No more trading PB&Js for gummy worms...

"Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school," Carmona said. "It's about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It's milk versus a Coke. But with allergies and any medical issue, of course, we would make an exception." -Principal Elsa Carmona, Little Village Academy in Chicago

This "academy" will do its part to protect allergies and medical issues (that's sweet), but apparently freedom isn't important. This is a perfect example of whacked-out desire to control anything and everything (how this is even legal is beyond me). How can you reason with people who think it's okay to take away a parent's and student's choice to pack whatever they darn well please and/or can afford? How can you make a student eat a cafeteria-prepared meal if they'd rather have fried Ho-Hos, Doritos dipped in full-fat ranch dressing, and a jumbo-size o' Coca Cola? Or, for a less extreme scenario, a PB&J, bag of grapes, yogurt, and chocolate chip cookie. How is it the principal's decision as to whether or not the student buys the gobbly-gook from the cafeteria, or if they tote their brown bag with them to school? 

What's next? Will the principal then say the tires are running bald on their bicycle and they need to be changed before they run into a mailbox, or else? Should the students be on some sort of monitor to ensure they're watching no more than 3 minutes of the Disney Channel, or they're served a detention? Grow up, people. 

This is absurd. End of story.