School Official Forbids Preschooler’s Homemade Lunch and Gives Her Three Chicken Nuggets Instead

Another reason to home educate!

oh yeah cuz you know, processed, deep fried chicken parts are sooooooo much healthier then turkey, cheese, apple juice & bananas. The government seriously needs to butt out of so many areas of people's lives!!

How was a turkey sandwich and a banana worse than 3 chicken nuggets????
I'm sorry but since when is it ok for a school to tell children what to eat!
Instead of letting the girl eat a healthy lunch that would have filled her up they gave her THREE processed chicken nuggets?

if pizza is a vegetable then apple juice is a fruit and her lunch from home was fine. also I don't particularly care for a lunch monitor who I don't know and most likely has little to no education in nutrition to decide if my child's lunch is healthy enough.

What that kid had sounds a hell of a lot better than what the school gave her. If I were her parent, that school would have one huge fight on their hands.

This teacher seems to be confused about who is actually responsible for the child's health and development. It is the parents, not her, who are tasked with keeping the child healthy. It is their job to OFFER an education and OFFER a nutritious lunch, and it is the parents who are agreeing to delegate THEIR RESPONSIBILITY for both of these things to the school. Perhaps they need a reminder that schools are to serve the community, and not the other way around.

This is so stupid. They need to fine a good lawyer.

I'm not surprised. Poptarts & fruit roll-ups are considered a fruit and ketchup a vegetable according to schools in my state.... pathetic. It's time schools went back to REAL cooks making REAL food and the government butting out a bit.

Just lucky she didn't have a peanut allergy to the peanut oil that the nuggets were fried in. What a stupid program.

Welcome to the socialism of our country and education system. Government mandates and food monitors. I find it sick, pathetic and too much like Orwell's 1984 that it makes me nervous. Forget the indocturination of the education system as a whole, but now lunches? Whats next? Forced physical education and suspensioin if they don't?

....because the turkey and cheese is soooo awful. She had a banana and a healthy sandwich. This is stupid. Brown bag lunches are up to the parent, not the school.

chicken nuggets are so processed. The child would have had a lot more nourishment from the turkey sandwich. And what's wrong with a banana & apple juice as healthy? These D*MNED Government officials are lording-over our little kids now. I say time to beat them back.

#$%$ the brown bag lunch sounds healthier than the breaded chicken nuggets with who-knows-what filler in them that were probably at one time fried. I can understand concern from school staff (I've seen some kids in my daughter's daycare with m&m's, doughnuts, and muffins for breakfast) but this was way off.

Schools are no longer just a place for the three R's, they, through the Federal, State & local governments have been intruding more & more on things that "should be" up to the authority of the parent or guardian. In this case the school apologized (Big frigg'n deal), but the mother should continue to raise h*ll through the proper channels & not only refuse to pay the $1.25, but charge the school $5.oo for her wasted lunch. Insist on everything in writing otherwise the crooked #$%$ will hold her child back from some future event due to an unpaid lunch bill.

Where the hell in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution is the US Government granted permission to regulate what food choices we make?! It should make every American's skin crawl to hear of a "state agent" inspecting children's lunches!

I am so glad that the government, who consistantly contradicts themselves, has the fore-thought to hire a lunch monitor and give power to tell children that their parents don't know whats best for them. Don't worry that anything the government tries to control seems to blow up in our faces. Big Brother knows best.

Yay for lunch monitor not even KNOWING their own guidelines!!

"USDA guidelines for pre-K programs stipulate that lunch (whether brown bagged or provided by the cafeteria) must include one serving of meat, one serving of grain, and two servings of a fruit or a vegetable."

"A four year-old pre-kindergartner's homemade lunch consisting of a turkey (MEAT!) and cheese sandwich (Grain!), a banana (One fruit...), a bag of potato chips, and an apple juice (Two fruit!)"

I'm all for offering lunches at school that are healthier than the CRAP that passes for food right now, but they will never hold a CANDLE to a homemade lunch.

No way in hell government should be able to tell you what to pack for your child. Unless day after day they child brings nothing of decent value to school, and then it shouldn't be because of the food, that would be because of neglect.

USDA CAN TAKE THAT "APPROVED" LUNCH AND SHOVE IT UP THEIR #$%$ I'LL BE THE FIRST TO VOLUNTEER TO SHOVE IT UP THERE FOR THEM.

As a child I forgot my lunch once and had to eat the "Hot" lunch provided by the school, having never eaten a corn dog in my life, I cried when I got my lunch tray!