Seaton and Yu Ying country's healthiest schools

[Anonymous]

Can’t you get off your soapbox for one minute? You make yourself ridiculous in any language age. This is a good thing. Be happy.

[Anonymous]

The Seaton Administration pushed this a few years ago, has nothing to do with the parents. There are some other initiatives they push as part of the Healthy School Initiative. Things like expanding the garden and garden education programs, limiting foods allowed at all events, including PTO events. PTO is limited in what they are allowed to sell during fundraiser events (no pizza, no bakesales, no candy, etc), limited in the amount of food related events (ie, restaurant related fundraisers, etc). In lieu of kid birthday celebrations children are asked to either bring a healthy snack (from a given list) or to extend recess by 10 minutes in honor of the student. Teacher Appreciation events have to follow these healthy guidelines. Packed lunches for kids have to follow the healthy guidelines. No treats are supposed to be given to kids, even for special events, holidays, etc. The school hosts a wellness fair every year. Etc.

Basically, the school really puts in a lot of effort and takes pride in its status as a healthy school. Sure, plenty of other schools are doing similar things, but Seaton has decided that this will be one of its cornerstone projects. They want to be known for promoting Healthy Lifestyle values. Applying for this designation is one of the ways they are solidifying that mission.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to Seaton and Yu Ying for being recognized as among the healthiest schools in the country! They are the only DC schools to have the resources to apply for grants within their school.

https://www.healthiergeneration.org/healthiestschools/americas_healthiest_schools_for_2018/

Fixed it for you.

Not a chance these are the only two schools in DC that meet the criteria:

Meet or exceed federal nutrition standards for school meals and snacks

Offer breakfast daily

Implement district wellness policies and update progress annually

Provide students with at least 60 minutes of physical education per week and ensure physical activity throughout the school day

Isn't offering breakfast daily to all kids something you find more often at high FARMs schools? This is a weird list.

Anything that encourages all schools, not just the high FARMS ones, to offer daily breakfast is a good thing.

That would seem like a waste of resources to me for many schools, like the JKLM ones. Daily breakfast isn't offered in many schools because the parents do it at home. Resources aren't infinite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Seaton Administration pushed this a few years ago, has nothing to do with the parents. There are some other initiatives they push as part of the Healthy School Initiative. Things like expanding the garden and garden education programs, limiting foods allowed at all events, including PTO events. PTO is limited in what they are allowed to sell during fundraiser events (no pizza, no bakesales, no candy, etc), limited in the amount of food related events (ie, restaurant related fundraisers, etc). In lieu of kid birthday celebrations children are asked to either bring a healthy snack (from a given list) or to extend recess by 10 minutes in honor of the student. Teacher Appreciation events have to follow these healthy guidelines. Packed lunches for kids have to follow the healthy guidelines. No treats are supposed to be given to kids, even for special events, holidays, etc. The school hosts a wellness fair every year. Etc.

Basically, the school really puts in a lot of effort and takes pride in its status as a healthy school. Sure, plenty of other schools are doing similar things, but Seaton has decided that this will be one of its cornerstone projects. They want to be known for promoting Healthy Lifestyle values. Applying for this designation is one of the ways they are solidifying that mission.

I love the birthday celebrations idea. It's nice that a kid whose parent doesn't send in a snack can still provide something nice to their peers on their birthday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Seaton Administration pushed this a few years ago, has nothing to do with the parents. There are some other initiatives they push as part of the Healthy School Initiative. Things like expanding the garden and garden education programs, limiting foods allowed at all events, including PTO events. PTO is limited in what they are allowed to sell during fundraiser events (no pizza, no bakesales, no candy, etc), limited in the amount of food related events (ie, restaurant related fundraisers, etc). In lieu of kid birthday celebrations children are asked to either bring a healthy snack (from a given list) or to extend recess by 10 minutes in honor of the student. Teacher Appreciation events have to follow these healthy guidelines. Packed lunches for kids have to follow the healthy guidelines. No treats are supposed to be given to kids, even for special events, holidays, etc. The school hosts a wellness fair every year. Etc.

Basically, the school really puts in a lot of effort and takes pride in its status as a healthy school. Sure, plenty of other schools are doing similar things, but Seaton has decided that this will be one of its cornerstone projects. They want to be known for promoting Healthy Lifestyle values. Applying for this designation is one of the ways they are solidifying that mission.

I love the birthday celebrations idea. It's nice that a kid whose parent doesn't send in a snack can still provide something nice to their peers on their birthday.

Indeed, cool to hear about these thoughtful initiatives at Seaton! [I have nothing to do with the school]

[Anonymous]

FYI - DC law requires all public schools to have breakfast available to all students. This is not just a FARMS/Title I rule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI - DC law requires all public schools to have breakfast available to all students. This is not just a FARMS/Title I rule.

https://dcps.dc.gov/food

School breakfast is offered at every school and absolutely free for ALL DCPS students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to Seaton and Yu Ying for being recognized as among the healthiest schools in the country! They are the only DC schools to have the resources to apply for grants within their school.

https://www.healthiergeneration.org/healthiestschools/americas_healthiest_schools_for_2018/

Fixed it for you.

Not a chance these are the only two schools in DC that meet the criteria:

Meet or exceed federal nutrition standards for school meals and snacks

Offer breakfast daily

Implement district wellness policies and update progress annually

Provide students with at least 60 minutes of physical education per week and ensure physical activity throughout the school day

Isn't offering breakfast daily to all kids something you find more often at high FARMs schools? This is a weird list.

Anything that encourages all schools, not just the high FARMS ones, to offer daily breakfast is a good thing.

That would seem like a waste of resources to me for many schools, like the JKLM ones. Daily breakfast isn't offered in many schools because the parents do it at home. Resources aren't infinite.

As someone else posted, it is offered in all schools, including the JKLMs, but only on paper. I wish the JKLMs did offer it, not only on paper, as well as mid-afternoon snacks while we're talking about it, because there is just so much food and snacks you can send in with your kid when they're in before- and after-care. It's a really long day, and food shouldn't always be a self-only thing you dig deep into your backpack for. I appreciate the civilized nature of a collective snack, even though there is nothing civilized about the grub served at lunch in most schools in this area, so school lunch is not an option.