Anonymous wrote:Depending on how long it takes the kids to get to school in the first place, it's a much longer period of time between breakfast at home and lunch at school.

Yes OP, I think it's unreasonable. If I got to work at 8 am and was told I couldn't have anything to eat until 1 pm I'd be pretty unhappy.

I don't see why the kids can't have, for example, pretzels and water at the end of one class, in the class room.

You’re not serious, right? Wow. What is WRONG with you people?

"Snacks make your kids fat!" uh, what??? Why can't the kids have an apple and a cheesestick at 10:30??

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand. I never had snack time in elementary school growing up. Why do kids need to eat so frequently these days?

I’m 45 and we did have snack, at least through 3rd grade. So what does that prove? Whether people who are now adults had snack or didn’t sheds very little light on whether it’s a good idea for kids to have access to snack now. You know what I didn’t have? A car seat after I was 2 years old. But I think it’s a good idea for kids today to have those.

What an idiotic attempt at a comparison.

Your little darlings will survive without cramming food into their mouths every 60/90/180 mins. Pinkie promise.

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Anonymous wrote:Not acceptable. Name the school. I would be having a words with the principal.

This. If it’s published Fact and not fear mongering, put the name here.

I saw the petition but I don’t remember which platform maybe on Nextdoor? I was surprised because that’s a long time to go with no snack.

I went back and looked through Facebook and Nextdoor and I don’t see it so if you saw it, link it. Now I’m going down the rabbit hole to figure this out.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's too long also. Most teachers don't go that long without eating unless they're purposely doing intermittent fasting.

No I didn't have snack time growing up, but I bet I would have concentrated more if I did.

The problem is parents sending in junk. A pack of 6 oreo cookies is not a good snack for kids.

WTF? Of course they do.

Anonymous wrote:Our schools has snacks but I don't think I would care too much if they didn't

People are nuts about snacks these days. I didn't have snacks at school as a kid.

We had snacks in school when I was in 1st grade in 1977. We had the last lunch period. Young kids should have a snack when lunch is at 1. If it’s a concern about allergies or messes, the school can provide a list of acceptable options (my kids’ school did) or they can simply provide it. I have a now college kid who had a problem with low blood sugar. He had to have a snack. I would have asked for him to be able to go down to the office to eat one late-morning if I were faced with this scenario for him.

For small children it's awful. Once they get a little older they don't really miss the snack, but for K-2 this is really too long to go without food.

Anonymous wrote:The trouble with Americans is we are all over fed - and over watered too. There is no evidence even for drinking 8 glasses a day - that's a marketing myth. It will be healthy for your child to learn to go without food for 5 hours.

I am by no means a snack or and neither were my kids, but five hours is a long time and even I am hungry by 1 PM.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter got snack from K-5 at her public elementary school and guess what- she’s not fat, not even close. 50th percentile for height and weight. Give your kids a snack.

It's not about obesity. That's mostly genetic. It is about food discipline - there is no physical need to eat all the time. In fact, anti-aging studies show that eating less often is good for your body in a lot of different ways.

Anti aging is not applicable for children.

+1.

Why don't we apply anti aging studies to babies and feed them 3 times a day?

Anonymous wrote:Depending on how long it takes the kids to get to school in the first place, it's a much longer period of time between breakfast at home and lunch at school.

Yes OP, I think it's unreasonable. If I got to work at 8 am and was told I couldn't have anything to eat until 1 pm I'd be pretty unhappy.

I don't see why the kids can't have, for example, pretzels and water at the end of one class, in the class room.

DP.

While I generally agree with you, it's co.plicated. your kid might pretzels, another might pack a cheese stick, another might back peanut butter bar. The next thing you know they are dealing with mitigating for allergies and soils

I think there is usually some push back when they try to limit snack options to avoid cleaning and situations where a kid with allergies is exposed to something dangerous in class.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter got snack from K-5 at her public elementary school and guess what- she’s not fat, not even close. 50th percentile for height and weight. Give your kids a snack.

It's not about obesity. That's mostly genetic. It is about food discipline - there is no physical need to eat all the time. In fact, anti-aging studies show that eating less often is good for your body in a lot of different ways.

Anti aging is not applicable for children.

Depending on how long it takes the kids to get to school in the first place, it's a much longer period of time between breakfast at home and lunch at school.

Yes OP, I think it's unreasonable. If I got to work at 8 am and was told I couldn't have anything to eat until 1 pm I'd be pretty unhappy.

I don't see why the kids can't have, for example, pretzels and water at the end of one class, in the class room.

My daughter is in 4th grade and I drop her off at 7:45am and her lunch is at 12:30pm. It's a long time, but it's just how the lunch schedules work. Someone has to be last, and in our school it's 4th grade. She's gotten used to it.

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Anonymous wrote:Not acceptable. Name the school. I would be having a words with the principal.

This. If it’s published Fact and not fear mongering, put the name here.

I saw the petition but I don’t remember which platform maybe on Nextdoor? I was surprised because that’s a long time to go with no snack.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter got snack from K-5 at her public elementary school and guess what- she’s not fat, not even close. 50th percentile for height and weight. Give your kids a snack.

It's not about obesity. That's mostly genetic. It is about food discipline - there is no physical need to eat all the time. In fact, anti-aging studies show that eating less often is good for your body in a lot of different ways.