A monument to all our sins. Decommissioned 12/17/2014.
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A row has broken out over school dinners after it emerged reception pupils were being given just one chicken nugget for their lunch.Infant pupils around the country are all entitled to a free hot meal every lunchtime under the government's flagship scheme brought in this month.But the quality of the food they are being given was called into question today when the measly meals being served up to the youngest pupils in Birmingham were revealed.City Councillor Valerie Seabright said: 'I welcome free school meals, but I'm seriously concerned having been to see a school that was not the best quality.'The rations and portions are not brilliant. In reception class, children get just one nugget, Year 1 get two and Year 2 get three or four.'The whole point is to make sure that children get adequate meals with good nutrition. In one class I went to the children didn't get any fresh vegetables or fruit.'This is serious. It is not working. I think we should insist that there is more training of staff. They need to know about sizes of rations.'Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg launched plans to give all under-sevens a free meal at lunchtime and the scheme started in schools earlier this month.But the idea has already suffered setbacks after it emerged some schools had to bus in meals and others were providing cold food for pupils.Councillor Seabright said council-owned food provider Cityserve - which is responsible for meals at 92 per cent of the city's schools - was leaving youngsters short-changed.She added: 'It's all very well just saying 'We have free school meals', but you have to be able to implement that policy.'The children obviously didn't just get the one chicken nugget, there was potato and vegetables on offer too, but I don't know if they should be given this processed food at all.'All the children are getting the same money per head so it's a bit naughty of the company to give the reception class less.'Others in the area pointed out that even if children were given more generous portion of nuggets, the food was unlikely to provide the nutrition children need.Labour's Barry Bowles said: 'These are processed foods. Why are we not giving them fresh food?'Birmingham City Council's children's boss has admitted the situation is 'unacceptable' and said bosses are investigating meals provided by Cityserve.Nutrition expert Mel Wakeman said the vague advice schools are given for dinners alow them to serve up inadequate meals.She said: 'The way the guidelines are worded, children could potentially have two portions of fried food and two pastry based meals a week, which would be too much.'I don't think we should just get rid of all the food children like because we have to be realistic, they just won't eat what is put in front of them if it's really boring.'But with things like chicken nuggets, I don't think they should have that kind of fried food more than once a week.'
Something else i'm getting tired of ... all this stupid bullshit we have to listen to all the time about children. That's all you hear in this country: Help the children, what about the children, save the children. You know what I say? "Fuck the children! Fuck em". They are getting entirely too much attention. And I know what you're thinking: "Jesus! He's not going to attack children, is he?" Yes he is! He's going to attack children! I know that you single dads and soccer moms who think you are such fucking heroes are not going to like this, but some body has to tell you for your own good. Your children are over-rated and over-valued, you have turned them into little cult objects. You have child fetish. And it's not healthy.And don't give me that weak shit: "Well, I love my children!". Fuck you! Everybody loves their children. Doesn't make you special. That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is this constant mindless yammering in the media; this neuratic fixation that says somehow everything, everything!, has to revolve around children. It's completely out of balance.Listen, there are couple of things about kids you have to remember. First of all, they are not all cute. Yeah, in fact if you look at them closely some of them are rather unpleasant looking, and some of them dont smell good either, alright? Stay with me on this, the sooner you face it the better off you're gonna be. Second premise, not all children are smart and clever. Got that? Kids are like any other group of people, a few winners, a whole lot of losers. There are a lot of loser kids out there who simply are not gonna go anywhere. You can't save them all, you gotta let them go, you gotta cut them loose. You gotta stop over-protecting them because you are making them too soft.Today's kids are way too soft. For one thing, there is too much emphasis on safety. Child proof medicine bottles, fire proof pajamas, child restrained car seats... and helmets! Baseball, bicycles, skateboard helmets. Kids have to wear helmets now for everything except jerking off! Grown-ups have taken all the fun from being a kid just to save a few thousand lives. It's pathetic. What's happening is that these soft fruity baby boomers are raising an entire generation of soft fruity kids who aren't allowed to have hazardous toys. Whatever happened to natural selection; survival of the fittest? The kid who swallowed too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own. Simple as that. Nature knows best. We're saving entirely too many lives in this country of all ages. Nature should be allowed to do its job of killing off the weak and sickly and ignorant people without interference from airbags and bating helmets. Just think of it as passive eugenics.Now here's another example of over-protection: Do you ever notice on TV news, every time some guy with an AK-47 stralls on to a school yard and kills three or four kids and a couple of teachers. The next day the school is over-run with councilers and psychiatrists and grief councilers and trauma therapists, trying to help the children cope. Shit, when I was in school, someone came to our school and killed three or four of us, we went right on with our arithmatic. 35 classmates minus 4 equals 31. We were tough. I say if kids can handle the violence at home, they should be able to handle the violence at school.Here's another bunch of ignorant shit, school uniforms. Bad theory! The idea that if kids wear uniforms to school it helps keep order. Don't these schools make enough damage making all these kids think alike? Now they're gonna get them to look alike too? And it's not a new idea. I first saw it on an old news reels from the 1930's, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German!One more item about children, and that is, the superstitious nonsense that blames tobacco companies for kids who smoke. Listen, kids don't smoke because the camel in sunglasses tells them to. They smoke for the same reasons adults do: because it relieves anxiety and depression. And you'd be anxious and depressed too if you had to put up with these pathetic insecure striving anal yuppy parents who enroll you in college before you're old enough to know which side of the plate pen smells the worst. And then they fill you full of riddle and drag you all over town in search of meaningless structure: little league, cub scouts, swimming, soccer, karate, piano, bagpipes, water colors, witch craft, glass blowing, and dildo practice. They even have play dates for Christ's sakes. Playing is now done by appointment! Whatever happened to: you show me your weewee and I'll show you mine? No wonder kids smoke... it helps! Not as much as weed, but hey, you can't have everything.You know it's true. Parents are burning these kids out on structure. I think every day all children should have three hours of day-dreaming. Just day-dreaming. You can use a little of it yourself. just sit at the window and stare at the clouds, it's good for you. If you wanna know how you can help your children: Leave them the fuck alone!"
