Another Hoke County family says school is telling their child what to eat

(Previous posts about this topic have relied on the libertarian Carolina Journal so here's another story not from a conservative site rather Raleigh's NBC station WNCN.)

Just last week, the West Hoke Elementary School made national headlines when a kindergartner was sent to the cafeteria to eat a school meal because it was claimed her homemade lunch didn't meet nutritional guidelines.

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On Jan. 31, someone at West Hoke Elementary sent 4-yr-old Jazlyn Zambrano to the cafeteria to eat school food saying her homemade lunch of salami, cheese, wheat bun and juice was no good.

“According to them there was something in my lunch that didn’t comply with the four requirements of one meat, one dairy, two servings of fruit or vegetable, and milk,” said Diane Zambrano.

That infuriates Zambrano because she and her husband make an effort to eat healthy all the time, making sure little Jazlyn drinks only milk, water and juice and doesn’t consume junk food.

“We don’t give her sweets or candy,” said Zambrano.

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In a written statement officials said school staffers have been retrained and appropriate personnel action has been taken to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

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The letter sent home with Jazlyn from the school’s principal said the lunches had been replaced to help increase the school’s rating in a program it was participating in called ECER-5.

full: http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2012/feb/22/another-hoke-county-family-says-school-telling-the-ar-1961922/

sadly this kind of story gets blown out of proportion for those already paranoid about 'big government" (such as drinkingwithbob...please click dislike on the video as he relies on his captive, unskeptical online audience to make his version of the story seem legit)

here's a TYT video with a more sensible look at a similar lunch policy at this Chicago primary school



as if it wasn't bad enough with the wingnuts screaming about Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" program and San Francisco banning happy meal TOYS (not the food itself) meant the end of food freedom.

and my theory about hoke is that whichever gov't agency was involved probably had connections with agribusiness. i wish agribusiness was the talking point more than "big government".