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HEALTH FOOD NAZIS IN OUR CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS
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Anonymous
That is sad. I saw something on the news about a program that sends food home in their backpacks on Friday afternoons. I'd like to contribute if anyone knows about it. |
Anonymous
| The use of the word Nazi aside, I wholeheartedly disagree with OPs assertion that kids should be allowed to eat junk food at school. If my kid celebrates with organic healthy snacks for birthdays and the celebrations become more of focus on fun activities rather than an excuse to eat sugary crap that renders them unable to learn afterwards and cranky for me when they get home - GREAT! if you want your kids to eat junk, then go ahead and keep taking them to McDonalds for dinner. But I love that schools are starting to wake up on this topic and so do many of the parents I know. |
Anonymous
I'm also upset about the lack of choice in recreational drugs. Crack and heroin were so common when I was a child. You could buy them on the front steps of the school. Now, with all these cops posted at every school, you have to walk down the block or around the corner. It's oppressive! I'm for freedom of choice! |
Anonymous
To start, here you go: http://news.change.org/stories/washington-dc-schools-serve-suppers-to-hungry-kids |
Anonymous
Thanks. |
Anonymous
Seriously. All you can get at school these days is ritalin or diet pills. I'm like, I already have those at home. What do I need school for? |
Anonymous
| I would have been with you until I heard about a kid from my home town who died because someone else had peanut butter at school. I'm respectful of the rules now. |
Anonymous
I went to college with someone who dropped dead from eating an egg roll fried in peanut oil, that the restaurant told him had no nuts. Family sued. The library is named after him now. Not only do I care about kids who have serious allergies, but it would be a tragedy for the kid who gave an allergic kid nuts, too. Imagine a child seeing an allergic reaction they caused. And for what? The right to eat peanut butter sandwiches or bring in cupcakes for a birthday? Is it really such a big sacrifice? |
Anonymous
| I like the healthy trend in school lunches. It prevents the school from serving the severely overcooked spinach and "meat" burgers we had when I was a kid. |
Anonymous
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When we went to school there were maybe 15 kids in a classroom not 25-30. The cupcakes we had back then were the small ones with one spreading of frosting. The cupcakes that most parents, including myself, grab at Giant or safeway are twice the size and have 10X the frosting that we had with homemade ones. In a class with 25-30 kids there will be a birthday cupcakes activity everyweek sometimes more than once. We go to a Montessori preschool with large classes and the teachers do allow cupcakes but request that they be the mini ones without the 4 inches of frosting or small mini muffins. Its reasonable and everyone complies but it is a smaller and closer community. Across the board in all public schools, it would be difficult to monitor whether people are ignoring the small treat compromise so no cupcakes makes more sense.
We also did not have chocolate milk in school when I was a kid. When you were in high school, did you ever hear about a McDonalds being in your school? McDonalds was a treat and back then the fries were half the size that they are now. There certainly were not any vending candy machines or soda machines in school. We also did not have chocolate milk as a milk option back then either. The school food may have tasted just as bad back then as it does now but the sugar and fat content significantly soared over the past few decades. Highly processed, poor quality foods are cheap and it is a crime that this is what we are giving our kids in school. Many of the "health food trends" actually are just trying to get back to what portions and food types were available when we were kids. Schools are larger and life threatening nut allergies are more common now. Nut allergies require very little exposure. The kid does not have to take a bite of your child's PB sandwich, he just needs to be in the vicinity so this ban is considered reasonable by most rationale people. I completely agree about recess. My child is going to go insane next year with only 30 minutes of recess a day and PE once a week. We will be getting up an hour earlier next year so that my 1st grader can run around the backyard for an hour before school. When it stays light out until 7pm she can get a few hours outside but once it starts getting dark really early I'm not sure what else we will do. |
Anonymous
| No, OP. No, I am not sad about food restrictions in school. In fact, we chose our private school in part because kids may not bring cupcakes to school for bdays. They have a great list of suggestions for bday treats that are far less likely to be a cupcake calorie bomb. I chose the school for it's adherence to a 2 recess per day schedule and a PE class every 4 days. There is a section in the handbook on guidelines for lunches and daily snack as well as a requirement for each kid to have their own water bottle every day. My biggest complaint is that they don't offer organic milk for sale in the cafeteria yet. With the rate of childhood obesity skyrocketing, no, I am not upset about any of this. I am thankful that her school has my back in the war against junk. |
Anonymous
You must be a spring chicken. I swear my 5th grade teacher smoked right in the classroom. |
Anonymous
| One of my French teachers in my highly rated FCPS left the classroom every 15 minutes like clockwork to smoke. We had 37 or 38 kids in that class. Good times. |
Anonymous
| Next time you start a thread remember to turn off your caps lock, OP. |
Anonymous
Your post is spot-on! Love your style, and you sure made your point! I'm a former teacher and non-smoker who definitely remembers those days. In the 1980's, I worked in a private Episcopal school, and we went on a chartered bus trip to a conference in Nashville. The six die-hard smokers were told for the first time (we'd been to other conferences by bus) that they'd have to sit in the back of the bus to smoke (as if smoke doesn't drift . . . :roll  or take their cars. They were furious over the "discrimination!" In those days, if you went to the teachers' lounge to make copies, use the phone (before cell phones), heat lunch, or take a quick break, your clothes reeked of smoke.
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