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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do it or don’t do it, but please don’t email the teacher or admin about it. Early elementary teachers get soooooo many emails about the dumbest things. Here are some of my emails from this week:
[b]“My kid isn’t allowed chocolate milk.”[/b]
“My kid is going to ride the bus/walk/go to aftercare.” X50 (We need to know but there are just so emails!!!)
“I think my kid has X disability.” (Very important! Almost lost among the chocolate milk emails.)
“Can you send a link to the movement break videos so I can review?”

Just please, please, please chill with the emails the first month unless it matters.[/quote]

A lot of parents don't want their kids of any grade level drinking it. What do you suggest parents do to keep their kids from grabbing it and drinking it? Given how many parents complain about it, how can parents convince the school to stop making it available?[/quote]

I guess you are the mom(s) who sent me this email! Haha

If you don’t want your kid to eat something, tell them. I cannot monitor their drink consumption at lunch. I’m not even in the room![/quote]

"Larlo, please don't drink the chocolate milk at school." 
"OK, Mom."
Proceeds to drink chocolate milk at school.[/quote]

NP so instead you want to the lunch monitors to know the food preferences of 50 kids? Or the teacher, who also needs to eat their lunch, to know the food requests of 20 kids and monitor it at all times? That’s a ridiculous request and just not going to happen.

Also I know lots of kindergartners.  Even they know what their parents do or don’t want them to eat, including being careful about allergies.[/quote]

No, we want the school to stop offering sugary crap to children who haven’t developed self control yet.[/quote]

+100

Some little kids will do as their parents ask, some will just plain forget, and some will sneak it because the sugar is **addictive**. Schools have a responsibility to not make this available to the younger kids who can't help themselves. I think 2nd grade and up it is reasonable to expect a child to make good choices. Pre-K through 1st, they need adults around them to keep the sugar out of reach. We are not asking for much.[/quote]

Chocolate milk doesn’t even begin to cover what’s wrong with school provided food. I worked in a school and the breakfasts were terrible. Sugary cereal with lofat milk, sugary yogurt, sweet buns, sugary muffins, fruit, and the most nutritious non-sugary food you could hope for was powdered eggs reheated.

But even this school junk is the best and sometimes only food some of our kids are getting. I just don’t know why we can’t spend more than $1 or whatever per kid to feed them. [/quote]

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