Conditioning of the masses. So many kids are on the free lunch program already it probably didn't affect too many...and those, apparently, didn't raise a stink big enough to make a difference. The self-responsible are sooooo outnumbered by moochers. Too bad this article didn't cover all the garbage bags full of thrown out food that go in the dumpster everyday. Shine some light on THAT tax payer funded colossal waste. I send end the free lunch program all together....no...end public schools all together...

From my research, this is about Head Start programs only and it's a policy that has been in place for a while. It's in place for a variety of reasons, but they mainly boil down to the fact that most of the people who put their kids in Head Start programs are already dependent on the government. Children in standard public schools are still allowed to bring bag lunches (for however long that lasts).

scared to think of how bad it'll be when we have kids and they're old enough for school.

Mama Michelle and her nanny state. She knows better than we do how to raise our children. Only three more years. Maybe.

As a product of public schools, let me tell you, their lunches are some garbage. I was fortunate that my parents gave me a ham sandwich every day (with not nearly enough mustard). I would never want my kids to eat school lunches. They smell bad. I never had any desire to eat them, but I did at some point. That one time I remember did not inspire me to want school lunch again...

Schools are controlling a bit too much and individual judgment is so off that the schools have to require uniforms. It's a real pain to have to either spend every weekend at the laundromat or have to buy 20 pairs of shirt/pants combinations for a growing child.

Anyway, my mom also worked in schools--the cheating on the standardized tests was notorious and is still going on. The special ed. kids were scoring higher than the regular ed. kids on the tests, and nobody seemed to think that was odd!

In my own experience, the teacher literally taught us the test for the math portion, and then pretended to be shocked when we later told him that what we were taught was IDENTICAL to the questions on the test. That was the only time during the entire course that he taught anything at all...I had two classes like that with teachers who did not teach anything. I was self-taught in World History.

All things considered, I probably can't afford a private school for my kids, but then again, I could probably teach them better myself on weekends, in the long run...

Definitely don't like the way schools are these days. It's a bee's nest, a lion's den, etc. for the kids who actually care about learning.

For someone who can't work out how to move his kids to another school, this looks like a frightening plot among world leaders to control the population. LOL

The reason for my sarcastic response is I moved my kids to a different school a month ago, and I'm sadly having an attorney prepare a law suit against people I really believed in. I wish it were a plot at the highest levels, but it's really my wife's and my mistake handing them $10k before the school year even started. We had used their play group, and thought we knew what we were doing.

The good thing is our kids are in a good school now. The people at the other school are good people who are unfortunately in a legal dispute with us. Things chanced fast in one month.

I agree that note is a "fail". They're probably worried about nut allergies, which are a real and deadly problem for some people, obviously not cause to ban all lunches.

For reasons like this, every time I interview a new school for my kids I'll ask questions like, What's your policy on these things:
-older kids or younger kids entering the building first
-kids mixing their lunch with your lunch
-kids having items with corporate logos
-kids eating food processed commercially not homemade
-kids having plastic toys made by large companies
-our sharing only slightly expurgated accounts of news stories to kids

The only acceptable answer is something like "Oh I never thought about it." If the answer involves corporations lobbying for corn subsidies or GMOs, I can't use that school even if I agree with them completely.

That's how we chose the current school: They looked at my like I was nuts when I asked which student should enter first. That's what I was looking for.

My kids are only 5 and 3; previously they've had a nanny. I'm starting to think changing schools in response to difficulties may be par for the course. I can kind of understand people feeling like schools are a plot.

I wonder how many (if any) parents complained?