Re: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria Nuggets

February 17, 2012

According to the article I read the school is a pre-K school or head start type

program and under law had the right to look intot the lunch. They didn't take

away the girls packed lunch they just gave her a school lunch too and she chose

to eat only the chicken nuggets. The school is being investigated and the

parent found out because the child brought home her untouched packed lunch.

Here is the article I read:

Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria " Nuggets "

State agent inspects sack lunches, forces preschoolers to purchase cafeteria

food instead By Sara Burrows

Feb. 14th, 2012

More |

RAEFORD - A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets

for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed

was not nutritious.

The girl's turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did

not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the

interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at

Four classroom that day.

The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of

Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten

programs - including in-home day care centers - to meet USDA guidelines. That

means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one

serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches

are brought from home.

When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care

providers must supplement them with the missing ones.

The girl's mother - who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her

daughter from retaliation - said she received a note from the school stating

that students who did not bring a " healthy lunch " would be offered the missing

portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25.

" I don't feel that I should pay for a cafeteria lunch when I provide lunch for

her from home, " the mother wrote in a complaint to her state representative,

Republican G.L. Pridgen of Robeson County.

The girl's grandmother, who sometimes helps pack her lunch, told Carolina

Journal that she is a petite, picky 4-year-old who eats white whole wheat bread

and is not big on vegetables.

" What got me so mad is, number one, don't tell my kid I'm not packing her lunch

box properly, " the girl's mother told CJ. " I pack her lunchbox according to what

she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She

eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn't really

care for vegetables. "

When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what

she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered.

Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

" She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed, because she chose to eat

the nuggets on the lunch tray, because they put it in front of her, " her mother

said. " You're telling a 4-year-old. 'oh. you're lunch isn't right,' and she's

thinking there's something wrong with her food. "

While the mother and grandmother thought the potato chips and lack of vegetable

were what disqualified the lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child

Development said that should not have been a problem.

" With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein, your grain, and if it had

cheese on it, that's the dairy, " said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and statutory

policy manager for the division. " It sounds like the lunch itself would've met

all of the standard. " The lunch has to include a fruit or vegetable, but not

both, she said.

There are no clear restrictions about what additional items - like potato chips

- can be included in preschoolers' lunch boxes.

" If a parent sends their child with a Coke and a Twinkie, the child care

provider is going to need to provide a balanced lunch for the child, "

Kozlowski said.

Ultimately, the child care provider can't take the Coke and Twinkie away from

the child, but Kozlowski said she " would think the Pre-K provider would talk

with the parent about that not being a healthy choice for their child. "

It is unclear whether the school was allowed to charge for the cafeteria lunches

they gave to every preschooler in the class that day.

The state regulation reads:

" Sites must provide breakfast and/or snacks and lunch meeting USDA requirements

during the regular school day. The partial/full cost of meals may be charged

when families do not qualify for free/reduced price meals.

" When children bring their own food for meals and snacks to the center, if the

food does not meet the specified nutritional requirements, the center must

provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. "

Still, Kozlowski said, the parents shouldn't have been charged.

" The school may have interpreted [the rule] to mean they felt like the lunch

wasn't meeting the nutritional requirements and so they wanted the child to have

the school lunch and then charged the parent, " she said.

" It sounds like maybe a technical assistance need for that school. "

The school principal, Jackie s, said he didn't " know anything about "

parents being charged for the meals that day. " I know they eat in the cafeteria.

Whether they pay or not, they eat in the cafeteria. "

Pridgen's office is looking into the issue.

Sara Burrows is an associate editor of Carolina Journal.

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/homemade-lunch-replaced-with-cafeteria\

-nuggets.html

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Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 6:29 AM

To: rd-usa

Subject: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria

" Nuggets "

I truly hope this family files charges against this person for:

1. Harrassment

2. Theft of private property

This is just so wrong - and great points Mavis. What IF this had been a

gluten free sandwich for a young girl with celiac disease?

Jan Patenaude, RD, CLT

Director of Medical Nutrition

Signet Diagnostic Corp.

Telecommuting Nationwide

(Mountain Time)

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I would be livid. Why is any employee allowed to go through children's

lunch boxes? This one is obviously clueless. What happens when an " approved "

school lunch is used to replace a lunch for a child with allergies or

special food requirements or restrictions? If employees can't tell when a lunch

meets the requirements, how can they be expected to understand something

like a gluten free diet?

February 17, 2012

No one has the " right " to invade a family's privacy by inspecting a child's

lunch box and telling that child his/her mother doesn't feed them right,

particularly the government! From what I am hearing, the people of this state

are outraged, as they should be.

W. Rowell, RD, LN, CLT

Montana State Hospital

Long Term Care Consultant

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From: rd-usa [mailto:rd-usa ] On Behalf Of

Green

Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:44 AM

To: 'rd-usa '

Subject: RE: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria

" Nuggets "

According to the article I read the school is a pre-K school or head start type

program and under law had the right to look intot the lunch. They didn't take

away the girls packed lunch they just gave her a school lunch too and she chose

to eat only the chicken nuggets. The school is being investigated and the parent

found out because the child brought home her untouched packed lunch. Here is the

article I read:

Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria " Nuggets "

State agent inspects sack lunches, forces preschoolers to purchase cafeteria

food instead By Sara Burrows

Feb. 14th, 2012

More |

RAEFORD - A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets

for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed

was not nutritious.

The girl's turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did

not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the

interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at

Four classroom that day.

The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of

Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten

programs - including in-home day care centers - to meet USDA guidelines. That

means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one

serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches

are brought from home.

When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care

providers must supplement them with the missing ones.

The girl's mother - who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her

daughter from retaliation - said she received a note from the school stating

that students who did not bring a " healthy lunch " would be offered the missing

portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25.

" I don't feel that I should pay for a cafeteria lunch when I provide lunch for

her from home, " the mother wrote in a complaint to her state representative,

Republican G.L. Pridgen of Robeson County.

The girl's grandmother, who sometimes helps pack her lunch, told Carolina

Journal that she is a petite, picky 4-year-old who eats white whole wheat bread

and is not big on vegetables.

" What got me so mad is, number one, don't tell my kid I'm not packing her lunch

box properly, " the girl's mother told CJ. " I pack her lunchbox according to what

she eats. It always consists of a fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She

eats vegetables at home because I have to watch her because she doesn't really

care for vegetables. "

When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what

she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered.

Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

" She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed, because she chose to eat

the nuggets on the lunch tray, because they put it in front of her, " her mother

said. " You're telling a 4-year-old. 'oh. you're lunch isn't right,' and she's

thinking there's something wrong with her food. "

While the mother and grandmother thought the potato chips and lack of vegetable

were what disqualified the lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child

Development said that should not have been a problem.

" With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein, your grain, and if it had

cheese on it, that's the dairy, " said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and statutory

policy manager for the division. " It sounds like the lunch itself would've met

all of the standard. " The lunch has to include a fruit or vegetable, but not

both, she said.

There are no clear restrictions about what additional items - like potato chips

- can be included in preschoolers' lunch boxes.

" If a parent sends their child with a Coke and a Twinkie, the child care

provider is going to need to provide a balanced lunch for the child, "

Kozlowski said.

Ultimately, the child care provider can't take the Coke and Twinkie away from

the child, but Kozlowski said she " would think the Pre-K provider would talk

with the parent about that not being a healthy choice for their child. "

It is unclear whether the school was allowed to charge for the cafeteria lunches

they gave to every preschooler in the class that day.

The state regulation reads:

" Sites must provide breakfast and/or snacks and lunch meeting USDA requirements

during the regular school day. The partial/full cost of meals may be charged

when families do not qualify for free/reduced price meals.

" When children bring their own food for meals and snacks to the center, if the

food does not meet the specified nutritional requirements, the center must

provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. "

Still, Kozlowski said, the parents shouldn't have been charged.

" The school may have interpreted [the rule] to mean they felt like the lunch

wasn't meeting the nutritional requirements and so they wanted the child to have

the school lunch and then charged the parent, " she said.

" It sounds like maybe a technical assistance need for that school. "

The school principal, Jackie s, said he didn't " know anything about "

parents being charged for the meals that day. " I know they eat in the cafeteria.

Whether they pay or not, they eat in the cafeteria. "

Pridgen's office is looking into the issue.

Sara Burrows is an associate editor of Carolina Journal.

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/homemade-lunch-replaced-with-cafeteria\

-nuggets.html

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To: rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>

Subject: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria

" Nuggets "

I truly hope this family files charges against this person for:

1. Harrassment

2. Theft of private property

This is just so wrong - and great points Mavis. What IF this had been a

gluten free sandwich for a young girl with celiac disease?

Jan Patenaude, RD, CLT

Director of Medical Nutrition

Signet Diagnostic Corp.

Telecommuting Nationwide

(Mountain Time)

Fax:

DineRight4@...<mailto:DineRight4%40aol.com><mailto:DineRight4%40aol.com>

Certified LEAP Therapist and specialist in food sensitivity for IBS,

migraine, fibromyalgia and multiple inflammatory conditions. Co-author of the

Certified LEAP Therapist (CLT) Training Course.

Your email is important to me. If you send me an important email, and I

don't respond in 2 business days, PLEASE give me a call. Some weeks, I get

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Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:26 am (PST)

I would be livid. Why is any employee allowed to go through children's

lunch boxes? This one is obviously clueless. What happens when an " approved "

school lunch is used to replace a lunch for a child with allergies or

special food requirements or restrictions? If employees can't tell when a lunch

meets the requirements, how can they be expected to understand something

like a gluten free diet?

February 17, 2012

My question is....what required food component the state employee find lacking

in this lunch? It appears to me that the protein component was met given the

turkey and cheese in the sandwich. I also feel, in review of the lunch the

parent packed, that all components were met. If someone put chicken nuggets in

front of my child I would have a huge issue with it...... just my 2 cents.....

Cece

---- Original message ----

>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:52:07 +0000

>From: rd-usa (on behalf of " Rowell, " )

>Subject: RE: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria

" Nuggets "

>To: " 'rd-usa ' " <rd-usa >

>

> No one has the " right " to invade a family's privacy

> by inspecting a child's lunch box and telling that

> child his/her mother doesn't feed them right,

> particularly the government! From what I am hearing,

> the people of this state are outraged, as they

> should be.

>

> W. Rowell, RD, LN, CLT

> Montana State Hospital

> Long Term Care Consultant

> InfoSites:

> www.elk-hunting-tips.net<http://www.elk-hunting-tips.net>

>

www.benefits-of-massage-therapy.com<http://www.benefits-of-massage-therapy.com>

>

> From: rd-usa

> [mailto:rd-usa ] On Behalf Of

> Green

> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:44 AM

> To: 'rd-usa '

> Subject: RE: Re: Preschooler's Homemade

> Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria " Nuggets "

>

> According to the article I read the school is a

> pre-K school or head start type program and under

> law had the right to look intot the lunch. They

> didn't take away the girls packed lunch they just

> gave her a school lunch too and she chose to eat

> only the chicken nuggets. The school is being

> investigated and the parent found out because the

> child brought home her untouched packed lunch. Here

> is the article I read:

>

> Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria

> " Nuggets "

>

> State agent inspects sack lunches, forces

> preschoolers to purchase cafeteria food instead By

> Sara Burrows

>

> Feb. 14th, 2012

>

> More |

>

> RAEFORD - A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary

> School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30

> because a state employee told her the lunch her

> mother packed was not nutritious.

>

> The girl's turkey and cheese sandwich, banana,

> potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S.

> Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to

> the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting

> all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that

> day.

>

> The Division of Child Development and Early

> Education at the Department of Health and Human

> Services requires all lunches served in

> pre-kindergarten programs - including in-home day

> care centers - to meet USDA guidelines. That means

> lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one

> serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two

> servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches

> are brought from home.

>

> When home-packed lunches do not include all of the

> required items, child care providers must supplement

> them with the missing ones.

>

> The girl's mother - who said she wishes to remain

> anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation -

> said she received a note from the school stating

> that students who did not bring a " healthy lunch "

> would be offered the missing portions, which could

> result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case

> $1.25.

>

> " I don't feel that I should pay for a cafeteria

> lunch when I provide lunch for her from home, " the

> mother wrote in a complaint to her state

> representative, Republican G.L. Pridgen of Robeson

> County.

>

> The girl's grandmother, who sometimes helps pack her

> lunch, told Carolina Journal that she is a petite,

> picky 4-year-old who eats white whole wheat bread

> and is not big on vegetables.

>

> " What got me so mad is, number one, don't tell my

> kid I'm not packing her lunch box properly, " the

> girl's mother told CJ. " I pack her lunchbox

> according to what she eats. It always consists of a

> fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats

> vegetables at home because I have to watch her

> because she doesn't really care for vegetables. "

>

> When the girl came home with her lunch untouched,

> her mother wanted to know what she ate instead.

> Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered.

>

> Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

>

> " She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed,

> because she chose to eat the nuggets on the lunch

> tray, because they put it in front of her, " her

> mother said. " You're telling a 4-year-old. 'oh.

> you're lunch isn't right,' and she's thinking

> there's something wrong with her food. "

>

> While the mother and grandmother thought the potato

> chips and lack of vegetable were what disqualified

> the lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child

> Development said that should not have been a

> problem.

>

> " With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein,

> your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that's the

> dairy, " said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and

> statutory policy manager for the division. " It

> sounds like the lunch itself would've met all of the

> standard. " The lunch has to include a fruit or

> vegetable, but not both, she said.

>

> There are no clear restrictions about what

> additional items - like potato chips - can be

> included in preschoolers' lunch boxes.

>

> " If a parent sends their child with a Coke and a

> Twinkie, the child care provider is going to need to

> provide a balanced lunch for the child, "

>

> Kozlowski said.

>

> Ultimately, the child care provider can't take the

> Coke and Twinkie away from the child, but Kozlowski

> said she " would think the Pre-K provider would talk

> with the parent about that not being a healthy

> choice for their child. "

>

> It is unclear whether the school was allowed to

> charge for the cafeteria lunches they gave to every

> preschooler in the class that day.

>

> The state regulation reads:

>

> " Sites must provide breakfast and/or snacks and

> lunch meeting USDA requirements during the regular

> school day. The partial/full cost of meals may be

> charged when families do not qualify for

> free/reduced price meals.

>

> " When children bring their own food for meals and

> snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the

> specified nutritional requirements, the center must

> provide additional food necessary to meet those

> requirements. "

>

> Still, Kozlowski said, the parents shouldn't have

> been charged.

>

> " The school may have interpreted [the rule] to mean

> they felt like the lunch wasn't meeting the

> nutritional requirements and so they wanted the

> child to have the school lunch and then charged the

> parent, " she said.

>

> " It sounds like maybe a technical assistance need

> for that school. "

>

> The school principal, Jackie s, said he didn't

> " know anything about " parents being charged for the

> meals that day. " I know they eat in the cafeteria.

> Whether they pay or not, they eat in the cafeteria. "

>

> Pridgen's office is looking into the issue.

>

> Sara Burrows is an associate editor of Carolina

> Journal.

>

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/homemade-lunch-replaced-with-cafeteria\

-nuggets.html

>

> From:

> rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>

> [mailto:rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>]

> On Behalf Of

> Dineright4@...<mailto:Dineright4%40aol.com>

> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 6:29 AM

> To:

> rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>

> Subject: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch

> Replaced wiht Cafeteria " Nuggets "

>

> I truly hope this family files charges against this

> person for:

>

> 1. Harrassment

> 2. Theft of private property

>

> This is just so wrong - and great points Mavis. What

> IF this had been a

> gluten free sandwich for a young girl with celiac

> disease?

>

> Jan Patenaude, RD, CLT

> Director of Medical Nutrition

> Signet Diagnostic Corp.

> Telecommuting Nationwide

> (Mountain Time)

> Fax:

> DineRight4@...<mailto:DineRight4%40aol.com><mailto:DineRight4%40aol.com>

>

> Certified LEAP Therapist and specialist in food

> sensitivity for IBS,

> migraine, fibromyalgia and multiple inflammatory

> conditions. Co-author of the

> Certified LEAP Therapist (CLT) Training Course.

>

> Your email is important to me. If you send me an

> important email, and I

> don't respond in 2 business days, PLEASE give me a

> call. Some weeks, I get

> buried in email and I do not mean to ignore your

> email!

>

> In a message dated 2/17/2012 6:16:20 A.M. Mountain

> Standard Time,

>

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>

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> Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:26 am (PST)

>

> I would be livid. Why is any employee allowed to go

> through children's

> lunch boxes? This one is obviously clueless. What

> happens when an " approved "

> school lunch is used to replace a lunch for a child

> with allergies or

> special food requirements or restrictions? If

> employees can't tell when a lunch

> meets the requirements, how can they be expected to

> understand something

> like a gluten free diet?

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

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My question is....what required food component the state employee find lacking

in this lunch? It appears to me that the protein component was met given the

turkey and cheese in the sandwich. I also feel, in review of the lunch the

parent packed, that all components were met. If someone put chicken nuggets in

front of my child I would have a huge issue with it...... just my 2 cents.....

Cece

---- Original message ----

>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:52:07 +0000

>From: rd-usa (on behalf of " Rowell, " )

>Subject: RE: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria

" Nuggets "

>To: " 'rd-usa ' " <rd-usa >

>

> No one has the " right " to invade a family's privacy

> by inspecting a child's lunch box and telling that

> child his/her mother doesn't feed them right,

> particularly the government! From what I am hearing,

> the people of this state are outraged, as they

> should be.

>

> W. Rowell, RD, LN, CLT

> Montana State Hospital

> Long Term Care Consultant

> InfoSites:

> www.elk-hunting-tips.net<http://www.elk-hunting-tips.net>

>

www.benefits-of-massage-therapy.com<http://www.benefits-of-massage-therapy.com>

>

> From: rd-usa

> [mailto:rd-usa ] On Behalf Of

> Green

> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:44 AM

> To: 'rd-usa '

> Subject: RE: Re: Preschooler's Homemade

> Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria " Nuggets "

>

> According to the article I read the school is a

> pre-K school or head start type program and under

> law had the right to look intot the lunch. They

> didn't take away the girls packed lunch they just

> gave her a school lunch too and she chose to eat

> only the chicken nuggets. The school is being

> investigated and the parent found out because the

> child brought home her untouched packed lunch. Here

> is the article I read:

>

> Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria

> " Nuggets "

>

> State agent inspects sack lunches, forces

> preschoolers to purchase cafeteria food instead By

> Sara Burrows

>

> Feb. 14th, 2012

>

> More |

>

> RAEFORD - A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary

> School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30

> because a state employee told her the lunch her

> mother packed was not nutritious.

>

> The girl's turkey and cheese sandwich, banana,

> potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S.

> Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to

> the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting

> all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that

> day.

>

> The Division of Child Development and Early

> Education at the Department of Health and Human

> Services requires all lunches served in

> pre-kindergarten programs - including in-home day

> care centers - to meet USDA guidelines. That means

> lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one

> serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two

> servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches

> are brought from home.

>

> When home-packed lunches do not include all of the

> required items, child care providers must supplement

> them with the missing ones.

>

> The girl's mother - who said she wishes to remain

> anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation -

> said she received a note from the school stating

> that students who did not bring a " healthy lunch "

> would be offered the missing portions, which could

> result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case

> $1.25.

>

> " I don't feel that I should pay for a cafeteria

> lunch when I provide lunch for her from home, " the

> mother wrote in a complaint to her state

> representative, Republican G.L. Pridgen of Robeson

> County.

>

> The girl's grandmother, who sometimes helps pack her

> lunch, told Carolina Journal that she is a petite,

> picky 4-year-old who eats white whole wheat bread

> and is not big on vegetables.

>

> " What got me so mad is, number one, don't tell my

> kid I'm not packing her lunch box properly, " the

> girl's mother told CJ. " I pack her lunchbox

> according to what she eats. It always consists of a

> fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats

> vegetables at home because I have to watch her

> because she doesn't really care for vegetables. "

>

> When the girl came home with her lunch untouched,

> her mother wanted to know what she ate instead.

> Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered.

>

> Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

>

> " She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed,

> because she chose to eat the nuggets on the lunch

> tray, because they put it in front of her, " her

> mother said. " You're telling a 4-year-old. 'oh.

> you're lunch isn't right,' and she's thinking

> there's something wrong with her food. "

>

> While the mother and grandmother thought the potato

> chips and lack of vegetable were what disqualified

> the lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child

> Development said that should not have been a

> problem.

>

> " With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein,

> your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that's the

> dairy, " said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and

> statutory policy manager for the division. " It

> sounds like the lunch itself would've met all of the

> standard. " The lunch has to include a fruit or

> vegetable, but not both, she said.

>

> There are no clear restrictions about what

> additional items - like potato chips - can be

> included in preschoolers' lunch boxes.

>

> " If a parent sends their child with a Coke and a

> Twinkie, the child care provider is going to need to

> provide a balanced lunch for the child, "

>

> Kozlowski said.

>

> Ultimately, the child care provider can't take the

> Coke and Twinkie away from the child, but Kozlowski

> said she " would think the Pre-K provider would talk

> with the parent about that not being a healthy

> choice for their child. "

>

> It is unclear whether the school was allowed to

> charge for the cafeteria lunches they gave to every

> preschooler in the class that day.

>

> The state regulation reads:

>

> " Sites must provide breakfast and/or snacks and

> lunch meeting USDA requirements during the regular

> school day. The partial/full cost of meals may be

> charged when families do not qualify for

> free/reduced price meals.

>

> " When children bring their own food for meals and

> snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the

> specified nutritional requirements, the center must

> provide additional food necessary to meet those

> requirements. "

>

> Still, Kozlowski said, the parents shouldn't have

> been charged.

>

> " The school may have interpreted [the rule] to mean

> they felt like the lunch wasn't meeting the

> nutritional requirements and so they wanted the

> child to have the school lunch and then charged the

> parent, " she said.

>

> " It sounds like maybe a technical assistance need

> for that school. "

>

> The school principal, Jackie s, said he didn't

> " know anything about " parents being charged for the

> meals that day. " I know they eat in the cafeteria.

> Whether they pay or not, they eat in the cafeteria. "

>

> Pridgen's office is looking into the issue.

>

> Sara Burrows is an associate editor of Carolina

> Journal.

>

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/homemade-lunch-replaced-with-cafeteria\

-nuggets.html

>

> From:

> rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>

> [mailto:rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>]

> On Behalf Of

> Dineright4@...<mailto:Dineright4%40aol.com>

> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 6:29 AM

> To:

> rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>

> Subject: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch

> Replaced wiht Cafeteria " Nuggets "

>

> I truly hope this family files charges against this

> person for:

>

> 1. Harrassment

> 2. Theft of private property

>

> This is just so wrong - and great points Mavis. What

> IF this had been a

> gluten free sandwich for a young girl with celiac

> disease?

>

> Jan Patenaude, RD, CLT

> Director of Medical Nutrition

> Signet Diagnostic Corp.

> Telecommuting Nationwide

> (Mountain Time)

> Fax:

> DineRight4@...<mailto:DineRight4%40aol.com><mailto:DineRight4%40aol.com>

>

> Certified LEAP Therapist and specialist in food

> sensitivity for IBS,

> migraine, fibromyalgia and multiple inflammatory

> conditions. Co-author of the

> Certified LEAP Therapist (CLT) Training Course.

>

> Your email is important to me. If you send me an

> important email, and I

> don't respond in 2 business days, PLEASE give me a

> call. Some weeks, I get

> buried in email and I do not mean to ignore your

> email!

>

> In a message dated 2/17/2012 6:16:20 A.M. Mountain

> Standard Time,

>

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ups.com>

> writes:

>

> _Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with

> Cafeteria " Nuggets " _

>

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)

> _mimco_2000 _ (http://profiles.yahoo.com/mimco_2000)

> Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:26 am (PST)

>

> I would be livid. Why is any employee allowed to go

> through children's

> lunch boxes? This one is obviously clueless. What

> happens when an " approved "

> school lunch is used to replace a lunch for a child

> with allergies or

> special food requirements or restrictions? If

> employees can't tell when a lunch

> meets the requirements, how can they be expected to

> understand something

> like a gluten free diet?

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

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February 17, 2012

According to the original story - the lunch was missing a vegetable. The parent

stated her child does not eat vegetables in her school lunch but does get them

at home.

Â

Regardless, this is way overstepping the boundaries and the intent of the

regulation; I'm sure after all this negative publicity that the district will be

rethinking it's policy/procedure and have gotten the appropriate slap on the

wrist.

Â

Holly

----------

Holly Lee Brewer, MS RD

Pediatric Dietitian, Diabetes Educator

Medical Nutrition Therapist, Las Vegas, NV

Maj Holly Brewer, USAFR BSC

301st MDS, NAS JRB Fort Worth (Carswell), TX

http://hollyinbalad.blogspot.com

>To: rd-usa

>Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 8:57 AM

>Subject: RE: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria

" Nuggets "

>

>Â

>My question is....what required food component the state employee find lacking

in this lunch? It appears to me that the protein component was met given the

turkey and cheese in the sandwich. I also feel, in review of the lunch the

parent packed, that all components were met. If someone put chicken nuggets in

front of my child I would have a huge issue with it...... just my 2 cents.....

>

>Cece

>

>---- Original message ----

>>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:52:07 +0000

>>From: rd-usa (on behalf of " Rowell, " )

>>Subject: RE: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria

" Nuggets "

>>To: " 'rd-usa ' " <rd-usa >

>>

>> No one has the " right " to invade a family's privacy

>> by inspecting a child's lunch box and telling that

>> child his/her mother doesn't feed them right,

>> particularly the government! From what I am hearing,

>> the people of this state are outraged, as they

>> should be.

>>

>> W. Rowell, RD, LN, CLT

>> Montana State Hospital

>> Long Term Care Consultant

>> InfoSites:

>> www.elk-hunting-tips.net<http://www.elk-hunting-tips.net>

>>

www.benefits-of-massage-therapy.com<http://www.benefits-of-massage-therapy.com>

>>

>> From: rd-usa

>> [mailto:rd-usa ] On Behalf Of

>> Green

>> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:44 AM

>> To: 'rd-usa '

>> Subject: RE: Re: Preschooler's Homemade

>> Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria " Nuggets "

>>

>> According to the article I read the school is a

>> pre-K school or head start type program and under

>> law had the right to look intot the lunch. They

>> didn't take away the girls packed lunch they just

>> gave her a school lunch too and she chose to eat

>> only the chicken nuggets. The school is being

>> investigated and the parent found out because the

>> child brought home her untouched packed lunch. Here

>> is the article I read:

>>

>> Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria

>> " Nuggets "

>>

>> State agent inspects sack lunches, forces

>> preschoolers to purchase cafeteria food instead By

>> Sara Burrows

>>

>> Feb. 14th, 2012

>>

>> More |

>>

>> RAEFORD - A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary

>> School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30

>> because a state employee told her the lunch her

>> mother packed was not nutritious.

>>

>> The girl's turkey and cheese sandwich, banana,

>> potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S.

>> Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to

>> the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting

>> all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that

>> day.

>>

>> The Division of Child Development and Early

>> Education at the Department of Health and Human

>> Services requires all lunches served in

>> pre-kindergarten programs - including in-home day

>> care centers - to meet USDA guidelines. That means

>> lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one

>> serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two

>> servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches

>> are brought from home.

>>

>> When home-packed lunches do not include all of the

>> required items, child care providers must supplement

>> them with the missing ones.

>>

>> The girl's mother - who said she wishes to remain

>> anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation -

>> said she received a note from the school stating

>> that students who did not bring a " healthy lunch "

>> would be offered the missing portions, which could

>> result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case

>> $1.25.

>>

>> " I don't feel that I should pay for a cafeteria

>> lunch when I provide lunch for her from home, " the

>> mother wrote in a complaint to her state

>> representative, Republican G.L. Pridgen of Robeson

>> County.

>>

>> The girl's grandmother, who sometimes helps pack her

>> lunch, told Carolina Journal that she is a petite,

>> picky 4-year-old who eats white whole wheat bread

>> and is not big on vegetables.

>>

>> " What got me so mad is, number one, don't tell my

>> kid I'm not packing her lunch box properly, " the

>> girl's mother told CJ. " I pack her lunchbox

>> according to what she eats. It always consists of a

>> fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats

>> vegetables at home because I have to watch her

>> because she doesn't really care for vegetables. "

>>

>> When the girl came home with her lunch untouched,

>> her mother wanted to know what she ate instead.

>> Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered.

>>

>> Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

>>

>> " She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed,

>> because she chose to eat the nuggets on the lunch

>> tray, because they put it in front of her, " her

>> mother said. " You're telling a 4-year-old. 'oh.

>> you're lunch isn't right,' and she's thinking

>> there's something wrong with her food. "

>>

>> While the mother and grandmother thought the potato

>> chips and lack of vegetable were what disqualified

>> the lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child

>> Development said that should not have been a

>> problem.

>>

>> " With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein,

>> your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that's the

>> dairy, " said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and

>> statutory policy manager for the division. " It

>> sounds like the lunch itself would've met all of the

>> standard. " The lunch has to include a fruit or

>> vegetable, but not both, she said.

>>

>> There are no clear restrictions about what

>> additional items - like potato chips - can be

>> included in preschoolers' lunch boxes.

>>

>> " If a parent sends their child with a Coke and a

>> Twinkie, the child care provider is going to need to

>> provide a balanced lunch for the child, "

>>

>> Kozlowski said.

>>

>> Ultimately, the child care provider can't take the

>> Coke and Twinkie away from the child, but Kozlowski

>> said she " would think the Pre-K provider would talk

>> with the parent about that not being a healthy

>> choice for their child. "

>>

>> It is unclear whether the school was allowed to

>> charge for the cafeteria lunches they gave to every

>> preschooler in the class that day.

>>

>> The state regulation reads:

>>

>> " Sites must provide breakfast and/or snacks and

>> lunch meeting USDA requirements during the regular

>> school day. The partial/full cost of meals may be

>> charged when families do not qualify for

>> free/reduced price meals.

>>

>> " When children bring their own food for meals and

>> snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the

>> specified nutritional requirements, the center must

>> provide additional food necessary to meet those

>> requirements. "

>>

>> Still, Kozlowski said, the parents shouldn't have

>> been charged.

>>

>> " The school may have interpreted [the rule] to mean

>> they felt like the lunch wasn't meeting the

>> nutritional requirements and so they wanted the

>> child to have the school lunch and then charged the

>> parent, " she said.

>>

>> " It sounds like maybe a technical assistance need

>> for that school. "

>>

>> The school principal, Jackie s, said he didn't

>> " know anything about " parents being charged for the

>> meals that day. " I know they eat in the cafeteria.

>> Whether they pay or not, they eat in the cafeteria. "

>>

>> Pridgen's office is looking into the issue.

>>

>> Sara Burrows is an associate editor of Carolina

>> Journal.

>>

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/homemade-lunch-replaced-with-cafeteria\

-nuggets.html

>>

>> From:

>> rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>

>> [mailto:rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>]

>> On Behalf Of

>> Dineright4@...<mailto:Dineright4%40aol.com>

>> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 6:29 AM

>> To:

>> rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>

>> Subject: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch

>> Replaced wiht Cafeteria " Nuggets "

>>

>> I truly hope this family files charges against this

>> person for:

>>

>> 1. Harrassment

>> 2. Theft of private property

>>

>> This is just so wrong - and great points Mavis. What

>> IF this had been a

>> gluten free sandwich for a young girl with celiac

>> disease?

>>

>> Jan Patenaude, RD, CLT

>> Director of Medical Nutrition

>> Signet Diagnostic Corp.

>> Telecommuting Nationwide

>> (Mountain Time)

>> Fax:

>> DineRight4@...<mailto:DineRight4%40aol.com><mailto:DineRight4%40aol.com>

>>

>> Certified LEAP Therapist and specialist in food

>> sensitivity for IBS,

>> migraine, fibromyalgia and multiple inflammatory

>> conditions. Co-author of the

>> Certified LEAP Therapist (CLT) Training Course.

>>

>> Your email is important to me. If you send me an

>> important email, and I

>> don't respond in 2 business days, PLEASE give me a

>> call. Some weeks, I get

>> buried in email and I do not mean to ignore your

>> email!

>>

>> In a message dated 2/17/2012 6:16:20 A.M. Mountain

>> Standard Time,

>>

rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogro\

ups.com>

>> writes:

>>

>> _Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with

>> Cafeteria " Nuggets " _

>>

(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rd-usa/message/28000;_ylc=X3oDMTJzbHZiZDFrBF9TAzk\

3

>> MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEwMDM1NTQ3BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2MTIwOQRtc2dJZAMyODAwMARzZWMD

>> ZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMzI5NDg0NTc3)

>> Posted by: " mimco_2000 "

>> _mimco@...<mailto:_mimco%40cfl.rr.com><mailto:_mimco%40cfl.rr.com>

>> _

>>

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ubject=

>>

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)

>> _mimco_2000 _ (http://profiles.yahoo.com/mimco_2000)

>> Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:26 am (PST)

>>

>> I would be livid. Why is any employee allowed to go

>> through children's

>> lunch boxes? This one is obviously clueless. What

>> happens when an " approved "

>> school lunch is used to replace a lunch for a child

>> with allergies or

>> special food requirements or restrictions? If

>> employees can't tell when a lunch

>> meets the requirements, how can they be expected to

>> understand something

>> like a gluten free diet?

>>

>> [Non-text portions of this message have been

>> removed]

>>

>> **CONFIDENTIALITY & PRIVACY NOTICE**: This message

>> and any included attachments originate from Gerald

>> Champion Regional Medical Center and are for the

>> sole use of the intended recipient(s). This email

>> and any attachments are confidential and may contain

>> privileged or protected patient health information.

>> Unauthorized forwarding, printing, copying,

>> distribution, or use of such information is strictly

>> prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the

>> addressee, please promptly delete this message and

>> notify the sender of the delivery error with a copy

>> to

>> SecurityOfficer@...<mailto:SecurityOfficer%40gcrmc.org>

>> by e-mail or call Gerald Champion Regional Medical

>> Center in Alamogordo, NM at , attention

>> Security Officer.

>>

>> [Non-text portions of this message have been

>> removed]

>>

>> [Non-text portions of this message have been

>> removed]

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February 17, 2012

It wasnâ€™t even that, the parent thinks that is what it was however : â€œ " With

a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein, your grain, and if it had cheese on

it, that's the dairy, " said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and statutory policy

manager for the division. " It sounds like the lunch itself would've met all of

the standard. " The lunch has to include a fruit or vegetable, but not both, she

said.â€ So I think the inspector was just mistaken in her actions. I too

would be pissed off and suing the school however for taking a healthy lunch from

my child and allowing her to eat only chicken nuggets instead. I mean really??

From: rd-usa [mailto:rd-usa ] On Behalf Of hl

brewer

Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 11:24 AM

To: rd-usa

Subject: Re: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria

" Nuggets "

According to the original story - the lunch was missing a vegetable. The parent

stated her child does not eat vegetables in her school lunch but does get them

at home.

Regardless, this is way overstepping the boundaries and the intent of the

regulation; I'm sure after all this negative publicity that the district will be

rethinking it's policy/procedure and have gotten the appropriate slap on the

wrist.

Holly

----------

Holly Lee Brewer, MS RD

Pediatric Dietitian, Diabetes Educator

Medical Nutrition Therapist, Las Vegas, NV

Maj Holly Brewer, USAFR BSC

301st MDS, NAS JRB Fort Worth (Carswell), TX

http://hollyinbalad.blogspot.com

From: Cece Ohmart

<cohmart@...<mailto:cohmart%40mainehospital.org>>

>To: rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>

>Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 8:57 AM

>Subject: RE: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria

" Nuggets "

>

>My question is....what required food component the state employee find lacking

in this lunch? It appears to me that the protein component was met given the

turkey and cheese in the sandwich. I also feel, in review of the lunch the

parent packed, that all components were met. If someone put chicken nuggets in

front of my child I would have a huge issue with it...... just my 2 cents.....

>

>Cece

>

>---- Original message ----

>>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:52:07 +0000

>>From: rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com> (on behalf of

" Rowell, " <drowell@...<mailto:drowell%40mt.gov>>)

>>Subject: RE: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria

" Nuggets "

>>To: " 'rd-usa <mailto:%27rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>' "

<rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>>

>>

>> No one has the " right " to invade a family's privacy

>> by inspecting a child's lunch box and telling that

>> child his/her mother doesn't feed them right,

>> particularly the government! From what I am hearing,

>> the people of this state are outraged, as they

>> should be.

>>

>> W. Rowell, RD, LN, CLT

>> Montana State Hospital

>> Long Term Care Consultant

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>> From: rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>

>> [mailto:rd-usa <mailto:rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of

>> Green

>> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:44 AM

>> To: 'rd-usa <mailto:%27rd-usa%40yahoogroups.com>'

>> Subject: RE: Re: Preschooler's Homemade

>> Lunch Replaced wiht Cafeteria " Nuggets "

>>

>> According to the article I read the school is a

>> pre-K school or head start type program and under

>> law had the right to look intot the lunch. They

>> didn't take away the girls packed lunch they just

>> gave her a school lunch too and she chose to eat

>> only the chicken nuggets. The school is being

>> investigated and the parent found out because the

>> child brought home her untouched packed lunch. Here

>> is the article I read:

>>

>> Preschooler's Homemade Lunch Replaced with Cafeteria

>> " Nuggets "

>>

>> State agent inspects sack lunches, forces

>> preschoolers to purchase cafeteria food instead By

>> Sara Burrows

>>

>> Feb. 14th, 2012

>>

>> More |

>>

>> RAEFORD - A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary

>> School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30

>> because a state employee told her the lunch her

>> mother packed was not nutritious.

>>

>> The girl's turkey and cheese sandwich, banana,

>> potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S.

>> Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to

>> the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting

>> all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that

>> day.

>>

>> The Division of Child Development and Early

>> Education at the Department of Health and Human

>> Services requires all lunches served in

>> pre-kindergarten programs - including in-home day

>> care centers - to meet USDA guidelines. That means

>> lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one

>> serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two

>> servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches

>> are brought from home.

>>

>> When home-packed lunches do not include all of the

>> required items, child care providers must supplement

>> them with the missing ones.

>>

>> The girl's mother - who said she wishes to remain

>> anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation -

>> said she received a note from the school stating

>> that students who did not bring a " healthy lunch "

>> would be offered the missing portions, which could

>> result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case

>> $1.25.

>>

>> " I don't feel that I should pay for a cafeteria

>> lunch when I provide lunch for her from home, " the

>> mother wrote in a complaint to her state

>> representative, Republican G.L. Pridgen of Robeson

>> County.

>>

>> The girl's grandmother, who sometimes helps pack her

>> lunch, told Carolina Journal that she is a petite,

>> picky 4-year-old who eats white whole wheat bread

>> and is not big on vegetables.

>>

>> " What got me so mad is, number one, don't tell my

>> kid I'm not packing her lunch box properly, " the

>> girl's mother told CJ. " I pack her lunchbox

>> according to what she eats. It always consists of a

>> fruit. It never consists of a vegetable. She eats

>> vegetables at home because I have to watch her

>> because she doesn't really care for vegetables. "

>>

>> When the girl came home with her lunch untouched,

>> her mother wanted to know what she ate instead.

>> Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered.

>>

>> Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.

>>

>> " She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed,

>> because she chose to eat the nuggets on the lunch

>> tray, because they put it in front of her, " her

>> mother said. " You're telling a 4-year-old. 'oh.

>> you're lunch isn't right,' and she's thinking

>> there's something wrong with her food. "

>>

>> While the mother and grandmother thought the potato

>> chips and lack of vegetable were what disqualified

>> the lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child

>> Development said that should not have been a

>> problem.

>>

>> " With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein,

>> your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that's the

>> dairy, " said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and

>> statutory policy manager for the division. " It

>> sounds like the lunch itself would've met all of the

>> standard. " The lunch has to include a fruit or

>> vegetable, but not both, she said.

>>

>> There are no clear restrictions about what

>> additional items - like potato chips - can be

>> included in preschoolers' lunch boxes.

>>

>> " If a parent sends their child with a Coke and a

>> Twinkie, the child care provider is going to need to

>> provide a balanced lunch for the child, "

>>

>> Kozlowski said.

>>

>> Ultimately, the child care provider can't take the

>> Coke and Twinkie away from the child, but Kozlowski

>> said she " would think the Pre-K provider would talk

>> with the parent about that not being a healthy

>> choice for their child. "

>>

>> It is unclear whether the school was allowed to

>> charge for the cafeteria lunches they gave to every

>> preschooler in the class that day.

>>

>> The state regulation reads:

>>

>> " Sites must provide breakfast and/or snacks and

>> lunch meeting USDA requirements during the regular

>> school day. The partial/full cost of meals may be

>> charged when families do not qualify for

>> free/reduced price meals.

>>

>> " When children bring their own food for meals and

>> snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the

>> specified nutritional requirements, the center must

>> provide additional food necessary to meet those

>> requirements. "

>>

>> Still, Kozlowski said, the parents shouldn't have

>> been charged.

>>

>> " The school may have interpreted [the rule] to mean

>> they felt like the lunch wasn't meeting the

>> nutritional requirements and so they wanted the

>> child to have the school lunch and then charged the

>> parent, " she said.

>>

>> " It sounds like maybe a technical assistance need

>> for that school. "

>>

>> The school principal, Jackie s, said he didn't

>> " know anything about " parents being charged for the

>> meals that day. " I know they eat in the cafeteria.

>> Whether they pay or not, they eat in the cafeteria. "

>>

>> Pridgen's office is looking into the issue.

>>

>> Sara Burrows is an associate editor of Carolina

>> Journal.

>>

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/homemade-lunch-replaced-with-cafeteria\

-nuggets.html

>>

>> From:

>>

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>>

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>> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 6:29 AM

>> To:

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>> Subject: Re: Preschooler's Homemade Lunch

>> Replaced wiht Cafeteria " Nuggets "

>>

>> I truly hope this family files charges against this

>> person for:

>>

>> 1. Harrassment

>> 2. Theft of private property

>>

>> This is just so wrong - and great points Mavis. What

>> IF this had been a

>> gluten free sandwich for a young girl with celiac

>> disease?

>>

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>> Director of Medical Nutrition

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>> In a message dated 2/17/2012 6:16:20 A.M. Mountain

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>>

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>> Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:26 am (PST)

>>

>> I would be livid. Why is any employee allowed to go

>> through children's

>> lunch boxes? This one is obviously clueless. What

>> happens when an " approved "

>> school lunch is used to replace a lunch for a child

>> with allergies or

>> special food requirements or restrictions? If

>> employees can't tell when a lunch

>> meets the requirements, how can they be expected to

>> understand something

>> like a gluten free diet?

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