt sick the rest of
the day. In fact my oppinion is that I felt better after eating
McDonald's and I rarely eat there anymore.
This is all about having your children put in the "system" and to think
that the government/ the school is the child's parents. Some schools
are even going as far as thumb print scans in order to buy lunches.
What is the point of this? Is this not what happens when someone is
arrested for a crime? They get their thumb print prints. This is really
criminalizing children prior to even committing a crime.
In closing I would like to congradulate a student at the school I
mentioned who asked the following question: “Who thinks the lunch is
not good enough?” and dozens of hands flew up in their air. Followed by
students all saying, "We should bring our own lunch!" I am really proud
of Fernando Dominguez and his ability to stand up to this kind of crap
that is going on in our country.
Bio: Eric Fink is 28 married and has one daughter. He holds a B.S. in
Counseling and Sociology from Grace College and a Certificate in
Theology from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. He has spent time
in South Korea teaching English. Currently Eric is seeking employment.
Eric's hobbies include cooking (mostly Asian foods), reading and
computers.
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