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 agent 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 only 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 concern about school officials telling her daughter that she wasn’t “packing her lunch box properly.”
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Cheeze and turkey???
This is a jewish site?
“Confiscates”?! Where in the story do you see anything about the lunch being confiscated? On the contrary, the story makes it clear that “inadequate” lunches are to be *supplemented*, not replaced. Presumably there was something healthy on the school-provided tray besides chicken nuggets, which the child chose not to eat; you can lead a horse to water… (And presumably the mother knew her “horse”, and what she would or wouldn’t eat, better than the teacher did.)
Good catch YWN…important news story, especially for all the Yidden who live in Hoke County, North Carolina.
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Gee…my great story for Yidden in Hoke County, NC comment didn’t make the cut; I’m shocked…flabbergasted!!
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What YWN left out was that after the mother complained, the school called her and apologized. The lunch actually DID meet the requirements (1 serving meat, 1 serving grain, 2 servings fruit and/or vegetable). There was no word on the other news sources if the school forgave the $1.25 for the lunch.
Its good to know that Mommy Govt knows more than the kid’s mom and that they were willing to make a scene out of it like they did. This like everything liberal is a complete intrusion of power. GET OUT OF OUR LIVES & LET US LIVE!!