Ice-cream in middle school cafeteria

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you don’t want your kid to have ice cream, pack lunch and don’t fund a school lunch account if your kid won’t follow your rules.

Not a solution at all, unfortunately. Kids share food and provide for friends all the time. They also trade for food.

There are kids who only eat ice cream and chips for lunch almost daily and nothing else.

You will always have the problem of food sharing and eliminating ice cream won’t eliminate your kid from getting junk. It will just be candy and chips and baked goods.

Like I said, if your child won’t listen to your directives about junk food, the single only thing you can control is whether she buys it. I mean, basically OP wants to solve her parenting problem by eliminating ice cream for all and it’s so ridiculous to think it would matter one single little bit since junk food is everywhere and freely accessible beyond the lunch line.

Yes, 20% of children in America are obese (not just overweight) so let’s throw our hands up in the air. Jesus Christ. We have to start serving and eating REAL food to solve this public health crisis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for sharing. I understand the context of eating disorders outweighs the concern about sugar. But it doesn’t mean we should have an all or nothing approach. Nobody is suggesting that kids diet should be micromanaged: they is what they want and how much they want. I am of the opinion that ideally sweets should be reserved for special occasions, like holidays and birthdays. What PPs might be missing is that it is not just “a little ice cream” every day. Kids are bombarded with sugar everywhere. Teachers bring candies and cookies at my MCPS school almost daily, school events include sweets, kids like to go to Starbucks or get bobba after school to hang out, as PP explained, some kids eat a bowl of ice cream at home after dinner, there are birthday parties, Halloween, Thanksgiving, sleepovers with sweets… it doesn’t stop. It needs to be managed, less sugar is better than more. At least, we should be able to limit ice cream for lunch.

Who is “we?” You can, for your kid and your kid alone. Parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to mcps. The ice cream in the cafeteria is your first clue to how much mcps cares about students. Zero.

Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be no sugar or junk food in American schools. Policy makers, when are you going to stop this nonsense? Just ban the stuff.

Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me, back when my kid was in ES, some parent complained about teachers giving student candy as an encouragement.

We have this now at our ES. The PTA president got up in arms about it and he got the principal to tell the teachers to stop doing it. Utterly ridiculous. Cannot imagine trying to impose your worldview on an entire school like that. Fortunately most teachers are ignoring the principal's new direction.

I have friends who are struggling with tooth decay in their kids and teachers giving our starburst and all kinds of crap just exacerbates the problem. Did any of you guys have this crap when you were in school? Did you really have candy and bags of plastic garbage from china 25 times per year for every kids’ birthday? It’s totally unnecessary and I believe a symptom of how we self soothe in a period of time where life is unbalanced and awful so we stuff ourselves full of sugar and buy plastic crap from target to try to feel better. Just stop. Get off the wheel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what kind of ice cream is available?

They have this at our elementary school once/wk and it drives me nuts. Just why? If I don't let my kid get it, he will feel left out. Let's just remove it. Sure there are bigger things to focus on/worry about, but this seems so simple, obvious and easy.

The problem is that the majority of the parents in the district don’t agree with you. Simple, obvious and easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me, back when my kid was in ES, some parent complained about teachers giving student candy as an encouragement.

We have this now at our ES. The PTA president got up in arms about it and he got the principal to tell the teachers to stop doing it. Utterly ridiculous. Cannot imagine trying to impose your worldview on an entire school like that. Fortunately most teachers are ignoring the principal's new direction.

I have friends who are struggling with tooth decay in their kids and teachers giving our starburst and all kinds of crap just exacerbates the problem. Did any of you guys have this crap when you were in school? Did you really have candy and bags of plastic garbage from china 25 times per year for every kids’ birthday? It’s totally unnecessary and I believe a symptom of how we self soothe in a period of time where life is unbalanced and awful so we stuff ourselves full of sugar and buy plastic crap from target to try to feel better. Just stop. Get off the wheel.

Yes.

-Gen X public school attendee

[Anonymous]

Wow, these responses are shocking to me. Of course there shouldn’t be ice cream available in a school. I bet these are all liberals who think there should be gun control but ice cream is “individual” choice and “teach your kid to do the right thing.”

I teach in DCPS. There are a million things wrong with DCPS but at least ice cream and vending machines selling junk aren’t around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, these responses are shocking to me. Of course there shouldn’t be ice cream available in a school. I bet these are all liberals who think there should be gun control but ice cream is “individual” choice and “teach your kid to do the right thing.”

I teach in DCPS. There are a million things wrong with DCPS but at least ice cream and vending machines selling junk aren’t around.

I don’t understand. conservatives cannot distinguish between harm or ice cream and guns? Harmful effects of ice cream only affect the kid choosing to eat it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are new to MCPS and middle school, and what is new to us is that there is ice-cream available to middle schoolers for lunch. I quickly noticed when my daughter started to eat ice-cream for lunch in the fall. We have had a discussion about it and she understands the importance of eating healthy. (We try at home). But she has since gained weight and doesn’t fit into some kind of her pants she fit just a month ago. She admitted today that her friends eat ice cream every day and share with her. Parents have no idea, most of the time.

Parents, check transaction history in your kids lunch accounts!!! Talk to them about eating healthy. Mom of her one friend found out about her eating ice cream today and was not happy. She does not know yet her daughter has been having ice cream almost daily for the past 2 months.

Has anyone tried to remove ice cream from the school cafeteria in MCPS? Why is there ice cream at schools in the wake of obesity epidemic? Kids are addicted to sugar. There is so much info on how bad it is for them. WAPO has a long one on how it damaged liver in kids.

Any ideas on how to get ice cream out of schools would be appreciated.


Most of the food in our schools' cafeterias is ultra processed junk food. No surprise why obesity is an increasing problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are new to MCPS and middle school, and what is new to us is that there is ice-cream available to middle schoolers for lunch. I quickly noticed when my daughter started to eat ice-cream for lunch in the fall. We have had a discussion about it and she understands the importance of eating healthy. (We try at home). But she has since gained weight and doesn’t fit into some kind of her pants she fit just a month ago. She admitted today that her friends eat ice cream every day and share with her. Parents have no idea, most of the time.

Parents, check transaction history in your kids lunch accounts!!! Talk to them about eating healthy. Mom of her one friend found out about her eating ice cream today and was not happy. She does not know yet her daughter has been having ice cream almost daily for the past 2 months.

Has anyone tried to remove ice cream from the school cafeteria in MCPS? Why is there ice cream at schools in the wake of obesity epidemic? Kids are addicted to sugar. There is so much info on how bad it is for them. WAPO has a long one on how it damaged liver in kids.

Any ideas on how to get ice cream out of schools would be appreciated.

Why shouldn’t she eat ice cream?

Stop fat shaming your daughter under your guise of eating “healthy.”

Such shitty parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me, back when my kid was in ES, some parent complained about teachers giving student candy as an encouragement.

We have this now at our ES. The PTA president got up in arms about it and he got the principal to tell the teachers to stop doing it. Utterly ridiculous. Cannot imagine trying to impose your worldview on an entire school like that. Fortunately most teachers are ignoring the principal's new direction.

I have friends who are struggling with tooth decay in their kids and teachers giving our starburst and all kinds of crap just exacerbates the problem. Did any of you guys have this crap when you were in school? Did you really have candy and bags of plastic garbage from china 25 times per year for every kids’ birthday? It’s totally unnecessary and I believe a symptom of how we self soothe in a period of time where life is unbalanced and awful so we stuff ourselves full of sugar and buy plastic crap from target to try to feel better. Just stop. Get off the wheel.

You know what I never had in school through elementary and high school?
A water bottle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, these responses are shocking to me. Of course there shouldn’t be ice cream available in a school. I bet these are all liberals who think there should be gun control but ice cream is “individual” choice and “teach your kid to do the right thing.”

I teach in DCPS. There are a million things wrong with DCPS but at least ice cream and vending machines selling junk aren’t around.

You have a very peculiar way of thinking.

You sound like you are usually wrong but rarely in doubt.

Your views on this aren’t valid, full stop.

[Anonymous]

When my oldest was in middle school, they and friends often bought cookies for lunch to share as a group. One day they went wild and bought way too many, got silly, felt sick, and never did it again.

Making mistakes is part of growing up, OP. If the worst thing your kid does in middle school is eat a few ice creams, that's not too bad. If you make it a big deal, it will become a thing your kid wants to do even more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, these responses are shocking to me. Of course there shouldn’t be ice cream available in a school. I bet these are all liberals who think there should be gun control but ice cream is “individual” choice and “teach your kid to do the right thing.”

I teach in DCPS. There are a million things wrong with DCPS but at least ice cream and vending machines selling junk aren’t around.

You have a very peculiar way of thinking.

You sound like you are usually wrong but rarely in doubt.

Your views on this aren’t valid, full stop.

I am the PP you quoted. I’m a liberal who thinks the government should intervene to keep people safe and support them in making good choices instead of allowing for individuals to make whatever decisions they want to. I support gun control and not allowing junk in schools. This is actually the Democratic party’s platform.