The Chicago Tribune demonstrates the lengths to which liberals will go to overshadow the role of parents, blatantly infringing on their responsibilities to their own children’s basic needs. Government has constituently enumerated powers. Nannyism is not one of them.
Michelle Obama wants to tell us what and how to eat, although few of us can afford to emulate the Obama’s exclusive dietary tastes.
But at Chicago’s Little Village Academy, most students must take the school provided meals — both breakfast and lunch — or go hungry. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria. Bringing lunch from home is now verboten.
The Trib reports that dozens of students took the provided lunch but threw most of it in the garbage uneaten. No matter. Although the children might not get their nutrition, the puveyor’s bank accounts get very fat.
Any school that bans homemade lunches also guarantees more money in the pockets of the district’s food provider, Chartwells-Thompson. The federal government pays the district for each free or reduced-price lunch provided, and the supplying commissary receives a set fee from the district per meal.
Back in 2005, the catering contract was worth $100 million in managed annual volume, servicing 613 schools and 426,812 students in the Chicago area, alone. Annual revenue at that time was projected to exceed $52 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Chartwells-Thompson, a division of Charlotte, N.C.-based, high-dollar stock trading Compass Group, provided the food service for all six regions comprising the Chicago Public Schools System. We attempted to find more recent corporate financial remuneration information from the catering company, but it appears to be well concealed. However we were able to locate this 2010 report on “Diversity and Inclusion” including their abhorrence of gender discrimination (pages 7 and 8).
The Chicago School District is the third largest in the United States, leading us to question whether this is about nutrition or mammoth sums of money.
Read the Chicago Tribune article here.
Big bucks always take precedence over the most vulnerable. The kids were probably bringing more healthful meals from home than the beans and rice and mac and fake cheese they get from the purveyors. But that’s not where the “interests” lie. To have this mandated is obscene!
Surely you didn’t expect anything more? It’s Obama’s Chicago, after all!
The most spectacular home I have ever been in is in Paradise Valley. I attended a political fundraiser there. The home was owned by a man who provided food commercially to schools nationwide. There is indeed money in that business. I live in Paradise Valley and have seen my share of fine homes, but this one was a showstopper.
the wheels are turning in Rich Crandall’s head tonight…..
Too funny, Paul! I think you might be onto something! “By jove, I think you’ve got it!” as ‘Enry Higgins said.
We expected this news from Chicago–and more–with people like Rahm Emanuel in high places.
Arizona is fortunate to have a few American-loving representatives in state government. But alas, I hear a recall is underway against Russell Pearce. They claim to have 2/3 the required signatures; odd I first read about it today. I propose a real tea party, if this idea lands Arizona.
Russell Pearce is our state treasure and a true American patriot, Jane. If he needs us in any way, he should not have to ask twice.
I agree Night Owl. First, its annoying that so many Arizonans are conservative but we have a 100% liberal news media in the state which is giving this PAC free publicity. Second, I’ll be surprised if, after those signatures are scrubbed, 10% are legitimate voters. Before, Pearce even asks, I think we should collectively write 10,000 letters to the AZSOS demanding an investigation into anyone fraudulently signing and collecting signatures. This LaRaza business has gotten way out of hand. I’ve heard Russell Pearce give presentations, he’s sharp and has got one of the quickest minds in government. I don’t mind saying again, I am sick of communist open-borders activists using public money to bull-doze their agenda here. While we’re busy making a living, they’re passing out t-shirts and pizza to paid thugs who are too ignorant to know what civil war means, but that’s exactly what they’re instigating.
Jane, Night Owl and others:
Russell Pearce sticks in the craw of the open border thugs because he is a principled man of integrity AND was elected by his senate peers as their president. Those who hate America (let’s face the facts, they’re who support and participate in the demonstrations and this recall) want to embarrass him and take him down. We cannot allow them to be successful. Patriots from around Maricopa County need to take to the streets in District 18, (the east valley district he represents) and tell the truth to the voters. This needs to be a concerted effort, not random, motivated Pearce supporters, but a massive group, in unison with fact sheets that can be left with citizen voters. Walking lists of Republicans and registered Independents need to be used. We need to flood the area with committed Pearce supporters.
Go to his website:
http://www.russellpearce.com/ Read his impressive bio and his position on the issues of critical importance. Arm yourself with facts.
Call Sen. Pearce’s office and ask where you can go to help this good man:
http://www.azleg.gov/MembersPage.asp?Member_ID=18&Legislature=50&Session_ID=102
We need to mobilize. Regardless of where we live, Sen. Pearce deserves our commitment and assistance. Let’s get ready to act on his behalf! He has spent his career acting on ours!
Well, we’ll see where th’ tires meet th’ road while providing support for the Good Senator. It seems that some of his own “conservative” Republican colleagues would go against him. I type of the 8 (EIGHT) people who voted with the socio-dems on illegal alien legislation. This issue was covered extensivly here @ SRA.
A bill that was tabled by the previous Senate President was passed today. Thank you Russell Pearce & Ms. Burgess:
The Arizona Senate has approved THE bill requiring presidential candidates to prove they are U.S. citizens eligible to run for the office!!!
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Thank God we’re just a little bit ahead of thug-run Chicago. So I will do everything I can to support Pearce and shut these people down.
“Bringing lunch from home is now verboten.”
We have to stop such unacceptable behavior in children as soon as it appears. If we don’t immediately smack down such out-of-control kids they will only move on to even WORSE behavior, like reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, reading the US Constitution or the Bill of Rights, or Allah-forbid, actually THINKING FOR THEMSELVES. Such outrageous behavior might put the lunatic-left d-crat socialist NANNY STATE out of business, which would be a crime of near unimaginable proportion.
Deviant kids MUST be re-programmed by THE STATE AUTHORITIES so they don’t become an even greater threat to our lunatic-left “society”.
All hail TheOne! Resistance is futile.