For example, if you'd read conservative pundit Michelle Malkin's account of
the Little Village Academy incident, you could easily have believed that the packed - lunch ban extended throughout the city of Chicago — and you certainly would never have known that the Little Village principal reportedly retracted her controversial edict just one week later.
These two incidents were reminiscent of other, similar stories I've reported on in the past: in 2011, a Chicago school principal at
the Little Village Academy placed an outright ban on home - packed lunches, setting off a barrage of criticism, and in 2012 there were widespread reports that a North Carolina «state inspector» had forced a child to give up her packed lunch of a turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice because the meal did not meet USDA guidelines; instead the child was forced to take the school lunch of chicken nuggets.
At his public school,
Little Village Academy on Chicago's West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home.
Not exact matches
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