Absolutely disagree with them searching lunch boxes. Far left tactics for sure. & the mind game it plays on the kids themselves is wrong

When I was a kid there was one pop machine in the school building... It was in the teachers lounge. If you aced a test or really shined in some way, your teacher might have rewarded you with your choice of flavor of pop.

Otherwise we drank water from the fountain. Not even a stainless model with the chiller... Plain white porcelain with water at room temp.

And your school lunch was made with real food... Kinda bland, but it wasn't junk food. And you got white or chocolate milk to drink with it.

My folks paid for the lunch... I'm sure it was a bargain, but they still had to pay for it.

Now these kids get lunches subsidized by Pizza Hut and Taco Bell and all the pop they can drink.

Mike

Maybe not chips and soda but when Mrs. Obama stuck here nose in the lunch room and portions were cut my daughter needed to eat more. You might not think so but she was a three sport athlete that burned as many calories as a hummingbird. I about went broke feeding that kid lol.

Maybe kids should not be allowed to sell anything at school that is not endorsed? Just a thought. Top of the list is drugs, tobacco, vape stuff, knives, weapons, porn, phones, clothing, shoes, religious related sales, etc. School is not a swap meet or pawn shop for stolen property.

Many kid’s parents cannot afford school logo items or fund raising items. I don’t support vending machines either.

When I was a kid, and we had some dirt poor kids who needed clothing more than chips. We had kids who didn’t have plumbing, needed baths, and maybe had one change of clothes. This was in the 50s before segregation. Lord only knows what hardship the other kids had. At my school, we gave the teacher 50 cents on Monday, and that paid for five lunches. I don’t remember free lunches, so I feel certain some students went hungry. In farming communities, there was not much money to spend until harvest time. We had no manufacturing jobs. If your parents worked for the schools or the post office, you were rich. Two or three families owned all the farm land. I remember we paid the grocer every year in the fall. Every boy had a pocket knife and a pocket full of marbles for recess.

Sure did drift from the topic. I’m sorry.

Pretty sure Mike packs Berrys lunch nightly....

Yep, and the Sr boys would spit their used up chaw in the drinking fountains.
And I LOVED our school lunches. I'd go back for seconds if there was any left. Home made cinnamon rolls and chili soup on Thursdays or home made vegetable soup. Pigs in a blanket, porcupine meatballs. Loved it all.
I still remember Mrs Clark scratching her sweaty armpits with her hands and asking "one sammich, or two?"

I remember when in 4th grade they had gov surplus food. Cheese, peanut butter. and olives was the main ones I remember. They would keep at least one of those out on the table and one could eat all they wanted.
We had one kid that wasn't overweight but was very athletic and a big eater. One day they served baloney salad sandwich's as the main course. They always overloaded them with ground up cheese and mayonnaise and who knows whatever. Everybody hated them except for the one kid and he liked them, so we all gave him ours. He ate 21 and then after lunch when we was having social studies he puked all those sandwich's up right into his open book, lol.
What a shame it would be if the gov tried to oversee all of our life's experiences!

Why is their first thought to search and seize lunches as opposed to just banning the sale of items?

Back in my day they would never have had the balls to try that crap. Too many really big kids and parents who would back them up. That is not including the clever stuff we would have pulled.

Look what Keith wrote above, he nailed it!

Kick their arse. I’m sure that’s what my grandfather would have done. It’s a family problem not a government problem.

My Dad caught a skunk on the way to school. The teacher made him hang his coat outside in a tree.

Yep, chili day meant cinnamon rolls... And they were worth fist fighting over.

I don't know where they got the corn but it was pretty awesome too. I don't know how much butter they used in it but it sure was good.

Real food instead of junk, all the water you cared to drink, 2 recesses a day in elementary school, and then riding bikes and playing outside after you got home instead of hours of video games.

We were pretty poor but looking back it was still a pretty decent time to be a kid.

Mike

We had the cook put a loaf of bread and a bowl of honey on our table. They did it because we helped the cooks and this was our treat. Miss the great food we had every day at school. I was a farm boy so I was always hungry.