1 in 5 kids in the US are obese. Not overweight, Obese.
If the parents cant take care to ensure their kids are healthy the state has to step in to prevent a real health crisis.
You don't want schools fucking with your kids lunch? treat them better yourself.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
Its actually cheaper to make it from scratch than it is to buy a case of frozen pizzas from Sysco, but the school "cooks" are too damn lazy to do anything other than throw frozen food into an oven. Nothing cheaper than flour, a bit of yeast, and water. You could make 10 pizza crusts for the cost of 1 frozen pizza, and the sauce can be made inexpensively too.
They aren't wrong. If I sent my younger child to school with crap for for lunch (my kindergartener) I'd get a note sent home detailing what they were missing nutritionally, and some places even throw that lunch away, supplement them with a school lunch and then charge you for it.
...I'd send my child to school with half a home-made pizza and tell them to eat it right in front of whoever made this rule.
I would refuse to pay. If I took the the time to pack a lunch for my child, it would be what I and said child deemed tasty and appropiate. If they're going to throw out my hard work, I'm billing them for the cost of what was in it. If they keep doing it, I'd buy something super expensive.
Last edited by Time Sage; 2017-09-25 at 04:46 PM.
Yes, limiting the amount of slices once at week at school will set them on the right path in life! I'm sure every one of these children have parents who feed them nothing but nutritious all the time and never order a pizza as well; but if the time ever did come where their parents chose to be abusive and bought pizza for dinner...these kids now know to say "NO! I cannot take 2 slices, mom... eating 2 pieces means I will become extremely obese and not be a healthy person!".
Thank God all the people feigning agreement the comments here that eating pizza is bad for kids never ate pizza or any junkfood as a kid. Giving children pizza sometimes is truly TRULY one of the worst things that could happen to a poor defenseless child.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
Don't most kids just take their own lunch? I stopped eating school dinners at age 6
Many do, except on days where the school is serving something the kids might want, like pizza. Home made lunch can get kind of boring or stale.
My kids bring their own lunch but are allowed to buy once a week, if there's pizza on the menu for that week they always pick that day.
I am so fucking glad I graduated in the 90s....
From 1985-1993, I lived across the street from my school and just went home for 30 minutes and made my own lunches. High school lunches were pretty good though as we had 3-4 choices each day and my favorite was the build your own sandwich (usually got the kaiser roll with ham, lettuce, tomato, pickles, and a slice of pepperjack cheese) with some baked french fries.
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LOL - no, no it isnt. Perfecting a recipe for pizza is a skill, but actually making them takes about the same amount of talent as putting a frozen one in a microwave. You can knead the crust instead of tossing it and come out with a perfectly acceptable result.
OT- schools do this kind of stuff all the time, it's called cutting costs. Now they just have an easy way to spin spending half as much money on feeding your children.
In the land of the free government and government funded schools determine how much pizza is to much pizza.