School food issues

To the editor:

I have been made aware of a situation in our school system that raises my sense of outrage to a new level.

Recently a friend of mine was told by his children that they couldn’t eat what was being served to them at lunch. He investigated and it was true. Here’s the lunch they were given by our school system: sour or frozen milk, two pieces of stale bread with a slice of cheese with no condiment. That’s it. The prisoners in our jail eat better.

The response from the food services administrator: “Uh, we’ve been having some problems with our vendor” You mean to tell me the Osceola County School Board doesn’t review the food contacts before they’re signed? This borders on the criminal.

With all the emphasis on nutrition by the school system, is this another lie told to the public by the superintendent and the School Board? The vendor should be terminated, the contract reviewed and possibly sued to recover the money they have been paid and perhaps others in the system should be fired and someone hired who cares about children. If I were a parent, I would be in somebody’s face demanding an explanation. If you have children in the school, you should, too.

Oh, by the way, a recent Friday’s lunch: a beef stick, a cheese stick and a cup of frozen apple juice. If this hadn’t been questioned by a concerned parent, it would still be happening. Oliver Twist wouldn’t be asking for another, he would be saying, “Please sir, I can’t take any more.”

Mike Bast
Kissimmee

Stop whining

To the editor:

Much has been debated about putting a mosque at ground zero.

For all I care, they can move the dirty movies, peep shows and topless joints down from 42 Second Street and cover the area with adults-only signs.

Why would we honor an event that exposed us as a bunch of idiots who could be overwhelmed by clowns with box cutters and plastic knives. The people who died there were like every other mugger victim in New York City. I don’t see any fancy buildings honoring the unknown robbery victim. They all died because our airlines wouldn’t lock their cockpit doors. When they quit having flight engineers to save money, it was a pain in the behind to have a pilot unhook to let in the stewardess or steward for coffee.

Ralph Nader warned about this in the 2000 election. I was forced to disgorge tax money to pay the relatives of the dead millions of bucks so they wouldn’t sue the airlines, money that should have gone into killing terrorists. What we should do is simply place two titanium markers at the center point of both towers, one side “NEVER,” the other side, “AGAIN.”

We should go out to that hole in the ground in Pennsylvania and fill it with white lime so it would stand out forever like that horse figure in western England, still alive and kicking after 3,500 years. That place is holy ground, like the Alamo, Little Round Top and Valley Forge.

Those people met their fate like battle casualties, not murder victims. We need to quit mewling and puking about the World Trade Towers and start rewarding honor and courage, not victim-hood.

Charles B. Tiffany
Kissimmee