TUSD is a joke and gets no more money!

When my son was a student at TUSD last year, there was "the food police", who were constantly telling parents that they couldn't send "unhealthy" food in their child's lunches and policing what was in kid's lunch bags and backpacks. Yet the school itself was serving white bread and other food that's not healthy.

Additionally, when my son was finished eating lunch (the lunch he brought from HOME), he wasn't allowed to simply get up and leave. He had to RAISE HIS HAND, and wait for the "monitor" to come and inspect his remains to determine if he'd eaten enough. If they felt he hadn't, he had to stay until he'd eaten enough to satisfy the monitor. These rules weren't specific to him--they were in effect for every child at his school.

To me, these are two glaring examples of waste in a TUSD school. They pay someone to make sure kids have eaten enough of their lunches? They pay someone to make sure my child doesn't have a cookie or a pudding cup stashed in the bottom of his lunch bag or backpack? And Fagen says the budget is cut to the bone? That's a joke!!

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