"Chicago School Bans Homemade Lunches"

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13 Apr 2011, 9:18 am

it is difficult to live outside the rulings of the general society of humans.
humans think they are so powerful and important, that they must impose their decision of how all life should live on all lives.

there is a general hysteria that is welling in humanity at the moment which makes them think that if they leave anything to nature (which they conceive of as "chance"), then anything that is remotely sufferable is their fault due to dereliction of their duty to control.

freedom to act is being stifled and impeded by not only forceful societal influence, but also penalties that are imposed for not living every minute and taking every breath to the letter of their laws.

it is saturating even the most mundane and innocuous areas of our lives. i have recently realized that all children in playgrounds at lunch time wear wide brimmed hats and have sunscreen plastered on their faces. it must be a new rule to prevent any possible litigation arising from sun damage to the "precious kids".

people who do jobs that experience any amount of noise that is above tranquil, all wear ear muffs because it must be a new law.

i have noticed that everyone i see that is in the act of professionally just mowing lawns all wear ear muffs and goggles and thick overalls and fluorescent shirts and steel capped boots because they must now do so or be fined.

all the swings in parks have been removed because of the chance that a brat may go splat somewhere once in every 10 years.

someone got stung on the foot by a fish in a warm tidal pool in the rocks at the headland of a beach during low tide a few years ago and successfully sued the local council for $300,000, now all rock pools have been demolished up and down the coast so no one else can be stung by a fish and sue.

the other day, i was in a traffic jam because of a small pothole on the road 10 km up ahead. the council had closed that whole side of the road (3 lanes) about 2 km from the pothole, and we had to cross over to the other side of the road guided by fluoro shirted goggled and earmuffed lollipop men (traffic control executives). the delay was massive and the pothole that instigated it was insignificant.

i have often felt insultingly imposed upon by those who want to control my life, and i thought that it is the price for living in "society". if i want to use a road, then i have to obey the rules of those who built the road. i could not build and stock a supermarket for me to use. i can not build a road to where i want to commute to. i can not build the vehicle that i drive. i am at the mercy of society if i want to live in it.

but the really scary thing that i realized is that i have no choice but to live in society. if i wanted to just throw every trapping of society away and go back to nature, then i would soon be arrested for trespassing on crown land, and i would have additional charges of poaching the fauna and flora, and i would be arrested for building a dwelling that is not approved of on lands that i have no right to be upon (even if those lands have never been set foot on by another human). if my clothes wore out and i refused to go and earn a buck to buy new ones i would be arrested for merely being uncovered by anyone that saw me, even if it was just the passengers in the police helicopter that discovered i was "at large" on "public property".

i can not go bush and throw away my citizenship in humanity because i will be found and incarcerated by society because i do not subscribe to their rules and pay for the "right" to live free. you are not allowed to live as a human unless you pay for it.

a school got sued for $30,000 and a teacher lost his career for touching a little girl who sustained a gash on her leg. he assaulted her by placing a bandaid (surgical dressing?) on her bleeding leg. when the bandaid had to be removed, it caused her pain (due to the ripping off of the sticky dressing), and so there was much public consternation over her pain of having the dressing removed.

now it is mandatory for all injuries to children be addressed by paramedics.


how things will be in 70 years at this rate of acceleration of human encroachment to freedom does not bear consideration. i am glad i will not be alive in 70 years.



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13 Apr 2011, 9:36 am

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Here in Sweden it is an offense for anyone to take anything containing nuts onto any school premises.


:lol: :o :roll: 8O


That's pretty much how I reacted too. But you get used to it. At the university where my husband works there are even areas which are marked as scent free, where you are not allowed if you are wearing strong deoderant or perfume in case you trigger someone's allergy.



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13 Apr 2011, 11:39 am

MotherKnowsBest wrote:
Tequila wrote:
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Here in Sweden it is an offense for anyone to take anything containing nuts onto any school premises.


:lol: :o :roll: 8O


That's pretty much how I reacted too. But you get used to it. At the university where my husband works there are even areas which are marked as scent free, where you are not allowed if you are wearing strong deoderant or perfume in case you trigger someone's allergy.


That's probably taking it a bit far.


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13 Apr 2011, 11:45 am

You know, this cradle to grave the state is mother, the state is father, is the far-left's idea of a utopia.



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13 Apr 2011, 11:49 am

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You know, this cradle to grave the state is mother, the state is father, is the far-left's idea of a utopia.


Um... what?


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13 Apr 2011, 11:54 am

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
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You know, this cradle to grave the state is mother, the state is father, is the far-left's idea of a utopia.


Um... what?


Seriously, school lunch pizza tasted like cardboard back when I was in elementary-highschool. Their food generally tasted awful, I even managed to end up with 3 rotten apples in a row in a single day for school lunch in high school.

I ended up living off the vending machine in high school or eating a minimeal when I got home. I can see why kids bring their own meals, they don't want to end up with food poisoning.



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13 Apr 2011, 12:00 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
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You know, this cradle to grave the state is mother, the state is father, is the far-left's idea of a utopia.


Um... what?


Seriously, school lunch pizza tasted like cardboard back when I was in elementary-highschool. Their food generally tasted awful, I even managed to end up with 3 rotten apples in a row in a single day for school lunch in high school.

I ended up living off the vending machine in high school or eating a minimeal when I got home. I can see why kids bring their own meals, they don't want to end up with food poisoning.


So you're really against this because you assume this school *must* have food that's just as bad, but wanted to make an unintelligible reply about those evil left wingers.

Got it.


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13 Apr 2011, 12:09 pm

TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
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You know, this cradle to grave the state is mother, the state is father, is the far-left's idea of a utopia.


Um... what?
Two words:
Nanny state.

He's basically saying the far-left considers it ideal for the government to babysit everyone.



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13 Apr 2011, 12:11 pm

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TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
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You know, this cradle to grave the state is mother, the state is father, is the far-left's idea of a utopia.


Um... what?
Two words:
Nanny state.

He's basically saying the far-left considers it ideal for the government to babysit everyone.


Yeah, I figured it would be something like that. The problem with what he said is that public school is basically glorified babysitting already.


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13 Apr 2011, 2:16 pm

I'm the odd one out here. I loved my school dinners. Primary school was the old style school dinners, spotted dick and custard, semolina, egg custard tart. Om nom nom. Secondary was public school for me (that would be a type of private boarding school to those of you in America). Very posh and lovely foods that I had never had before, all made fresh on site. The food was amazing, it was the other students who were a problem.



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13 Apr 2011, 2:24 pm

@b9: 8O

Wow, very well-said. I've been thinking about what it would be like to "live off the grid" myself, but even if I had the necessary survival skills, you're absolutely right. We are, in essence, *trapped* by society because everything is *civilized* :roll:

Ever read Emile Durkheim or Anthony Giddens? Look up "modernity" and you'll find a lot of interesting reading.

@AceOfSpades: Yep, "nanny state" indeed. I'm sick of that, too. If I ever have kids I hope I can homeschool.


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13 Apr 2011, 2:27 pm

Homeschooling is a viable option in most states. So are private schools.


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13 Apr 2011, 4:11 pm

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b9 wrote:
freedom to act is being stifled and impeded by not only forceful societal influence, but also penalties that are imposed for not living every minute and taking every breath to the letter of their laws.

it is saturating even the most mundane and innocuous areas of our lives. i have recently realized that all children in playgrounds at lunch time wear wide brimmed hats and have sunscreen plastered on their faces. it must be a new rule to prevent any possible litigation arising from sun damage to the "precious kids".



I'm afraid we are all going to evolve into a species that quite literally does not know when to get out of the sun.


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13 Apr 2011, 6:34 pm

I dont mind school lunches (or the limited selections within). Clearly the lunches themselves could be better but I learn to cope because the meals are different and I'm not stuck eating the same thing everyday.

But I doubt many families in Chicago afford to spend $2.25 every single school day on one meal for each kid. You can make decent lunches for your kids at a much lower rate than that.



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13 Apr 2011, 6:40 pm

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But I doubt many families in Chicago afford to spend $2.25 every single school day on one meal for each kid. You can make decent lunches for your kids at a much lower rate than that.


Exactly my point, or part of it.


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13 Apr 2011, 6:58 pm

conundrum wrote:
raisedbyignorance wrote:
But I doubt many families in Chicago afford to spend $2.25 every single school day on one meal for each kid. You can make decent lunches for your kids at a much lower rate than that.


Exactly my point, or part of it.


It's not a very good one, though. Subsidized lunch is pretty easy to get.


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