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Monday, April 11, 2011

Public School Bans Homemade Lunches


[VIDEO] This video is out of Chicago's Little Village Academy where the principal wants to protect her students from unhealthy food choices. Doing so means preventing children from bringing to school their own lunch and forcing them to eat whatever is in the school's cafeteria. Even though as reported in this video from FOX News, the students may well not like the food and choose to throw it in the trash.

At least it's not CPS policy to do so and that the Principal made the call on this. I would be highly upset about this especially if I know to give my child a healthy sandwich, a juice, or even a piece of fruit. Who is this person to say that I as a parent (not a parent yet, personally) don't know how to make healthy food choices?

UPDATED 6:00 PM District 299 has other related links to this story.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Concerned Citizens of Chatham: Howard University Ready To Teach Program

Concerned Citizens of Chatham: Howard University Ready To Teach Program: "HOWARD UNIVERSITY recruitng for participants for its “Ready to Teach” program, The 2011 cohort has space for 10 participants from Chicago ..."