Meanwhile, In Vermont . . .
. . . the state has banned brownies and other chocolate treats in schools.
The late author Robert A. Heinlein said it best: “Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”
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Pot brownies, OTOH, are still served in the Brattleboro schools.
Expect nothing less from the idiot flatlander transplants who keep foisting Bernie Sanders on the rest of America.
I guess those must be OK because of all that added “green, leafy plant material”. Must count as a “vegetable”. (smile)
If not for those brownies most of the state would be looking to drag Sanders to a high tree and find a rope…
Speaking of Vermont, communist Bernie Sanders, Vermont Senator, is contemplating a run at the Presidency.
At least he’s honest enough to admit it.
Admit what? That he’s a damned dyed-in-the-wool Socialist? Or that he’s an idiot?
Last time I checked, Sanders hasn’t publicly owned up to either of those. He keeps claiming he’s an “Independent” and is “taking care of the people”.
He’s doing something to the people, all right. But “taking care of” isn’t exactly the way one usually phrases “screwing over”.
Oh Hondo, come on now.
You know the kind and caring dude is just screening everyone for rectal polyps and, at least the male contingent, prostate issues!
I taught ROTC in Burlington when he was mayor there. He had no problem telling everyone that he was a communist in those days, you know, in among the flatlander NYC commies who moved there in those days.
71% of teenagers fail to meet the minimum recruiting standard for the Army. The main reason is being overweight. School districts cut Gym classes first to save $ to meet Bush era mandated standardized testing. Kids these days are just pounding fattycakes and not exercising. Something needs to be done, targeting one pastry item is a little foolish, but you have to start somewhere.
Um, try again, hon.
Bush didn’t cut school funding. My kids still do Physical Education. Even when I went to HS lo those many years ago, only one credit was required for graduation.
But most kids get fat, etc., because even if they do get PE in school, most of them plop their fat asses in front of the idiot box or their cell phones rather than go out and play. Working during he summer? Surely you jest!
Ever seen a kid chopping wood, mowing lawns, shoveling snow, etc? Not nearly enough.
So nice try blaming Bush, but once again, you are a no-go at thus station.
And to add…there are a plethora of reasons over 2/3 of kids don’t qualify…being a bunch of fatbodies is but one reason. Throw in failure to pass the ASVAB, drug use, civil involvement, failure to graduate or even get a GED, medical conditions, and it adds up.
Yeah, the fact that the US high school graduation rate is south of 75% might have something to do with that. That accounts for around 1/3 of those not qualified right off the bat (25/71 ~= 35%).
And even having a GED or adult diploma now puts you at a disadvantage, because in most cases the minimum ASVAB QT is now 50, and the bar is raised on other issues that might not have been a problem with a traditional HS diploma.
Don’t leave out the reality that many HS these days spend way more time on ideological indoc than they do on actual education.
All too often an HS diploma only means that the student showed up enough school days each year to qualify.
Isn’t the “Blame Bush” meme a little over played? And since when was it a school’s responsibility to parent these children? Health in general and good eating habits in specific are the parent’s job, not the school’s.
No! No! No! good sir.
It is the government’s job to manage every aspect of every person’s life.
So, the lesson is to turn schools back over to the local districts, disband the Education Department and cut the administrative staffs of school districts. Get the Federal money out of education and let the districts serve their communities rather than waste time scrambling for Federal dollars.
Yep. Doesn’t much matter what the topic might be, there is no one size fits all.
Local folks know the needs of their community better, or can discover them much more quickly, than can some distant bureaucrat. The more levels of bureaucracy between the community and the funds, the more expensive and less effective the “solution” becomes.
Good example is the no nuts policy for all schools and all students. Sure, some kids may be allergic to peanuts, but for many others, nuts are an excellent source of nutrition.
So, are you saying that Bush mandated Common Core that Obama championed and implemented? That is more standardized than even the old “standardized” tests.
You are blaming George W. Bush for fat children?? Seriously??? SERIOUSLY????
SIX YEARS after Obama was elected you are trying to say Bush is responsible? Goddamn, he must have been the most powerful President in history – every minor thing he did must be permanently etched in stone. Got some bad news for you… if everything he did was so horrible why has the current admnistration not done anything about it? You remind me of a friend who just wrote me that he was concerned over inflation and medical costs “if the current conservatives stay in power” – apparently he doesn’t have a clue what the Senate or the White House are, or that the Dems control the Executive Branch, half of the Legislative branch, and effectively half of the Judicial branch. Bush to blame – seriously?
Brownies? What’s next, those nutritious lunches of pizza slices, tacos, cheeseburgers and hot dogs? Or the, just go to the vending machines for lunch? When I was in school we went through the lunch line and had a meat, a vegetable or two and something that resembled desert plus milk. Not always tasty but well rounded and filling. If you had morning PT you ate anything you were so hungry. My favorite was Brunswick Stew. Everything but the kitchen sink in that stuff. We weren’t the worse for it and we all seemed to graduate fit as a fiddle and ready for service, like me, or life in general. The “fat kid” was the exception to the rule then and now they are the expected.
Lets also not forget that the current totalitarian douchebags that are playing this game, were the leftardic idiots that worked so hard to cause the rot and dysfunction, the wholesale lowering of standards, the “let the kids eat what makes them happy” and all the rest, that they now claim to be such badness that they must step in, again, and impose their will, again.
Grimmy…You nailed it.
The interesting thing about this is the corresponding drop in school lunch participation.
Vermont has discovered that being forced to eat kale has driven some kids from the school lunch program entirely. Who knew if you took away choices you would end up with less people involved in the program….amazing how the mind of a life long bureaucrat works. They don’t even realize how far off the track they’ve drifted.
Here in the PRoM we’ve actually struck down those regulations….
Hill said that when legislators debated and ultimately passed a bill in July 2010 directing public health officials to crack down on junk food in schools, they never dreamed the officials would declare war on beloved bake sales.
Terri L. Murphy – treasurer for the Ipswich Music, Art & Drama Association, a booster club for arts in local schools – said she e-mailed Hill when she heard about the ban earlier this week.
“It was like, ‘Oh, no, we’re going to lose about $6,000 a year,’ ’’ she said.
Murphy said the association runs concession stands at middle and high school plays and other events. During a drama festival that is held in Ipswich each year, she said, the group offers healthy foods that customers rarely purchase.
“Do we put out apples and oranges and yogurt? Yes,’’ she said. “Do they sell? No.’’
Yep, the high school that I worked at put out all of those goodies at lunch time, and the kids walked right past them to get chicken fries, hamburgs and a Coke. At least we always had apples and oranges in the office.
They haven’t bought in to the lunch dicta from Moochelle. At least, not yet. I’m sure there’s a parent somewhere in the district on the phone to Stabenow or Red Karl Levin, trying to get the food police on campus.
When I was in school, we got lunch every day that had two veggies, some meat like chicken, ham, or beef fixed in various ways like meatloaf, plus a cookie or something for dessert, plus milk, plus rolls and butter. On Fridays, there was always some fish dish, like salmon loaf or some kind of tuna casserole.
You ate lunch, then you went outside and ran it off for 45 minutes, then you went to class. No one was fat except the token fat kid who brought his own lunch because his parents wouldn’t pay for the school lunch. I hate to be nostalgic for the good old days, but frankly, it seems like common sense prevailed and edcuation was more thorough. We did fractions in 2nd grade. These kids give you blank looks if you mention fractions.
Yeah, those “good old days” were pretty good. Made it through a couple of years of HS consuming a grilled cheese sandwich, a huge load of French fries and a carton of milk almost every day for lunch – cost 37 cents. The regular meal was a bit more, and I was given enough each Monday morning to pay for the plate lunches.
Seems like the folks gave me enough extra to cover the lunches plus one treat a week. McDonald’s was a good option what with fries only a dime, until they sent up to 15 cents. A good friend’s family owned an ice cream joint, so managed to eat a few free milk shakes and sundaes with her.
All just to say that where there is a will there is a way. We ate well, played hard, and almost no one was overweight. Of course, there were no vending machines in schools then either. The only options were to pack your own or eat what the cafeteria served.
Remember, they are trying to make school lunches no more then 700 calories. You know, because teenagers aren’t growing and high school athletes don’t need more calories due to physical training.
Thank god everything is squared away in Vermont that they were able to tackle that brownie problem. Priorities.
Yup no need to worry about heating oil, wood pellets and propane. We can burn our issued little red books of Mao. Its gonna be long cold winter again. Thanks for the concern berni.
Welcome to Little Russia.
Heh.
I’m gonna offer myself up as a sacrificial whatchumacallit with this comment…
Get rid of the whole “school lunch” and at least in my AO, “school breakfast” and “after school snacks”.
Let kids bring their own sack lunches with whatever their own parents prefer to have in them.
That’d put a stop to the whole shebang. It worked for a century or so, would work again. Also it’d cut down on the expense of running a school.
But bestest part, it’d cut off one of the current avenues of attack of the intellectually inbred sacks of shit playing at their bullshit leftardic games.
Speaking of sack lunches, one kid had hers seized and was forced to buy a school gunk, I mean lunch. Maybe they were made by contractors that bribed the right politicians and administrators? As I see it, anytime you want runaway idiocy, hypocrisy, incompetence, and nincompoopery by the barge-load, JUST ADD GOVERNMENT!!
Here’s a sample of what I’m referring to:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14/preschoolers-homemade-lunch-replaced-with-nuggets/
And if these idiots, I mean Administrators were SOO concerned about children being fed, then WHY did this gaggle of idiots eize kids’ lunches and throw them away right after they were served?
http://gawker.com/elementary-school-in-utah-seizes-lunches-from-40-studen-1512340825
Since when did a boon for poor children become an enumerated right? Next year I will celebrate my Fifty year High School graduation anniversary. I can’t remember ever eating a school lunch. With four kids in school my folks could not afford to pay for something we could make at home. We carried lunch boxes in elementary school and brown bags there after. Each of us made four lunches on a rotation. When it was time to go you went to the fridge and picked a bag, Put some bulk chips in another sandwich bag, inserted same, and went to school. All of the bags had the same contents. We ate egg salad, tunafish, PB&J, turkey, bologna, even beef tongue. A piece of seasonal fruit, and a veggie bag. We bought milk or soda at school. Even playing football we never starved. We had no money to stop at the Tasty Freeze after school for fries or a burger, so we ate like condemned men at supper time. We worked on weekends and during the summers for our spending money so we had little time to get in trouble. We all played three varsity sports because as a small student body if you wanted to turn out for football you had to do three sports. We were not poor by the standards of our time and place, but we never had a new car while the kids were at home.
I have no sympathy for people who receive subsidised lunches bitching that they don’t taste good. Don’t like the lunch, bring your own or go hungry. Watts’ first law of economics states: If you take their money, you must take their crap.
Kids should have gym throughout school. I think when I attended it ended after sophomore year.
As far as lunch/diet, there is entirely too much crap served in school lunches.
Im not a socialist but the people of America are getting shit food practicaaly forced down their throats.
The liberal leftard way of doing things – “If it ain’t broke, keep ‘fixing it until it’s FUBAR!”
MOOchelle the First Sasquatch sure has made herself popular with that crap. She tries to tell everyone else and their kids to eat and I’ve heard she eats like a pissed-off starving hyena when she’s chowing down on barbecue!
I think it’s safe to say that MOOchelle 0bama is as nasty and hypocritical as Rosie O’Dounut!!
What does popping a girls bra strap get you nowadays, 20 to life? Do they serve brownies in jail? Hmmmm….
My son made a bundle in high school a few years ago running a black market candy store out of his booksack. Even the teachers were buying from him. He cleared several hundred dollars a year.
Its not that they are banned totally…they just arent selling them in the cafeterias. Apparently, instead of being able to buy mystery meat stew and shit on a shingle now kids are faced with the options of buying actually nutritious grub. Want sugar? Bring it in yourself…
But honestly…to quote the article…”Now, the question is, which kids out there have actually claimed to like kale?” I will take a fat pill over kale almost any day. And I spent years as a vegetarian.