Letters to the Editor
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Where are the parents?
Really? Where are they? Do they care? Do they ask the kid, "Hey, how was school? What did you have for lunch? How's the food there?" Do they pack a lunch for the kid? Do they say they are too busy, even though it only takes about 15 minutes to throw a sandwich and some fruit in a lunchbox? Are they lobbying the school to have decent lunches?
What's in the shopping cart?
I honestly don't get it. I really don't. My mother gave me carrot sticks as a snack. I'd get one chocolate bar as a snack, not a big bag of chips. She taught me to pack my own lunch. We had things like meat and vegetables for dinner. She worked from 8AM to 3PM and had a 1 hour drive each way to and from the schools she taught. How could my mom do this and not modern moms? She was even obese. Go figure. My siblings and I are not obese and never were. We figured it was just her. We didn't inherit her obesity, either through behavior or genetics.
So, again, what's with the parents?