School districts choose which foods to make available in the schools. They should make healthy choices. If I send a treat with my daughter in her lunch box, then that is my decision as a parent.
As far as I can tell from that article, there isn't a policy banning parents from giving their kids sugary snacks in their lunches. It is just centered on the notion that school districts should make sure that the choices that they provide are healthy. That seems like an entirely reasonable balance to me. Judah On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/06/28/retired-general-gets-junk-food-out-of-schools.html?ESRC=eb.nl > > My thoughts are this. If a child is eligible for free or reduced-cost > meals in school, then yes, you can control what they eat in school. > However, if the school offers an a la carte menu as well, and the kid has > the money to buy these items, then they should be free to buy whatever they > want. I mean, if a kid wants to have a cup cake in school, they will either > buy it or bring one from home. > > Now of course I can see the side where you have health conscious parents > who do not allow junk food in their house, and they send their kid to > school and don't want them buying junk food. But the temptation is there > and unless the kid is well disciplined, they just might go ahead and thumb > their nose at their parents and eat a bag of Doritos and wash it down with > a monster. These are the kind of parents that will welcome this decision. > But again, I think that kids should be able to eat whatever they want if > it's offered. I see this as yet another example of lazy parents letting the > school raise their kids. > > It was really nice back in the stone age when I was in school, and all the > school did was educate. They left the raising of the kids to the parents. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:365012 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
