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March 16, 2009
Some Stories Will Bring A Blogger Out Of Retirement.
I am not making this up.
UPDATE, March 25: I just had a nice phone conversation with Mark Rusin, the Child Nutrition Director for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. He explained to me that the meal that was served in February was a "Southern Cooking" meal (including fried chicken, but no watermelon because it's too expensive this time of year) that the cafeteria occasionally offers as a promotional meal. The idea, he says, was not to link that meal to Black History Month -- and in fact, the meal is occasionally offered at other times of the year. He surmises that when the cafeteria contacted those who do the school announcements to inform them of the promotional meal, somehow someone outside the cafeteria staffed must have linked the meal to Black History Month, which was not what the cafeteria intended.
(I do know that the meal was presented to the students on the morning announcements as linked to Black History Month; not only is this what my daughter told me, but two recent items in the school newspaper registered student complaints about the linkage. The school newspaper is not available online, it seems.)
Posted by Eric at March 16, 2009 6:58 PM