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Well I hope the kids can still get french fries. They need french fries and I know they love the french fries. Do you think the price of ketchup has gone up since that is a vegetable? I hope not because what's fries without ketchup? I even remember Dot Kearns talking at a board meeting a thousand years ago about the importance of fries in the diet of our school children.

I was wondering...what's the chance we'll ever see Churaco on the menu? Now that would be really srumptous!

Well I hope the kids can still get french fries. They need french fries and I know they love the french fries. Do you think the price of ketchup has gone up since that is a vegetable? I hope not because what's fries without ketchup? I even remember Dot Kearns talking at a board meeting a thousand years ago about the importance of fries in the diet of our school children.

I was wondering...what's the chance we'll ever see Churaco on the menu? Now that would be really srumptous!

Sorry to be off subject, but in case Morgan is reading the blog today - have you heard if everthing is running smoothly today for first day of school?

thanks

The SAT scores are out. Sad day for Guilford County. Guilford down by 9 points. NC down by 4 points. Mecklenburg up by 5 points. Smith came in at 804 down 41 points. Dudley up 23 points. The Mission Possible did zero for Smith. Guilford County needs help at the Middle and High School level.

I understand peanut butter and jelly was the
meal of the day at our school.

Why are the cafeteria services never prepared for the first day of school??

Our high school students received little kid meals today with a "lunchable box" size bread , a slice of ham and slice of cheese with five peanuts. The incredible shrinking MEAL and ever increasing prices!!! My son's grandfather had to take him something to eat after lunch because he was still hungry...What about kids that are counting on this "meal" that cannot afford to buy any extras? There was not enough calories and nutrition in this meal for a seven year old much less a 200 pound 15 year old football player.

What exactly is the lunch requirement for portion size for high schoolers? I would not give 50 cents for the meal they served today!!

I don't know what you a complaining about.

I drove my taxpayer paid for car over to the Chop House and I expensed my lunch. It was fabulous.

Hello Morgan, Will you be getting hold of the SAT results that Joe Stafford mentioned?

http://www.gcsnc.com/SAT%20Results.htm

follow this link, it was the best I could find.

Why the big push for everyone to take SAT. Many know they don't want to go to college, or they are doing vocational training. Do they need this test?

Get with it,

With the "jacking up the price of state-grown fruits and veggies" that Morgan mentioned, I guess peanut butter and jelly sandwiches will become a staple in the cafeteria diet. Besides, I thought that they banned peanut butter from school lunches a few years ago because some students were allergic to it. Didn't some members of the board make a big stink over it?

Probably the push is on to hold down the calories in kid's meals. There's an epidemic of obesity in this country and unless it's addressed early in life will financially bankrupt this country as a result of our already out of control healthcare costs which will be saddled for future generations to pay.

Please don't be offended by what I have to say, but if you have a 15 year old child whose 200 pds, you better pause and consider the health consequences of your child. Ain't no sports career more important than a vibrant healthy child.

Lord Hear Our Prayers

My 15 year old is not obese. He is 6'4" and 200 lbs of lean muscle and is a linebacker on the varsity football team.

He needs nutritional meals from the cafeteria with adequate calories to meet the needs of high school athletes. Yes I can supplement his meals and often do, but what about the 40 or so athletes which receive free and reduced meals. There is also no way I will pay the high school lunch fee for this meal!! Teachers have stopped and ask me if I know anyway to provide more food for our students during the day because they have hungry students in their classrooms. They have been providing some snacks out of their own pockets , but they are seeing the number of hungry students increase.

A sandwich and 5 "peanuts" .... would not meet the nutritional needs of a 5 year old.

No news in today's N&R on SAT's at local level. It seems that the school system does not want to talk about it so N&R goes along. This is a big story and I guess the N&R will get around to it sometime.

Joe,

Doug Clark over at N&R Off the Record blog has some info on the SAT.

Pretty depressing scores.

Joe,
We are aware of the SAT scores and are following up on it. I was out of the office most of yesterday working on a first day of school story so I didn't have time to follow up on it. Unfortunately, today will also be difficult getting in touch with school officials because they are out visiting schools today. We don't wait for the school system to release test score results (i.e. I started requesting AYP data back in June and was calling about it almost on a weekly basis before preliminary results were released). Just thought you should know.

What's 200 pds?

You don't have to read much further than the first sentence to get the point of the article:

"The price of some North Carolina fruit and vegetables sold under a popular federal school lunch program has nearly doubled since the U.S. Department of Defense hired a Guilford County company to help save money."

Phone rang at 10:20 the night before school started. It was GCS central administration letting me know through a recorded announcement that they were still discussing "safe and nutritional options for student lunches" and that the cafeterias would be offering "balanced cold lunches."

"What did they serve for lunch today?" I asked one of the boys.

"Off-brand lunchables," he replied with a shrug.

"What did you make for yourself?"

"Leftover chicken sandwiches, a powerbar, juice, an apple."

My family is not well off but we have never taken advantage of a reduced lunch rate. I don't care how many studies are commissioned or mandates are handed down or nutritionists are consulted. The meals are not up to my standards. We probably spend a little more on food than the average family but we spend a lot less on recreation and clothes.

Suggestions for those with hungry teenagers (mine are 13, 15, 17) with no nutritionally-based disorders or challenges (diabetes, obesity)...

--protein and fat first thing in the morning (eggs, bacon, sausage for meat eaters, protein shake with flax or cheese and vegetable balls for vegetarians).

--power bars to carry in their pockets for between classes

--dried fruit and nuts is good and portable.

--whole grained dense breads for sandwiches

--fruit, carrot sticks and celery for lunches.

--homemade beef or poultry jerky

--water, water and more water. Staying hydrated prevents symptoms that people mistake for hunger.

Kids are spending more time than ever on buses, they are out of the house nine and ten hours a day. They need to be able to advocate for themselves and being adaqueately fed is a pretty basic survival skill. What do your kids do for themselves? What are their ideas?

I have two kids in school and haven't bought a school lunch in 6 years.

Today our students received off-brand lunchable style box lunches with a turkey bologna sandwich,
a pack of 10 peanuts and a cookie.(balanced??)

So much for fruits and vegetables....and a well-rounded nutritional meal. We have students that do not have any food at home ... believe it or not. They have no one to pack protein bars in their lunch bags or money to buy it themselves.

Guilford county could stop busing students all over the county and save enough to feed them steak!! It is ridiculous that students that
live on Yanceyville and Summit Ave in Greensboro
are bused to Eastern in Gibsonville.... A waste of gas, money and time.

We have hungry students in our schools..and we need to do a better job providing adequate meals when they are there. No one in America should
be hungry...especially students in our public schools.

It was Krissie that went on and on about FRL kids should have their French Fries too. Heck give them all baked potatoes. But ketchup is important with lots of vitamin C so we might need those fattening fries after all.

GCS considers a wheat bun instead of white bun wholesome for the red dye hot dogs they serve. Let's not forget the sides that are carb, carb and more carb.

What school is serving these lunchable meals? How much do the kids have to pay for them?

The students were paying high school prices for these meals. It improved some today with chicken sandwiches and sandwich wraps. Hopefully, this is a first week of school issue...I would like to know why they served these children's meals to high school students. We should receive these at elementary school prices.