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The saddest thing about reading this story is that it is not shocking. I am truly sad that I am not surprised.

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That "If" is redundant. The tool who said it had to know it. Every parent knows it. Heads must roll, here, or the residents of that school district deserve exactly what they're gonna get.

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1/6 1/6 1/6

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<i>"If students were humiliated and upset," Olsen said, "that’s very unfortunate and not what we wanted to happen."</i>

Who could possibly misinterpret our good intentions behind tossing a hungry kids lunch in the garbage?

I mean, really, get a grip folks.

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"The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away." --Madeleine M. Kunin

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Who knew that the manual sent to the school lunchworkers, <i>To Serve Students</i>, was a cookbook?!

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Is our children eating?

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As Mormons, I hope they did not toss any salads.

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They couldn't have a sister <strike>wife</strike> child pay for it?

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Let alone the Joseph Smith Special or Moroni Macaroni.

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Turned water into wine and gotten busted for it.

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Ha! A rider was stripped from the Farm Bill that would have revealed what members of Congress received subsidies and how much.

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It's upside down!

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Wait, wait, wait, wait, waitetty wait. You buried the lede again.

Unemployed youth go to this place called "school" rather than seeking gainful employment, they spend most of the day there, and are taught things, and they <i>don't pay a dime</i> for this. If that ain't communism, you can call me Uncle Joe!

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