DUmmy DonRedwood Cannot Decide If He's Rich Or Poor

[J. M. Pyne]

I'll bet his school is prohibited from holding bake sales to raise funds for the chess club because FDA doesn't approve.

[Karin]

She wasn't allowed to bring anything, including candy.  The school district didn't want lawsuits.

Excellent point, Shadeaux.  And the spoilage of all this stuff, he says it's supposed to last them 2 months?  (Makes it sound like one of those shipwreck survivor movies).  The DUmbass doesn't think about continuity when he's composing his stories, does he?  But what was really sickening was the behavior of the other DUmbasses.  They swallow anything you care to throw at them, and they always, always, weep.  

wow
I don't know what to say.
My wife just looked over at me tearing up.
She's reading your post now.

   You are a gullible idiot.  Dry your eyes, Princess.  You've been had.  

[miskie]

As far as I know, peanut butter has been banned by every school because of peanut allergies.

Bread, bananas, oranges, apples won't last 2 months.

BTW, my ex DIL worked at one of the poorest rated poorest schools in Louisiana and she never bought any food for her class. She wasn't allowed to bring anything, including candy.  The school district didn't want lawsuits.

Yes indeed. So much for that bouncy.

[shadeaux]

The DUmmies can spin the stories all they want but this new starve obesity, starve the kids is ALL Michelle Obama.  ALL OF IT.

The new school year brings the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was signed into law in 2010. The Act gives the USDA the power to set nutritional standards for all food sold in schools and it is aimed to provide healthy options and fight childhood obesity.

Parents are complaining of kids coming home hungry, kids not getting enough to eat.

They are told if they have any complaints with Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act should call their legislators.

More guidelines are expected. 

[GOBUCKS]

Maybe DUmmy DonRedwood is like the late, unlamented, misspelled DUmmy hippywife.

She always took trinkets to her nursing home job, forcing the old folks to buy if they wanted dinner or help in the bathroom.

I don't recall where the DUmmy said he was giving snacks to the schoolkids for free.

What's a fair price for a month-old banana?

[FiddyBeowulf]

The DUmmies can spin the stories all they want but this new starve obesity, starve the kids is ALL Michelle Obama.  ALL OF IT.

The new school year brings the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was signed into law in 2010. The Act gives the USDA the power to set nutritional standards for all food sold in schools and it is aimed to provide healthy options and fight childhood obesity.

Parents are complaining of kids coming home hungry, kids not getting enough to eat.

They are told if they have any complaints with Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act should call their legislators.

More guidelines are expected. 

According to my friend on a local school board "because of the Obama school nutrition mandates every child must take 1 cup of fresh fruit and 1 cup of fresh vegetables in order for the meal to be reimbursable to the food service company."

This means the kids are going to get served food to eat, if the kids are not getting enough to eat it is because they are not eating it. I am not agreeing with the mandate just pointing out there is no reason for a student going home hungry other than making a choice of not eating. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

This mole is soooo close to that magic 1,000, but overdoing it now that it thinks it's almost home.  Lighten up, teach, you're blowing your cover.

[GOBUCKS]

This mole is soooo close to that magic 1,000, but overdoing it now that it thinks it's almost home.  Lighten up, teach, you're blowing your cover.

The one thousand mark was significant at the Old DUmp, because all your posts would show "1000+ posts", and confer some measure of DUmp cred.

At the New DUmp, exact post counts are shown.

Now anyone under 10,000 posts is always suspected of being a decent and civilized person.

[shadeaux]

One mother complained 2 chicken nuggets and 5 fries weren't enough for her high school son.
The school district increased the nugget count by 1.   

I found a lunch picture.  I don't know what age group it's for, it was one posted on the government site.



The guidelines say you can pack your own lunch but cannot buy a lunch and bring any extra from home.  It's either or.

Guidelines suggest you pack what's on the government site if you do bring your own.  LOL, it's only a matter of time before the lunch bag shakedowns happen.

BTW, lunch prices increased by .25 for less food but it's healthier.   

[Scoobie]

Sun Sep 9, 2012, 08:27 PM
DonRedwood (850 posts)
27. No check here since June too. OUCH!!
I put the food on my credit card :0( with the rationale that I will skip lunch.

I shamed my supervisor into letting me get new crayons in my room this year. My district gives each room a small budget buy I have a BIG class (almost double ALL the other special ed rooms) and I get the same amount of money as rooms with less than half the number of students I have.

I have to buy all the kleenex, sanitizer, diapers, cleaning supplies out of that small amount. Last year the district even took the money to clean the rugs in my room out of my classroom budget.

I am making almost 100% of my own curriculum as well. No library in my school.

Oh FF’s sake, do they not have “supply lists” that are sent out prior to school?

Each year the list is ever-increasing to include items for the teacher and the classroom….the lists I received this year included a PLETHORA of items that obviously were to supplement the class as a whole, and the teacher specifically.

Some of the items from this year’s lists (in addition to the folder/notebook/filler paper for my child): 3 boxes of pencils, Crayons, Jumbo Markers, two packs each  of black and red correcting pens, 10 highlighters, two packages of green felt-tip marking pens (had to be felt-tip, not ball point), 12-pack of Dry Erase Markers with an eraser, multiple sizes of Ziplock bags, Boxes of tissues, and “as much hand sanitizer as possible”. It was unbelievable the amount of items that were for the “class as a whole”.

So don’t give me that “had to shame my supervisor into getting a box of crayons” BS. My guess would be that some (if not a good majority) of those parents, much like myself, supplied MORE than enough to cover all the children in the class, for any necessary supplies that are needed.


Also...I pack my kids' lunch every day. Imagine my surprise when I got the handout sent home that strongly encourages me to follow Moochelle's ideas for a healthy lunch. It doesn't just apply to the items supplied by the school...I am supposed to follow it as well, in the lunch i pack and send with them to school.   

[Gina]

Also...I pack my kids' lunch every day. Imagine my surprise when I got the handout sent home that strongly encourages me to follow Moochelle's ideas for a healthy lunch. It doesn't just apply to the items supplied by the school...I am supposed to follow it as well, in the lunch i pack and send with them to school.   

Holy shit!  I would have busted some ass if they sent that shit home to me. 

[Scoobie]

Holy shit!  I would have busted some ass if they sent that shit home to me. 

Nah...I just put an extra Twinkie in their lunchboxes. 

[Karin]

RE:  Shadeaux's lunch picture.

My main meal and caloric intake for the day is lunch.  I eat like a bird for breakfast and dinner, but I can pack away a good lunch, always have.  If you gave that to me, I'd be starving by 2:00, and thinking of nothing else.
This is panicky-bathing-suit-season food. 

I sense a black market a-brewing. 

[Chris_]

What kind of lunch is that?  Preschool?  If someone gave me half a sandwich for lunch, I'd be pissed.

[shadeaux]

My sister has a high school grandchild so I asked her about the lunches.

She was told that lunch pictured is only one of the choices and the portions served at the high school and middle school will be substantially less than before, and yes the schools will be charging more.

The kids used to be able to get seconds, anyone wanting more for free, after everyone was served if there was food left but were told the government said they couldn't do that anymore.

Can you buy a second lunch ?  No.

She also told me the school menus have been taken down from the school site.  So you get what you get.

This is from her hometown school.  Others may vary.

[Jasonw560]

We get lists for things our kids need, and I believe some of it is for the class as well.

At the beginning of every school year, the local TV stations (and I believe the regional grocery chain down here, HEB) hold a school supply drive for those kids whose parents can't afford the supplies.

Oh, and our kids have lunch accounts. We can add money, and they can buy food to supplement their lunches from home we pack, or their whole lunches (and extra food if they are really hungry.)

[67 Rover]

What kind of lunch is that?  Preschool?  If someone gave me half a sandwich for lunch, I'd be pissed.

I would bet big $ that since this is a government job, probably someone makes a whole sandwich cuts it in half and throws the other half away before making the next one.

[lastparker]

Yes, we too get THE LIST and it includes community goods.  This is the first year in six that I decided not to buy any tissues or hand sanitizer.  I will send tissues the first day my kid goes in with a runny nose, and I am boycotting the hand sanitizer entirely.  The stuff dries out the skin, and the filthy little bastards think they no longer have to use soap and water with all the hand sanitizer around.... then they come home with dirty paws covered in a day's worth of snot, peanut butter and paste.  Disgusting.

[dane]

Oh FF’s sake, do they not have “supply lists” that are sent out prior to school?

Each year the list is ever-increasing to include items for the teacher and the classroom….the lists I received this year included a PLETHORA of items that obviously were to supplement the class as a whole, and the teacher specifically.

Some of the items from this year’s lists (in addition to the folder/notebook/filler paper for my child): 3 boxes of pencils, Crayons, Jumbo Markers, two packs each  of black and red correcting pens, 10 highlighters, two packages of green felt-tip marking pens (had to be felt-tip, not ball point), 12-pack of Dry Erase Markers with an eraser, multiple sizes of Ziplock bags, Boxes of tissues, and “as much hand sanitizer as possible”. It was unbelievable the amount of items that were for the “class as a whole”.

So don’t give me that “had to shame my supervisor into getting a box of crayons” BS. My guess would be that some (if not a good majority) of those parents, much like myself, supplied MORE than enough to cover all the children in the class, for any necessary supplies that are needed.


Also...I pack my kids' lunch every day. Imagine my surprise when I got the handout sent home that strongly encourages me to follow Moochelle's ideas for a healthy lunch. It doesn't just apply to the items supplied by the school...I am supposed to follow it as well, in the lunch i pack and send with them to school.   

We are of an age that now we have great-grandchildren in school.  What you said about lists is true .  Each school year we contact the teachers of whatever school age kids are related to us and tell that teacher to keep us informed as to what supplies are needed in the classroom as the year progresses, and we will make an effort to ensure those supplies are available.  We know of many grandparents in this area who do the same thing for the offspring of their offspring.  I call BS on the responses in DUDOnRedmond's thread, but I do wonder why he/she/Pat has diapers on the list of supplies he/she/Pat buys.

[BattleHymn]

With lunches like that, expect this sort of behavior at a school cafeteria near you:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YfvBbxE1vU[/youtube]

The skinny kids are going to have to form gangs to fend off the fatties from their trays.

[Skul]

Redwood's BS, is nothing more than a "sympathy post" to show his/her/its, support for poor, poor teachers in chicago.
Idiot ought to change the DUmp handle to Doonyweepingwillow.

[GOBUCKS]

If the First Wookie had that lunch every day, she wouldn't have that 50" ass.

[franksolich]

Not only "payed" bills, but I don't think he/she/Pat is really a teacher.

About this time last year--or maybe it was two years ago about this time--one of the primitives starring here in the DUmpster was some squishy "gay" guy ostensibly from Portland, Oregon or thereabouts, who got all upset and bent out of shape that his comments were all over the internet, and ran away from Skins's island.

I forget his name; a fat short blubbery little guy.

And by the way, what does "Pat" mean in your comments when referring to primitive gender?

[BattleHymn]

About this time last year--or maybe it was two years ago about this time--one of the primitives starring here in the DUmpster was some squishy "gay" guy ostensibly from Portland, Oregon or thereabouts, who got all upset and bent out of shape that his comments were all over the internet, and ran away from Skins's island.

I forget his name; a fat short blubbery little guy.

And by the way, what does "Pat" mean in your comments when referring to primitive gender?

Wasn't he a teacher, too?  Or am I thinking of another primitive?

[GOBUCKS]

And by the way, what does "Pat" mean in your comments when referring to primitive gender?

Some years ago, "Pat" was a recurring character on Saturday Night Live. Pat was a short-haired, effeminate, male-dressed character with a gender non-specific name. No one knew if Pat was male or female, and was too embarrassed to ask, so they kept looking for clues. Every male clue would be offset by a female clue.