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Teacher suspended in N.C. lunch cop controversy
Story Date: 3/7/2012
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Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 3/6/12
The Hoke County, N.C., preschool teacher supervising a classroom in which a student’s lunch was deemed unsatisfactory by a state employee and supplemented with chicken nuggets has been suspended indefinitely, according to report by the Carolina Journal.
School officials cited “a failure to follow district” policy, but did not state specifically how the teacher violated that policy in a letter sent to parents on Feb. 28.
Last month a state employee inspecting lunches in the teacher’s classroom deemed unsatisfactory a 4-year-old girl’s lunch that included a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips. Her lunch was supplemented with chicken nuggets.
USDA spokesman Bruce Alexander is quoted as explaining the inspector was a North Carolina Education staff member making the rounds in the state’s “Star Rated” licensing program that rates child care centers, including nutritional content of meals.
“A teacher apparently was nervous during this state review and mishandled the situation,” Alexander is quoted as saying.
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