Last month, at a Raeford, N.C., elementary school, a teacher confiscated the lunch of a 5-year-old girl because it didn't meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines and therefore was deemed nonnutritious. She replaced it with school cafeteria chicken nuggets. The girl's home-prepared lunch was nutritious; it consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, potato chips, a banana and apple juice. But whether her lunch was nutritious or not is not the issue. The issue is governmental usurpation of parental authority.
In a number of states, pregnant teenage girls may be given abortions without the notification or the permission of parents. The issue is neither abortion nor whether a pregnant teenager should have an abortion. The issue is this: What gives the government the authority to usurp parental authority?
Part of the problem is that people who act as instruments of government do not pay a personal price for usurping parental authority. The reason is Americans, unlike Americans of yesteryear, have become timid and, as such, come to accept all manner of intrusive governmental acts. Can you imagine what a rugged American, such as one portrayed by John Wayne, would have done to a government tyrant who confiscated his daughter's lunch or facilitated her abortion without his permission?
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I would press charges. Call the police and if they refused to do it, go directly to the commissioner and file for charges. This is a out of control government employee. Besides that lunch was excellent compared to what some kids have to eat. Those chicken nuggets most likely had chemicals like hormones in them that are causing who knows what damage to our children.
ReplyDeleteI know that there are a lot of parents out there that do not deserve to be parents BUT I believe the government has no right to step in and tell me or any other parent what is best for our children. The law should step in where physical and sexual abuse is involved. Other than that the government needs to keep their noses out of it. Now I'm going back under my rock. Thank You
ReplyDeleteRe: 0935--please don't go back under your rock. You seem to realize the dangers inherent when the federal government oversteps its bounds!
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