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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid, but the teacher's classroom.

Certain things are not allowed in her classroom, and the parents should respect that. It's always going to be a gray area, and there will always be disagreement, but saying no junk food allowed in the classroom is perfectly reasonable.

This is not coming from an anti-junk food, crazed organic person perspective--I actually do like Fritos.[/quote]

The problem with any bans on food is how do you define good from bad? I can see if a school banned soda and candy but even that line can get blurry. Are 100% carbonated juice drinks allowed? Do yogurt covered pretzels count as candy? How do you define "junk food"? White bread often has more sugar than candy - is white bread OK? Are pretzels healthier than corn chips? What if those chips are they kind with lots of sprouted seeds and omega-3s? It starts to get a bit silly and judgmental.

Also, it is one thing if the school has a policy but I don't see why a teacher gets to make such a policy and gets to be food police. Maybe if that teacher is also a licensed nutritionist it would be a different story...
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Right. Sometime I pack corn with a little butter and salt as my son's vegetable serving. How is that substantially different than Fritos, which are corn, corn oil, and salt? Is the teacher going to stop him from eating it?[/quote]

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