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Anonymous
| PP here - just have to add .. the longevity included time spent under severe stress escaping Soviet persecution and really poor medical care. Most of your life has been predetermined .. really. |
Anonymous
| So does anyone know if the school is looking into going organic? It would be great for all types of eaters! |
Anonymous
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I respect parents' desire to have their children eat healthy, nutritious food but worrying about a small amount of sodium and trans fat seems overdone. Seriously, assuming your child doesn't eat a stick of margarine or drink straight salad dressing for lunch at Holton, what percentage of her total food consumption for the day will be threatening to her overall health? Won't the fact that she is apparently eating 100 percent nutritionally pure foods outside of school and she is athletically active mitigate the terrible scourge of Holton food choices for the very few years you wish for her to attend? Because when she is attending that coed public high school, the lunches will for sure meet your demanding standards!!!!!
Again, I agree that better nutrition is a wonderful goal, but I think Holton is likely to do better in this regard than almost any school I could think of, private or public. |
Anonymous
Why? |
Anonymous
| Address your food questions directly with the admissions staff. All schools continually revisit their menus and an increase in menu related questions to the admission staff (from families indicating a true interest in the school) are likely to impact change. |
Anonymous
| I would love to address the lunch options with Holton too. It sounds like with some work and creativity the school can switch to local and organic food without spending more, as Sidwell did. Any ideas who to approach at school without creating opposition and hostility? |
Anonymous
To me, there would be more satisfaction if it was a pay as you go plan, rather than included in tuition. |
Anonymous
[Groan] You all sound like difficult parents raising picky eaters. |
Anonymous
| Oh wow, I try to avoid trans fat too but this obsessiveness -- not even a bit -- is dangerous in itself and can create issues around food. You should read Lessons of a Skin Knee. She talks about how this kind of obsessiveness does a disservice to kids. What do you do when she's invited to other children's homes? How will she feel -- at any school -- being the kid whose "not allowed" to eat what the other kids eat? What will happen when she finally is liberated from these restrictive rules? |
Anonymous
| Why do I think all of these trans-fat obsessed parents are raising kids that will LIVE at McDonald's in college? |
Anonymous
| As a Girl Scout troop leader, I can tell you that it's the girls who have the most restrictive diets at home (e.g. no soda and no sweets except dessert once a week; no refined sugars or processed foods; etc.) who really bust out and eat junk food like crazy when their parents are not around. One girl's parents told me she had never had a soda in her life and should not be allowed any sodas on Girl Scout outings; on an outing she asked to buy a soda and told me herself that she had had sodas. Parents, please get real. If you place extreme restrictions of your daughters' diets you are setting them up for disordered eating, of which there is a LOT at girls' schools. |
Anonymous
| Being "into nutrition" just sounds odd to me. I'm trying to get my head around the idea of having a passion for nutrition, and I'm having trouble. Not to pile on to OP, but I just wonder how much thought and time goes into this. I am careful about my diet and my kids' diet but this means that I've incorporated certain choices into what we eat and on a day to day basis I don't think about it. I'm not into it. And I'm certainly not worrying about the occasional junk food or whatever. Food is a joy. There's a reason why so many cultures and religions have rituals around food. I wouldn't want to deprive my children of that joy. And sometimes that joy means a walk to Baskin Robbins for ice cream (with sprinkles!). And neither of my kids are overweight or unhealthy. |
Anonymous
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I am the one with the Div I Ivy athlete whose DD attended Holton. Let me say first it is a truly excellent school and I realize my child wouldn't have made it to an Ivy w/o Holton. I wrote that the food was the one sore spot for us and it was. That's because every parent was forced to pay for it. My husband + I worked really hard to be able to afford Holton ... it was really expensive for our budget. We thought the lunches were a huge waste of money and really terrible. Whoever is writing that Holton has good food simply has never eaten there. Yes, my kid ate the salads...but we had no idea whether they were sprayed or not with preservatives or whatever else. All of the dishes seemed to have some gloppy/fattening sauces to go with them.
The majority of Americans are overweight and many have really no knowledge of nutrition. It wouldn't hurt the school to provide a healthier fare. I know when we visited NCS...they actually had healthier food.
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Anonymous
I detest statements like this. You don't think it possible that someone who has eaten at Holton could find the food there good? Please. Your dogmatic statements about food make me discount your opinion. |
Anonymous
| A lot of people are writing to criticize people who are trying to find healthy options for their kids. And those people don't have kids at Holton. |