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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do some schools ask that snacks  not require refrigeration?  Does that mean you can send ice packs for lunch but not snacks?  Why is that?  I haven't heard of this rule.[/quote]

It's for simplification. Snacks for upper grades are usually just to help deal with crappy lunch schedules. The teachers want the snack to take 5-10 minutes between lessons, require little to no setup, and limited clean up. A bag of crackers tucked into a side pocket of a backpack is easy to access and can be opened, eaten, and disposed of in just a few minutes. An insulated snack bag with separate containers of hummus and carrots is more elaborate, more likely to spill, requires the kid keep track of more things, and then takes longer to clean up. There more complicated snacks are, the more likely something is to go wrong, too, and then teachers have to deal with it -- the container of fruit that spilled in the backpack, the tuppeware a kid can't open, the banana that gets smooshed or the kid doesn't want to eat because it went brown in the bag, and so on.

A bag of goldfish crackers will never cause a child a problem. A lot of schools are just trying to mitigate the number of problems they have to solve during the day. Sure, a multi-part snack with guacamole and slices of bell peppers and a piece of dense whole grain bread sounds amazing. In a public school classroom, it's mostly a liability. Serve that after school or stick it in their lunch. Never forget: a bag of goldfish crackers will never cause a child a problem.[/quote]

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