Government Education Sells Fat
So, what’s the job of the “public” education system?
It’s very simple: We have to pay our bills.
There you have it. The school system exists to make money, and they’re proud of it. No, I’m not saying that they shouldn’t pay their bills, but I do question a system that claims to be “fighting” childhood obesity while at the same time they’re making a profit from selling “unhealthy” foods.
Of course there is a very simple solution — get government out of the way. Give people choices. And stop punishing success and rewarding failure with government. You see, the federal government requires that public education places provide a minimum number of calories. And health food often doesn’t meet that minimum requirement. Enter the fat. Fat provides lots of calories so that utterly useless federal guidelines are met. Then people complain about kids being fat and get government to create another program to attempt to solve the government-created problem.
Government is creating all of these problems. They’re creating the problem related to fat kids. They’re creating the problem relating to cafeterias providing only certain types of food. And they’re creating the problem that cafeterias cannot pay their bills. More government is NOT the answer, less is. How about a start: get government completely and totally out of the food business. Oh, and the education business. What ever happened to doing away with the federal department of education? They serve no purpose (other than to spend more money).
Imagine what would happen if the government didn’t provide lunches. Imagine no government requirements. Imagine no taxpayer-provided “free or reduced lunches.” Imagine people having a choice. Picture the cafeteria like the food court at the mall. Wow, freedom is awesome, isn’t it? And no, people wouldn’t starve. It you think they would, you’re either not very bright or you just want big government. Big government is the enemy of freedom — and the public school system is one of the worst offenders.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Possibly similar posts - CMS: Punish the Responsible - Food Prices - Socialists DEMAND MORE for nothing - Freedom? Not in America. - Truth vs. Education
I agree that government can’t run schools very effectively. Here’s the example of one of the major things that’s wrong.
Let’s imagine two schools going to the state legislature to ask them for more money.
School 1 says, “Things are great. Test scores up. We’re more efficienct and we’d like some more money to add more programs.”
School 2 says, “We’re in crisis. Scores are down. Violence is up. We’d like some more money or we’re in big trouble.”
I think the answer is obvious. Government rewards crisis and wants to deal with problems rather than building on something that’s working. When was the last time you heard a politician say things are great! Will never happen because it they say that they can’t justify what they’re doing.
I think the work Bill Gates is doing is interesting. We need innovation, creativity and competition. That’s not the business of government. That’s the business of entrepreneurs.
Most certainly we need competition! But that is the opposite of government and there is an army of bureaucrats, politicians, and special interest groups that now make a living dealing with the calamity of the public school system — and they will all strongly oppose any competition — because they would lose if they had to compete!
I think there is something to government schools only knowing how to respond to and reward crisis. You see it over and over again. A school is failing and they pump money in that helps continue the path to failure and doesn’t fix anything. What would politicians do if they didn’t have to ability to sell themselves as “problem solvers” anyway?
When I started elementary school, I attended a township school. We had an older farm wife who served as the school cook and our “hot meals” were fantastic. She even made “homemade ketchup” that was out of this world! If there were students who could not afford to buy lunch, they were allowed to help serve meals, clean up in the kitchen during recess or stay after and help with prepping for the next day and then the principal would take them home, all in trade for lunch! They learned to “work their way through adversity” and maintained self-esteem in the process instead of learning “entitlement”. Nowadays, you just give kids a “government handout” so they get used to someone else solving their problems for them. It makes them dependant at a young age and certainly doesn’t raise the bar on self-actualization or expectations does it?
And of course, there is the irresponsibility of parents too.
When my sister started teaching she taught Special Ed for her first five years. Students in her class were mostly there because of “environmental retardation” rather than anything they were born with, and many times they came to school talking about Daddy getting drunk on the weekend but not having money for lunch. It was incredibly sad and disheartening.
Work for food? And you’d force CHILDREN to work for food? You are, in the eyes of nearly all government bureaucrats (that’s government employees) everywhere, completely and totally evil.
I may have to change my name to Evilyn… braaaahahaha!!!!
That thinking worked for my parents and grandparents, I wonder if they knew they were evil??? LOL!!! That is why you don’t see many kids with a good work ethic these days.
They go to government schools to be trained on entitlements instead of learning responsibility and accountability.
It’s honestly part of the government system. The government has to prevent children from working because they might become responsible and not dependent on government!
Ogre check out this:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=022805D
And this:
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/
Both excellent reads and the blogger site is one we all should bookmark.
Oh and this too:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=040804F
It’s darn scary the lengths some people will go to in order to control others. Very scary. Thanks for the links.