What’s Happening: Parents fined for no grain in lunch

Have you heard about the parents who did not send a grain item with their child to lunch at school and were fined $10 for providing said child with—get this—Ritz Crackers? I’m sure her nutritional content would have been deficient that day without that item! What if the poor kid had a grain allergy, or she had already had grains for breakfast and would for dinner, too? The child’s lunch consisted of carrots, an orange, leftover beef and potatoes, and milk—which, frankly, is more than Wood Sprite usually eats in a meal. She tends to graze throughout the day. This is the stupidest thing I’ve heard in—well, a little while.

Walmart is actually asking its employees to donate items so their coworkers can have holidays. You can’t make this stuff up! How about simply paying your employees a living wage, Walmart?

Jump into hackschooling! Check out this video featuring a young unschooling boy who talks about the benefits of hackschooling and his own life as an unschooler. I love that we are hearing more stories like these; they are so inspiring. I cannot imagine what life must have been liked for homeschoolers and unschoolers who did not have such resources and stories for support twenty years ago. They were really pioneers and I’m so grateful to be able to follow in their footsteps.

You know how people always say to assume nothing about anyone? I love this post about five things we really need to assume about everyone instead. It’s good food for thought.

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