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A link o' links!
Jul. 30th, 2010 02:23 pm
Just about every article linked to is worth reading.
The one that's getting the comments, though, is the one about how prisoners eat better than schoolkids.
In fact, there's one such comment on the post I'm linking you to:
I am a former teacher and I am in agreement about how bad the schools are feeding our students. I have personally seen what nutrition can do for a child's reading levels. Although, I love reading your blog I am bothered that you would even mention in the most casual way that prisoners deserved good food. Is that going to be your next fight? Some of these prisoners may have taken the right away from a child to have the choice of eating a good meal but I guess that doesn't matter as long as our government provides them with good nutritious meals. I understand your original intent was to show that our kids certainly deserve better than prisoners but you should rethink your written support for the prisoners’ nutritional well being.
I replied to this comment, of course, with a succinct "What the hell is wrong with you?" (And you'll be pleased to note that I tactfully did NOT ask how this poster got to be a teacher while making glaring comma errors. Punctuation is important!) What part of being arrested suddenly means you're not allowed to eat? I'm not saying we should be feeding prisoners gourmet four-course meals... but we're not. We're just providing them with meals of some limited nutritional value. This is the bare minimum. And yes, children should be provided meals at least as good. Everybody should!
Oh... ugh. Some people are just so... so... UGH.
On the article itself, the comments are a little better. One points out that the meals in prisons are often cooked by prisoners, which allows them to do better on a budget as they don't get paid much. Another points out that, in fact, inadequate food in prisons is epidemic as people keep thinking it's even cheaper to cut funds from prisoners than from schoolkids. Schoolkids don't vote, but nobody likes criminals (and often they don't get to vote either).
But even there, there's a "I pay taxes for my child to eat, not for PEDAPHILES!!!" comment (spelling all theirs). Bet her song would change if her kid got arrested.
The one that's getting the comments, though, is the one about how prisoners eat better than schoolkids.
In fact, there's one such comment on the post I'm linking you to:
I am a former teacher and I am in agreement about how bad the schools are feeding our students. I have personally seen what nutrition can do for a child's reading levels. Although, I love reading your blog I am bothered that you would even mention in the most casual way that prisoners deserved good food. Is that going to be your next fight? Some of these prisoners may have taken the right away from a child to have the choice of eating a good meal but I guess that doesn't matter as long as our government provides them with good nutritious meals. I understand your original intent was to show that our kids certainly deserve better than prisoners but you should rethink your written support for the prisoners’ nutritional well being.
I replied to this comment, of course, with a succinct "What the hell is wrong with you?" (And you'll be pleased to note that I tactfully did NOT ask how this poster got to be a teacher while making glaring comma errors. Punctuation is important!) What part of being arrested suddenly means you're not allowed to eat? I'm not saying we should be feeding prisoners gourmet four-course meals... but we're not. We're just providing them with meals of some limited nutritional value. This is the bare minimum. And yes, children should be provided meals at least as good. Everybody should!
Oh... ugh. Some people are just so... so... UGH.
On the article itself, the comments are a little better. One points out that the meals in prisons are often cooked by prisoners, which allows them to do better on a budget as they don't get paid much. Another points out that, in fact, inadequate food in prisons is epidemic as people keep thinking it's even cheaper to cut funds from prisoners than from schoolkids. Schoolkids don't vote, but nobody likes criminals (and often they don't get to vote either).
But even there, there's a "I pay taxes for my child to eat, not for PEDAPHILES!!!" comment (spelling all theirs). Bet her song would change if her kid got arrested.
