Child Suspended from School for Kombucha in Lunchbox
October 14, 2012
Healthy Home Economist
10/13/2012
The lunch police have struck again.
First, there was the story of a preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School in North Carolina who was given a highly processed, cafeteria lunch containing pink slime chicken nuggets on January 30, 2012 because the school decided that the turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice her mother packed was not nutritious enough.
Now comes the story of an elementary school boy from Newport Beach, California who was suspended from school this week for the kombucha in his lunchbox that school administration said violated the school district’s drug and alcohol policy.
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Harold
Why am I not surprised. Once in a great while, we read or hear about an amazing teacher; However, for the rest? I have no respect for teachers at all. They hate the old saying about Teachers teach because they can’t do anything else (paraphrase, more than likely).
In graduate School at Texas A&M. M.S. in Counseling: Teachers working on their Masters Degree to be School Counselors were also in some of our classes.
During the very first test during the very first Semester, I noticed that all of the teachers were sitting at the back of the room with their books open during a test asking each other “what page was that answer on?” They didn’t care we could hear them. They “were allowed to openly cheat”.
During a course in Advanced Psychology. AGAIN, During the Mid-Semester and Final Exams, they had their books out in plain sight; and no one said a word. The ONLY people who weren’t allowed to cheat were White and getting a M.S. in either Psychology or Counseling.