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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 29-12-2014

Dec 29, 2014 11:00

Dinner lady quits after being told she can't apply different rules to poor and rich kids
(tags: children money food poverty viaJennieRigg )
Neil Gaiman talks about how he came to write Good Omens with Terry Pratchett
(tags: NeilGaiman terrypratchett writing )
When a woman gets a cursed box, the results are not what you'd expect
(tags: monsters ( Read more... )

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Comments 11

helflaed December 29 2014, 11:49:13 UTC

All of the children should have been made to order something healthy- not just those on free school meals.

abigail_n December 29 2014, 12:05:23 UTC

Yes, quite. The school's response, at least, suggests that it isn't actually possible for a student to order only sweets without being called on it. So this woman's problem seems mainly to be that she can't identify the kids who are on assistance, and I'm doubtful that she's actually seen a lot of cases where those kids in particular are eating non-nutritious food. It's not the first time I've heard about people feeling entitled to comment and criticize the shopping choices of people on welfare, even for non-scandalous choices.

andrewducker December 29 2014, 12:23:47 UTC

Well, yes.

I have no problem with basic food quality standards. I object to them only applying to the poor kids.

wildeabandon December 29 2014, 13:16:08 UTC

Yes. I mean, I think there's an argument to be made that it's more important to ensure that they're applied to the poor kids, because poverty makes it much harder to ensure that they're getting a balanced diet outside of school, but as far as I can tell from the quotations this woman's argument was pretty much "taxpayers money therefore I should be able to take away their autonomy blahblahblah"

quirkytizzy December 29 2014, 12:41:14 UTC

Omg that comic is SO HEARTWARMING! AWWWWW!

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How statisticians changed the war, and the war changed statistics drdoug December 29 2014, 14:58:07 UTC

What? An article about WW2 and stats that doesn't mention the German Tank Problem?! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

resonant December 30 2014, 22:30:38 UTC

Oooh .... That was interesting

momentsmusicaux December 30 2014, 22:02:40 UTC

Why not simply force the kids to eat healthy food no matter how their lunch is funded?

momentsmusicaux December 30 2014, 22:03:12 UTC

Ah, I see that point's already been made further up :)

andrewducker December 30 2014, 23:14:51 UTC

Well, healthy-ish. I think that having nice, not horribly unhealthy, food is reasonable.

And yes, it should be the same for everyone.