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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be blunt, I do not want my kid to be able to access any food at school that I didn’t send in lunch money for, unless school lunches start looking like Finland’s.

That means I don’t want my kid to be able to go up to the school lunch line and say “I forgot my lunch money,” and then be handed some junk without my knowledge.[/quote]

Oh well. Bummer for you.[/quote]

Well no, I moved my kid to private where they don’t serve garbage.[/quote]

Or you could have just made their food yourself and told your kid not to get junk from the lunch line.  I can count on one hand the amount of times my kids have eaten anything from the school cafeteria--they have zero interest in it.[/quote]

That’s fine on an individual level but it doesn’t help anyone else. Kids who can’t afford lunch or whose parents can’t send it should not have to eat unhealthy crap every day.[/quote]

+1, and it doesn't address the issue of schools just being awash in junk food, well beyond the cafeteria offerings. When the school has no policy on junk food, and when a lot of teachers use candy and junk food as rewards, it wouldn't matter if the kids were being served Michelin starred vegan health food at lunch, the kids are learning all kinds of unhealthy things about food.

That's the issue. It's not about money. It's about the fact that a lot of people in education think there should be no limits on screens or the kinds of foods kids are given. They want to be able to default to the easiest possible option when it suits them.

Having rules like "no tablets/phones" and "no food rewards" and "no candy/junk except on designated days (Halloween, last day of term, whatever you want the exceptions to be" teach kids about moderation and limits. Public schools don't have to become Montessori or Waldorf schools where none of this stuff is allowed -- if people want that they can pay for Montessori or Waldorf. But that doesn't mean that public schools should just abandon their responsibility to help kids learn that excess screen time and high-calorie, high-sugar, highly process junk foods are really bad for their health.[/quote]

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