Chicago Public School principle bans students from bringing own lunches - Polidicks

Here in Finland I have 99% of the time liked the school food.

I am all for schools promoting healthy eating and getting rid of bad food ([I]that they offer[/I]) but people should have a choice if they want to eat their own food. Schools should educate their students about what is better for them but not take about their choices. Is it even legal for them to do this or could students just turn around and tell them to get fucked?

[QUOTE=JDK721;29121298]yes really water fountains are full of germs and bacteria, and there's a good chance you'll get sick if you drink from one[/QUOTE] Here is what you do. Get a flask/water bottle. Go to the fountain and fill it up. Problem solved, life moves on. No germs.

[QUOTE=JDK721;29121298]yes really water fountains are full of germs and bacteria, and there's a good chance you'll get sick if you drink from one[/QUOTE] Hasn't happened yet, and I've been drinking out of them almost daily for the past 12 years.

I can't drink out of a water fountain that some cock spit his gum into. Im afraid his spit will travel upstream :ohdear:

[QUOTE=Glaber;29120841]If I was at that school, I'd be more revolting than Glen Beck at a liberal convention. and I like watching Glen Beck.[/QUOTE] Are you in love with this guy? You seem to mention him everywhere. [editline]12th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Jiyoon;29121340]I can't drink out of a water fountain that some cock spit his gum into. Im afraid his spit will travel upstream :ohdear:[/QUOTE] Flask or Water Bottle.

[QUOTE=Jad Hinto;29118168]Are you kidding me? In most places the school lunches are less healthy than the lunch a kid brings.[/QUOTE] Yeah. And Chartwells is terrible company in that respect. I've gotten food poising from their shit once. But take some other people's opinions on that: [QUOTE=http://www.grist.org/article/tales-from-a-d.c.-school-kitchen-washington-times-puts-screws-to-citys-food]Times reporter Jeffrey Anderson, meanwhile, reveals in a report today that [b]Chartwells in the past has continued to use the same foods that have been linked to disease outbreaks[/b] in different cities where they hold school contracts. The Times [b]questions whether the food Chartwells is serving in D.C. actually complies with federal standards.[/b] It also rakes the food provider for [b]failing to provide nutritional information[/b] for the food it serves, for defending the practice of serving desserts to children in Chicago and for [highlight]serving cheese nachos on a daily basis as a means of getting children to partake in school lunch options.[/highlight][/QUOTE] Their nachos are terrible, BTW. [QUOTE=http://thegauntlet.ca/story/5626]AUPE researchers conducted a Food Service Provider Survey of students' unions across Canada and found that, amongst those contacted for whom Chartwells was the provider, six out of seven of the students' unions gave Chartwells bad reviews. Complaints included poor menu selection with [b]lack of healthy choices[/b], problems with exclusivity, problems with availability of items, [b]high prices, poor food quality,[/b] poor staffing, and a complete lack of environmental sustainability practices.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=http://www.louisvillecardinal.com/2.5944/chartwell-s-business-tactics-leave-subway-owner-with-bad-taste-1.730883]In the face of a student petition, Chartwell's has finalized plans with the university to dislodge Subway's current owners and to replace Uncle Chen's Restaurant in the food court of the Student Activities Center. These actions will result in a monopoly on food service at the university by Chartwell's.[/QUOTE] Same thing happened to the uni I put up with their shit in too, they had gotten rid of the restaurants on campus that weren't them and then set up a lot of terrible expensive bullshit 'cuz every student without a car deserves to eat shit and die for the almighty profit margin. Then there's this good one on how they fucking scalp on prices: [url]http://www.dailyutahchronicle.com/opinion/chartwells-good-for-profits-bad-for-students-1.2313331[/url] So yeah I'm sure I sound like a conspiracy theorist now but there is almost certainly no goddamn way this happened without somebody being greased.

[QUOTE=BigBeretFrenchi;29121346] Flask or Water Bottle.[/QUOTE] There are various types of water fountain and some are more hygienic than others. I haven't seen one for years but the sort I can remember from when I was at school (admittedly primary school so god knows how many years ago now) just had water going straight up so it was easy for undesirable stuff to get stuck in the flow of the water. I tried to find a picture of one on the internet but I can't so I assume no one uses them anymore

[QUOTE=JDK721;29121298]yes really water fountains are full of germs and bacteria, and there's a good chance you'll get sick if you drink from one[/QUOTE] Just run it for a few seconds first

[QUOTE=Edthefirst;29121327]Hasn't happened yet, and I've been drinking out of them almost daily for the past 12 years.[/QUOTE] so you've never got sick?

This is something about American schools that has always confused me. Why don't all kids just bring their own lunches? Costs the school less money and the kids don't have to eat shit. Glad I go to an Australian school. [editline]12th April 2011[/editline] We've still got a tuckshop for kids to buy food from if they want to. Almost everyone just brings their own.

Glad I was born in the 90's so I don't have to deal with this bullshit What a fucking disgrace

That stuff is borderline prison food.

Forcing kids to eat healthy food doesn't mean they will continue to eat healthily after they are no longer forced to. It may even make them less likely to do so, especially considering how traumatizing school lunches can be.

I just leave school for lunch. Hit the grocery store usually, though sometimes I'm fucking starving and I go to a fast food place instead. Back when I was habitually raiding the fast food places, I told my mother that I was leaving campus to eat. These were her exact words, with emphasis added by me: [quote][b]If I actually thought the school food was healthy[/b], I'd bitch you out for not eating it and going to Taco Bell instead. I understand completely - if you're going to eat crap, you might as well eat crap that tastes good.[/quote] oh, and about the guy who forced kids to throw out energy drinks (I don't want to go back to page 1 to get the quote) - I understand what he's trying to do (too many of those can fuck your shit up, and a lot of kids drink that instead of water these days), but outside of his classroom he shouldn't have the ability to do that. Nor should he really do that if he had the ability - experience [b]is[/b] the best teacher. Let the kids fuck their insides up, it'll cause them to stop drinking it. and at the guy forcing the throw out of bottled water (see above for reason I'm sans quote) - ...what the actual fuck. Energy drinks, I get. But WATER?!

[QUOTE=Glaber;29120841]If I was at that school, I'd be more revolting than Glen Beck at a liberal convention. and I like watching Glen Beck.[/QUOTE] ho ho ho that would show them NOT

[QUOTE=lavacano;29121865]I just leave school for lunch. Hit the grocery store usually, though sometimes I'm fucking starving and I go to a fast food place instead. Back when I was habitually raiding the fast food places, I told my mother that I was leaving campus to eat. These were her exact words, with emphasis added by me: oh, and about the guy who forced kids to throw out energy drinks (I don't want to go back to page 1 to get the quote) - I understand what he's trying to do (too many of those can fuck your shit up, and a lot of kids drink that instead of water these days), but outside of his classroom he shouldn't have the ability to do that. Nor should he really do that if he had the ability - experience [b]is[/b] the best teacher. Let the kids fuck their insides up, it'll cause them to stop drinking it. and at the guy forcing the throw out of bottled water (see above for reason I'm sans quote) - ...what the actual fuck. Energy drinks, I get. But WATER?![/QUOTE] Generally, Your not allowed to leave school grounds during the school day so that wont work. I did go to a school that did allow this but you had to be enrolled in a college level course and have a waver signed saying the school district isn't responsible for you if you do leave campus. It was really nice having that 2 hour lunch period.

I would never let my children eat school food.

[QUOTE=.50 Cal;29118796]Indeed it is. Aspertame (the artificial sweetener they use) is known to cause cancer.[/QUOTE] Everything is known to increase your risk of cancer

[QUOTE=markfu;29119227]I remember when my brother did this with some Asian candy. Since none of the white kids knew where to buy he and a few others sold them for like a dollar a piece. When he stopped I think he had 200 dollars or something.[/QUOTE] In grade one, I bought all the paddlepops, and sold them at 5x the price. They had to institute limits on food per person because of me.

[QUOTE=Jiyoon;29121150]thats to keep it clean. Pretty much all tap water has chlorine in it. What you should be worried about is what environment you live around that warrants higher levels of chlorine than other places. Mean your area is filthy[/QUOTE] The water company we get out tap water from not too long ago put a massive fuck ton of chlorine into the water. Prior to knowing that they did this I brought my water canister to school, and right before I took a drink out of it I smelled the water. It smelled like a fucking swimming pool. We had to go out and buy a water filter to drink from for weeks. I'm just hoping that our report of it to the EPA will actually do something. [editline]12th April 2011[/editline] On a related note, this is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen a school do. Way to improve the kids health with school cafeteria "food". The only two schools I've ever had decent food at are from my elementary school in CA and a middle school I went to in SC.

[QUOTE=Bluesummers;29126143]Everything is known to increase your risk of cancer[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTu7GLfrmUI[/media]

What a greedy ass school.

oh my god the memories of school cafeteria food are coming back, make it stop! Its funny because I think my school knew their food they were required to serve sucked so they set up a "snack line" which served halfway decent food (for about 4 times the price) like pizzas and fried chicken.

[QUOTE=Trinholdt;29118251]If I were them, I'd bring it anyway. No fucking way I'm letting a school take away my right to not eat the shit they pull out of their asses.[/QUOTE] That, and if the school has a problem with it they can suck my dick. Schools often think they have absolute power over anything that is inside the school perimeter, and will act accordingly as long as no-one does anything. One of my old schools in Italy thought they could forbid me from going to the bathroom all day except from 9:00 to 9:30 (yeah they said that if you needed to go later, you couldn't). Went to the principal 5 times over that (but not before going to the bathroom) but it was so worth it.

forcing people to pay $2.25 a day for school lunches unless my school was shit public school food is fucking awful in america [editline]12th April 2011[/editline] MMMM hairy mashed potatos MMMM moldy bread Oh yay expired milk :downs:

[QUOTE=Glaber;29120841]If I was at that school, I'd be more revolting than Glen Beck at a liberal convention. and I like watching Glen Beck.[/QUOTE] The Onion is a more reliable news source than Glenn Beck, man, get your shit together. Also, the water at my school is just awful, tastes like rusty metal and makes me gag, it's discoloured too.

[QUOTE=Edthefirst;29118363]Although, it certainly is a good business for students. They can smuggle in snacks and shit; then they sell them to kids for huge markup. Hell, I think it'd be awesome to be some food dealing middle-schooler. I actually did that with my lunch. I'd pack a few extra sandwiches and sell them to kids for a dollar or two so I could buy ice-cream.[/QUOTE] My old High School in Nova Scotia got rid of all their coke machines and chocolate bars when they passed a province-wide health bill something like 7 years ago now (Holy shit, am I that old?). Me and some friends would sneak off grounds to a supermarket, buy dozens of candy bar and soda packs, then sell them $1 a piece back on school grounds. Made like, $300 that month before they brought us to the office and threatened suspensions for whatever reason.

what is this healthy food you speak of seriously the only close to healthy food is fatty rice(exclude ordering your own food but who the fuck does that during lunch hours?)

[QUOTE=User;29119256]It's not up to the school to decide what the kids eat. Their job is to educate the students attending there. For everything else they can fuck off.[/QUOTE] This. My comp is trying to limit what we can eat because of this bullshit 'healthy schools flag' or something. My primary school tried to do it when I was in year 6 - the final stage was confiscating chocolate from kids if seen in a lunchbox or IN THEIR HAND. Do we have any rights?