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[quote=Anonymous]Several elementary schools are offering free breakfast within the classroom and more will start soon.
The problem I have with it is that many of the breakfasts are junk food - chocolate milk and juice are drink options, and entrees include cinnamon buns, French toast sticks, pancakes and "panwiches" (syrupy pancake rolls with processed chicken sausage inside). I don't want my elementary school kid eating this stuff. How can a kid who is totally sugared up sit still and focus on school?
This food is especially bad for the littlest kids.
Can schools either opt out totally of these wonderful free breakfasts, or substitute cereal for the worst offenses? I know they offer cereal as an option on the side but I'm thinking it'd be better if the whole school was served cereal instead of forcing a kid to choose to be the only kid in class to give up a sticky-sweet cinnamon roll.
It's not as if the cereal is great - it seems like the choices are things like Frosted Flakes instead of plain Cheerios - but it's got to be better than a "panwich."
And can the school decide they won't serve chocolate milk at breakfast, only regular milk? 
If they weren't giving it to kids in the classroom, I wouldn't fuss but they throw this junk right in their faces.
If anyone knows the rules about what kind of control individual schools have over what they give kids, I'd be interested.[/quote]

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